Pattern: Agent Cowork Platforms Converge — AionUI, Claude Cowork, and OpenWork All Ship Multi-Agent Desktops

Multiple (AionUI, OpenWork, Anthropic)·medium signal

Three independent projects now offer single-interface orchestration of multiple CLI coding agents: AionUI (25.5K stars, auto-detects 20+ agents), Anthropic's Claude Cowork (built into Claude Code), and different-ai's OpenWork (open-source alternative powered by OpenCode). The convergence pattern: developers run 3-5 coding agents daily and need unified tool config, shared context, and side-by-side comparison. The Rust backend rewrite in AionUI signals these platforms are moving from prototypes to infrastructure.