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botctl: A Process Manager CLI for Autonomous AI Agents

Published 2026-04-09Agentic AIMedium

Summary

botctl is a new open-source tool that provides a process manager specifically designed for autonomous AI agents. It offers a unified CLI for running, monitoring, and managing multiple AI agent bots simultaneously, featuring a terminal dashboard, web UI, declarative configuration, and session management. The tool draws inspiration from traditional process managers like pm2 and supervisord but is purpose-built for the emerging pattern of running multiple autonomous AI agents in parallel. The tool

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