Hi, I’m Bilal.

I’ve been writing software for about two decades. In my off-hours I build free apps for nonprofits and my community, and the occasional tool I want for myself.

sous is one of those tools. AI made it easy to keep ten or twenty projects moving at once; keeping track of them was the hard part. Which one has a review waiting for me? Where did I leave off in this one? What did I promise to come back to?

So sous puts that work in one list, and shows it where I already look: a new terminal, the start of an agent session, a page in the browser. The work stays in git and the tools the project already uses. sous also keeps the reasoning: decisions and handoffs with their sources, and efforts that connect work across projects.

It’s a sibling of shellbell, which brings a terminal to you when it needs attention. I build and maintain both on my own, alongside my other work. The code is open so you can read it, run it, and write the plugin your work needs.