alethe-agents
A local-first desktop workspace for running, organizing, and resuming multiple coding agents and shells with real PTYs, split panes, persistent layouts, and
What is alethe-agents?
A local-first desktop workspace for running, organizing, and resuming multiple coding agents and shells with real PTYs, split panes, persistent layouts, and local session history.
Overview of alethe-agents
What it is
Alethe is a local-first desktop workspace for running, organizing, and resuming multiple coding agents and shells side by side. It is built with Tauri, Rust, React, and xterm.js. Every agent runs in a real PTY inside a persistent project layout, keeps its own session and history, and stays alive when the UI is rearranged. The application is cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux).
Key features
- Run multiple agents in parallel: projects, groups, and subgroups organize repositories; each open project becomes a container with its own panes. One agent per pane, or several agents as sub-tabs inside the same pane.
- Resume sessions after a crash or restart for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode. Recent chats lists the conversations of a pane's working directory and reopens any of them.
- Hand off a Claude Code conversation to Codex (and back) through a locally redacted context packet — no copy-pasting the thread manually.
- Manage shared MCP servers across agents: add, remove, copy a server from one agent to another, search the official registry, and ask each agent to verify reachability.
- Plugin system: features load as plugins. Official plugins (Todo List, Git Control, Theme Pack) ship inside the installer. A plugin can contribute a workspace pane, a sidebar tab, a command palette entry, a full theme, or a new agent provider.
- Git panel per project with status, stage, commit, branches, diffs, and worktrees. Pull Request review integrates with local gh CLI.
Use cases
Alethe is designed for developers who need to work with multiple coding agents across several repositories simultaneously. It suits tasks such as debugging across codebases, running parallel agent sessions for code review, managing MCP server configurations shared between agents, and orchestrating complex workflows where a lead agent delegates work units to other agents. It also supports plain shell terminals in the same pane model.
Getting started
See the repository README for installation instructions.
License and pricing
Licensed under AGPL-3.0. The desktop app is free and open source.
Based on the project's public README and repository metadata.
