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Open-source interface for running coding agents from phone, desktop, web, and CLI. Supports multiple providers, runs locally on your own machine, and includes a daemon plus client apps.

A native macOS Markdown viewer that renders GitHub-flavored and Obsidian-style Markdown in a lightweight app with CLI, drag-and-drop, file association, math, Mermaid diagrams, and frontmatter support.

Tessera is a workspace for organizing AI coding sessions across projects, collections, tabs, panes, and Git worktrees. It supports Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, with demos for Kanban-style task flow, worktree tracking, tool logs, diffs, and cross-platform runtimes.

Blume Sidecar is a desktop companion for managing coding agents across tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex. It tracks agent activity, monitors rules and hidden files, shows usage limits, and suggests fixes when instructions drift from chat context.

Crew is a local-first collaborative IDE for people and AI agents to work together on projects. It supports multiple agents at once, shared threads, project folders, token tracking, and built-in browser tools like terminal, files, preview, web, and review.

Abralo is a native desktop app for running multiple Claude Code agents at once in one window. It focuses on keeping several agents visible, showing token usage, and surfacing when an agent needs attention.

Athena is a local desktop control room for AI coding agents. It combines embedded terminals, session history, shared project context, recall handoffs, and MCP-based control for tools like Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code, and Hermes.

Bb is an agentic IDE that can control itself, with a desktop app, CLI, web app, and HTTP API for orchestrating coding agents and running work in live threads.

Local-first private planning and decision workspace that turns messy documents into structured plans, grounded outputs, and traceable decisions with citations and audit trails.

Open Science is an open-source AI workbench for scientists. It combines literature, code, figures, reports, and review into a local-first desktop workflow with model choice, reproducible artifacts, and scientific agent skills.

Modular desktop IDE built for agentic coding, with dockable panels, an MCP sidecar, plugin support, and built-in tooling for debugging, verification, memory, and secrets handling.

Local-first memory layer for coding agents with an MCP server, CLI, and desktop console for durable project context, handoffs, and recall across sessions.

PileaX is a local-first AI knowledge base that combines AI chat, smart notes, and e-book reading/management in one product. The repo shows desktop and Docker-based deployment options, a Notion-style editor, and an AI-agent angle for managing knowledge and reading workflows.

Herd is a lightweight desktop IDE for coordinating multiple AI coding agents at once. It supports parallel tasks, real-time status monitoring, and works with tools like Claude Code and Codex on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Harness is an open-source app for running a team of AI agents, with support for Claude, browser control, mobile access, and a headless server mode for remote use.

Open-source desktop SSH client with terminal sessions, SFTP, port forwarding, jump hosts, key vault, and an optional MCP bridge for AI agent access.

A paid desktop utility that launches separate, isolated Claude desktop app windows for multiple accounts on macOS and Windows.

Mission-control desktop app for running AI coding agents in parallel across Git worktrees, with inline code review, session isolation, and support for tools like Claude and Codex.

A cross-platform desktop app that turns raw screenshots into polished visual assets, with local privacy redaction, OCR, and an AI bug agent for reports.

Desktop app for orchestrating crews of local coding agents like Claude Code and Codex in one workspace.

Windows desktop client for DeepSeek Harness that wraps the official web UI into a native app with installer, tray integration, built-in browser, and terminal support.

A blog post describing Annex, a local-AI security tool that encrypts selected files during agent sessions to keep sensitive data away from local AI tools. The post explains the threat model, encryption flow, and the stack used to build it.

Figmaboy is a local-first desktop design workspace with Codex CLI built into the canvas. It combines design, review, and command-line actions in one app, with offline saved designs and MCP-based context sharing.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT desktop app docs page for using the app with projects, files, and long-running work, with broader developer documentation around Codex, agents, tools, and related workflows.