The IDE that understands AI agents.
Run parallel agents on isolated branches with full observability.

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You're running Claude Code in one terminal, Aider in another, Codex in a third. One hit a rate limit 10 minutes ago and you didn't notice. Another is waiting for a Y/N confirmation. You switch between windows and still lose track.

The more sessions you run, the worse it gets. The tooling doesn't understand what's happening inside the terminal.

TUICommander is an AI-native IDE — designed from the ground up for multi-agent development. Agents, code, diffs, PRs, CI status, and usage analytics live in one window. No context switching. No lost threads.

AI-native means the agents are not an afterthought. Rate limit detection, question recognition, session-aware resume, and usage tracking are core — not plugins.

Launch Claude Code on five branches at once — or mix agents. Each session runs in its own Git worktree — no context collision, no stash conflicts, no "which terminal was that?" moments.

• Up to 50 terminal sessions running simultaneously
• Each session works on its own isolated copy of the repo
• Activity dashboard showing every session at a glance

TUICommander auto-detects 10 AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex CLI, Aider, Gemini CLI, Amp, Cursor Agent, OpenCode, Warp Oz, Droid, Goose) and understands what they're doing:

• Rate limit detection — Provider-specific patterns with countdown timers per session.
• Question detection — Y/N prompts, numbered options, inquirer-style menus. Tab indicator, notification sound, keyboard overlay.
• Usage tracking — Claude Code weekly/session limits with color-coded thresholds. Full Claude Usage Dashboard with rate limit bars, 7-day chart, 52-week heatmap, per-project breakdown.
• Activity dashboard — Every session at a glance: agent type, status (working / waiting / rate-limited / idle), last activity.
• Session-aware resume — Auto-discovers agent session IDs from disk (Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI). Resume exactly where you left off.

No other tool knows that your agent is stuck.

Click a branch in the sidebar. TUICommander auto-creates a git worktree — a fully isolated copy of the repo. The terminal opens inside it. Switch to another branch: your previous terminals are preserved. Switch back: they're exactly as you left them.

• Automatic worktree creation on branch click
• Worktree Manager — PR status, dirty file counts, last commit at a glance
• Post-merge cleanup dialog — delete branch, archive worktree in one click
• Configurable base branch, setup scripts, auto-fetch intervals

The feedback loop happens in the same window:

• Git Panel — Staging, inline commit, blame with age heatmap, canvas commit graph, stashes, branches with ahead/behind counts.
• Diff views — Side-by-side, unified, or scroll-all-files. Word-level highlighting, hunk and line-level restore.
• PR management — Merge via GitHub API with auto-detected merge method. Post-merge cleanup.
• GitHub Issues — Filter by assigned/created/mentioned, labels with colors, close/reopen.
• CI Auto-Heal — When CI fails, TUICommander fetches failure logs and injects them into the agent for automatic fix.
• Built-in code editor — CodeMirror 6 with syntax highlighting, find/replace, disk conflict detection.
• File browser — Directory tree, content search (grep), git status indicators.

A conversational AI companion that sees your terminal as you see it. Ask about errors, get code suggestions, or let the autonomous agent take the wheel and drive your terminal directly.

• Multi-provider: Ollama (local, free), Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, or any compatible endpoint
• Autonomous AI Agent (ReAct loop) with 12 tools: read screen, send input, edit files, search code, run commands
• Session knowledge: the agent learns from your terminal history — commands, errors, fix patterns
• Live cost tracking: prompt/completion tokens and estimated cost per turn
• Per-terminal chat state, conversation history, detachable panel for multi-monitor

Aggregate all your MCP servers into a single endpoint. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code — each agent connects once and gets access to every upstream tool.

• Auto-configures Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, VS Code, Zed, Amp, Gemini
• Circuit breakers, health checks, hot-reload per upstream
• Credential management via OS keyring, OAuth 2.1 support
• Tool filtering: whitelist or blacklist per upstream server

A mobile companion PWA lets you monitor agents from your phone, answer questions with one tap, and track rate limits in real time.

• QR code scan for instant LAN connection
• Tailscale auto-HTTPS or E2E-encrypted cloud relay — no VPN or port forwarding
• Live WebSocket output, suggest follow-up chips, slash menu

Agent Teams — Claude Code's sub-agents run as native TUICommander tabs instead of tmux panes. Full session awareness, output parsing, and question detection for each sub-agent.

Inter-agent messaging — When multiple agents work in parallel, they discover peers, send messages, and receive push notifications through TUICommander as the coordination hub.

30 built-in Smart Prompts turn common tasks into one-click operations: Smart Commit, Review Changes, Create PR, Fix CI, and more. Context variables like branch, diff, and PR data are resolved automatically.

• Inject mode (PTY write), headless mode (subprocess), or shell script mode (direct execution)
• 31 context variables auto-resolved from git, GitHub, and terminal state
• Create your own prompts with the same variable system

On-device speech-to-text powered by whisper-rs. No cloud service, no API keys, no data leaving your machine.

• GPU-accelerated on macOS (Metal), CPU fallback on Windows/Linux
• Push-to-talk hotkey — text injected into the active terminal
• 5 model sizes from tiny (75 MB) to large-v3-turbo (1.6 GB)

Plugin system — Obsidian-style plugins with hot reload and a community registry:

• 5 capability tiers from read-only watchers to scoped Tauri invoke
• TUIC SDK v1.0: tuic.activeRepo, tuic.toast, tuic.onRepoChange and more
• Terminal output watchers with regex triggers
• Status bar tickers, custom panels, notification contributions
• Browse and install with one click

Plugin Authoring Guide →

Full feature reference: docs/FEATURES.md

Download the latest release — macOS builds are signed and notarized.

Install via terminal:

# macOS (Homebrew)
brew install sstraus/tap/tuicommander

# macOS / Linux (shell)
curl -fsSL https://tuicommander.com/install.sh | sh

# Windows (PowerShell)
irm https://tuicommander.com/install.ps1 | iex

Want the bleeding edge? The Nightly is rebuilt on every push to main.

npm install
npm run tauri dev      # Development with hot reload
npm run tauri build    # Production build
npm test               # Run tests

Rust + Tauri v2 backend, SolidJS UI, native terminal via alacritty_terminal + canvas rendering, CodeMirror 6 editor, whisper-rs dictation, Vite + LightningCSS build. ~80 MB RAM.

Apache 2.0 licensed. Zero telemetry. Runs locally.
Follow the releases — new features land weekly.

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