Codepit.

What it is

Run several coding agents in parallel and each one ends up in its own OS window. Switching between them is friction. You lose track of which agent needs you, and past two or three the window-juggling costs more than it saves. Codepit puts your whole agent fleet on one screen and tells you when a pane wants your attention.

Every pane is a real shell with a real PTY (ConPTY via node-pty), so anything that runs in PowerShell runs here, including subscription CLIs that log in through their own browser OAuth flow. No API keys, no wrappers. It is the same terminal architecture behind VS Code's integrated terminal, Hyper and Tabby, with a React shell on top.

I built it for my own work. I run systematic trading research through coding agents, and a normal day has a research agent, a backtest run and a git pane going at once. Codepit is the desk I wanted for that: dark, monospaced, keyboard-first, with colour reserved for state. It is a general developer tool, so it suits any workflow where you run several agents at once.

How you use it

Download the installer, run it, and you are in. From there the loop is simple.

1. Open a workspace and spawn panes. Each pane is a real terminal. Split it horizontally or vertically, resize the gutters, rename it, and pick the shell you want per pane: pwsh, Windows PowerShell, cmd, WSL or Git Bash.
2. Launch your agents. Start claude, codex or anything else straight in a pane. Subscription CLIs log in through their own browser flow, so Codepit never touches your keys.
3. Type, paste or dictate. Copy and paste behave as they do in any terminal, so dropping a command or a whole block of prompt text into a pane is quick. Voice dictation tools also land text into a Codepit pane more reliably than into a raw PowerShell or terminal window, which helps a lot if you drive your agents by voice.
4. Read the grid at a glance. Each pane carries a colour-coded border and badge for its state, and the status bar tallies the fleet: how many are idle, working, waiting and in error.
5. Let notifications pull you back. When an unfocused pane finishes or asks a question, Windows tells you, so you are not forced to watch every pane.
6. Watch the work in the dock. The IDE panel on the right shows the active workspace's file tree and live git changes while your agents edit. You watch; the agents do the editing.
7. Close and come back. Named workspaces save their layouts. Reopen Codepit and your terminals, layouts and working directories are restored.

The functions

Everything below ships in the current release. Colour is reserved for state, the layout is dense, and the whole thing is built to be driven from the keyboard.

Install

Download the latest installer from GitHub Releases and run it. Codepit is a Windows, x64 desktop app.

Build from source

Requires Node.js 20 or later on Windows. No C++ toolchain is needed: node-pty ships prebuilt Windows binaries.

git clone https://github.com/KDuffDev/codepit.git
cd codepit
npm install
npm run dev          # run in development
npm run dist:win     # build the Windows installer into dist/

Contributions are welcome. Issues and pull requests go through the GitHub repository, and contributions are licensed under Apache-2.0.

What's next

Early days, and Windows-only. Expect rough edges and breaking changes between releases. These are the pieces I am building next, deferred deliberately to keep the first public release focused.

• Command broadcast: type once, send to several panes at once.
• Agent orchestration: Planner, Builder and Reviewer handoff chains between panes.
• A real git diff view and syntax highlighting inside the IDE dock.

Notes

Codepit is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. The Codepit name and logo are the project's brand and are not covered by the code licence.