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Project Coldfall

**A terminal-first console for running several long-lived AI agents, across several vendors, without losing track of what it costs.**

macOS · Swift · early, but it runs

[](https://github.com/anthonyproctor/project-coldfall/actions/workflows/ci.yml)

The two L's are pipes. In a shell, `|` feeds one program's output into the next — which is what the bridge does between desks. You type it as `coldfall`; a pipe cannot appear in a command name.

*Previously named Deskwork. The rename was forced by a live 1989 trademark on "Deskworks" in the same software class. Existing installs migrate automatically on first launch — see [the migration notes](#renamed-from-deskwork).*

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The idea

Every coding tool picks one of two units of work. VS Code and its descendants treat the **file** as the unit. Zed's agent panel, Copilot and Cursor treat the **thread** as the unit — a conversation starts, does a job, gets thrown away.

Once you have been living in this stuff for a few months, neither fits. You stop having conversations and start keeping **specialists**: one for your infrastructure, one for a particular client, one for your notes. Each has its own system prompt, its own memory on disk, its own pinned model. The session is disposable. The specialist is not — it has been accumulating judgement for months, and you don't re-explain your situation to it.

Project Coldfall calls one of those a **desk**, and makes the desk the unit.

What it does

**Desks, not threads.** Each desk owns one or more long-lived terminals running the vendor's own CLI. Switching desks swaps which terminal is visible; the rest keep running. Come back an hour later and it is mid-thought where you left it.

**It never reimplements an agent.** Project Coldfall launches `claude`, `codex`, `gemini` or `c