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Astera — Communication skill for Claude Code

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Desktop app for running and orchestrating many Claude Code and Codex sessions — account rolling on usage limits, git worktree isolation, and Slack remote control.

How to install Astera

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open parsingk/Astera and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Astera does

Desktop app for running and orchestrating many Claude Code and Codex sessions — account rolling on usage limits, git worktree isolation, and Slack remote control.

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README

Astera — build beyond the stars

**Keep Claude Code and Codex working while you are away.**

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[Download](#install) · [What it does](#what-it-does) · [Jobs](#jobs) · [Documentation](#documentation) · [Report a bug](https://github.com/parsingk/Astera/issues/new)

**English** · [한국어](README.ko.md) · [日本語](README.ja.md) · [Español](README.es.md)

Astera running four sessions in one window as a 2x2 grid — three Claude Code and one Codex, on two Claude accounts and a Codex one — with the accounts and the project history in the sidebar

Astera is a desktop workbench for long-running Claude Code and Codex work. Keep several sessions moving without staying at the desk: schedule them, switch accounts when a usage limit lands, and resume the same work. Concurrent sessions stay isolated in their own git worktrees, and Slack keeps the loop open from your phone. When the work has dependencies, a Job coordinates tasks across both vendors, checks the result, and waits when a human decision is needed.

**Status:** Windows, macOS and Linux. It drives the `claude` and `codex` CLIs, so it is only as capable as whichever of those you have installed.

What it does

**Project workspaces**

  • Many claude / codex sessions in one window, as tabs and as split panes
  • A terminal per project

**Accounts**

  • Several accounts per vendor, each isolated through its own CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR / CODEX_HOME
  • **Acco