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Episko — Development skill for Claude Code

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A lightweight app for claude code cli agent organization in Rust.

How to install Episko

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

What Episko does

A lightweight app for claude code cli agent organization in Rust.

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README

Episko

![Episko: parallel coding-agent sessions, each in its own terminal, with live telemetry](docs/shot-cockpit.png)

**Run a whole flock of coding-agent sessions at once.** Episko is a native desktop app that gives every agent its own real terminal and, for integrated providers, streams back phase, model, context use, usage, approvals and live activity so a dozen agents are as easy to mind as one chat. Claude Code and Codex are first-class providers; other installed CLIs use the same pane with a terminal-only adapter.

**[episko.dev](https://episko.dev)** · [Download](https://github.com/respeak-io/episko/releases/latest) · macOS + Windows · free and open source

**Status: early, but in daily use.** Episko began as a Phase-0 spike (see [`SPIKE.md`](./SPIKE.md)) proving the two risky pieces: embedding a real terminal and instrumenting Claude Code per launch. It has grown well past that. Expect rough edges and fast-moving internals.

What it does

Every session in one view. A sidebar of projects and their sessions, each with a status glyph and context %, sorted so whatever needs you floats up. Sessions that need a decision are called out in the header and the tray. Projects can be grouped under your own headings (Work, Side) and a group folds to one line that still carries the most urgent glyph it hides.
Real terminals all the way down. Each session is a genuine PTY running the provider's actual TUI: type into it, watch it think. Claude can render embedded (xterm.js) or in Ghostty, Terminal.app or iTerm2; Codex currently stays embedded so its App Server connection remains attached. Plain shell panes too, for when you just need a prompt next to an agent.
Answer permission prompts in-app. When Claude or Codex asks to run something, Episko surfaces the command with a risk read and lets you allow, deny, or drop into the terminal, instead of hunting for which window is blocked. Starting permission/sandbox policy is st