Episko

Episko


**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