spyc

The file commander built for collaborating with your coding agents.

Keyboard-driven · MCP-native · Rust · macOS and Linux

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Why spyc?

Put an AI coding agent in your terminal and you get a chat window. You still describe your working tree to it, paste paths back and forth, and lose track of what it's looking at.

spyc runs the agent in a pane beside a keyboard-driven file commander and gives it live, structured access to what you're looking at over a local MCP socket. The agent asks spyc *what is the cursor on, what is staged, what is picked* — no copy-paste, no path description. Pick three files, ask a question, and it sees your selection. When it names a path in its answer, `gf` jumps you there.

Sharing a terminal with an agent usually means sharing a *screen* — cells and scrollback for it to scrape. What spyc shares is the working set: cursor, picks, filter, branch, worktree, as structured state it can query. The file manager