Introducing BetterC0de: every coding agent, one desktop workspace

Today we are opening the BetterC0de beta. It is a free desktop app for people who already use AI coding agents and are tired of juggling four terminals, four permission dialogs and four ways of reviewing a diff.

Download it now for Windows or macOS. Linux is next.

The problem

If you code with agents in 2026 you probably have more than one. Claude Code for the deep refactor, Codex for the test suite, Cursor's agent because it is already in your editor, Grok because someone on your team swears by it. Each one is a separate CLI with its own window, its own way of asking "may I run this?", its own idea of what changed.

The models are great. The workspace around them is not.

What BetterC0de does

BetterC0de puts the coding CLIs you already have behind one editor, one chat, one terminal and one set of permissions:

• Bring your own CLI. It detects claude, codex, cursor-agent and grok on your machine and uses your existing login. No API key, no account, nothing proxied through our servers.
• Agents side by side. Every conversation picks its own provider. Run several at once on the same repository — with worktrees when they need to change code in parallel.
• One permission layer. Every file write and shell command from any agent shows up as the same inline request. Allow once, allow for the session, or deny.
• Review before it lands. Diff and Git views, plus a live preview for web projects with element selection you can send straight back to the agent.
• Three views. Editor when files matter, Agent when conversations matter, Canvas when you want projects and previews on one surface.

What it is not

It is not another model, another subscription or another place your code goes. Prompts travel straight from your machine to the vendor you picked. Our servers see an anonymous heartbeat so we can count active users, and a crash report if the app breaks. That is the full list.

Open source at the end of September

The source lands on GitHub at the end of the month. Until then the repo holds the docs, and the beta ships as installers only.

Try it

1. Download and run the installer (beta builds are unsigned — click through SmartScreen / Gatekeeper).
2. Open Settings → Providers; whatever CLI you are signed into is already there.
3. Open a repo, pick a view, give the first agent a task.

Then tell us what broke on Discord. This is a beta and we want the rough edges.