Getting Started

Manifold is a macOS desktop app for running AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and Ollama-backed runtimes — side by side on the same codebase.

Each agent can get its own git worktree (a separate checkout on a dedicated branch) when you want isolation, so multiple agents work the same repo without branch conflicts. Agents run in real terminals, not wrapper UIs, so you read and steer their output directly. Around the terminals, Manifold adds the workspace tools you expect: code browsing, diffs, shell tabs, search, previews, commits, and pull requests.

When to use Manifold

  • You want to run several agents in parallel on one repository without them stepping on each other.
  • You want to see and steer what an agent is doing in a real terminal.
  • You want a single workspace for diffs, search, previews, commits, and pull requests around your agents.
  • You want to run one agent across multiple repositories at once.

Highlights

  • Run multiple agents in parallel on one repository without branch collisions.
  • Use the full agent terminal directly, with live streaming output and manual input at any time.
  • Group several repositories into a Workspace and run one agent across all of them.
  • Launch work on a new branch, the current branch, an existing branch, or an open pull request.
  • Run automated Loop cycles that prompt, evaluate, and commit on improvement or revert on regression.
  • Review changes with diffs, a file tree, split editors, shell tabs, and embedded localhost previews.
  • Search code, file names, or captured session memory — with an optional AI mode.
  • Keep project state, chat history, dock layout, open files, and shell tabs across restarts.

Next steps