For developers running many agents at once

Organize your agents. Orchestrate the work.

Hydradeck keeps every coding agent in its project and branch, shows you the few that need you, and moves work through agents on pipelines you design. It all runs on the host, so it carries on while you're away.

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A simplified copy of the window, running live.

Organize

Every agent in its place, and the ones that need you on top.

Each workspace is a project folder or worktree with its own tabs and agents. Their status rolls up to the workspace and the title bar, so with a dozen agents across five projects you still see the two waiting on you, and jump straight to them.

Needs you

Asking a question or waiting for permission. Counted first, everywhere.

Working

Leave it alone. Hide its tab and it keeps reporting.

Done

Finished, with something for you to look at.

Idle

Open and waiting for its next prompt.

Orchestrate

Hand agents a list of work and let it run.

A board is your process as lists: investigate, agree on a plan, build, review. Each list does its job to every card that reaches it, with as many agents at once as you allow, then passes the card on. Work keeps moving with the app closed.

You step in only where you're needed. A card that has a question shows it, and you answer on the card. Each list's job is a workflow you draw on a canvas, with agents, scripts, branches, loops and steps that wait for you.

A simplified copy of the Board pane, running live.

Always running

Close the laptop. Your agents keep going.

Your terminals run on the host, not in the app. Disconnect, switch computers or restart Hydradeck, and every workspace, tab and screen is where you left it.

Even if the host reboots, your tabs come back in the same folders and Claude Code agents pick up their sessions.

3 agents working on build-01
Laptop closed · connection dropped
Agents keep running · 2 finish, 1 asks a question
Reconnect from the desktop · every screen as it was
Title bar: 1 needs you, 2 done
Also built in

Everything around the agents.

Agents that use the deck

Through Hydradeck's MCP server, agents open diffs for you to review, start terminals, and build and run workflows themselves. You decide what each may do without asking.

Rules and skills, once

Write them once in Hydradeck, for everywhere or one project, and every agent gets them. Each skill also becomes a slash command.

Git in the sidebar

Every workspace shows its branch, worktrees and changes. Review diffs, commit, push and pull without leaving the deck.

The Vault

Notes, snippets and documents for one project or all of them. Agents keep their work here too.

Local or any SSH host

Nothing to install on the host.

  1. Pick a host

    Your own machine, or any host in your ~/.ssh/config. On Windows, your own machine means WSL.

  2. Hydradeck sets itself up

    It installs what it needs in ~/.hydradeck on the host and keeps it up to date. Nothing system-wide, and no root.

  3. One SSH connection

    Everything goes over a single connection with your usual keys. There are no ports to open.

Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and GitHub Copilot CLI. Hosts can run Linux (glibc 2.28 or newer) or macOS, on x64 or arm64.

Download

Get Hydradeck.

Install it on the computer you work from. The hosts need nothing.

WindowsUpdates itself. Without WSL, it connects to SSH hosts only.
macOSmacOS 13 or newer. Apple silicon is any Mac with an M chip.
Linuxx64. The AppImage updates itself.

Version 0.30.0 · all releases and notes

First launch

The builds aren't code-signed yet. On Windows, choose More info → Run anyway when SmartScreen warns. On macOS, right-click the app in Applications and choose Open.