A small workspace for coding agents.

Skiff keeps agent sessions organized across projects and Git worktrees.

Editing and previews stay in the apps you already use.

Latest release · Linux x86_64 · macOS Apple Silicon · MIT license

Skiff mascot: a small boat with a robot at the helm

v1.2.0The skiff CLI. Claude Code starts two groups of four agents, gives each pane its own theme and asks them all for a sea shanty.

Skiff on Linux: the session theme picker, which gives one session its own theme in place of the project theme — v1.0.1Give one session its own theme. It replaces the project theme for that pane only.

Skiff on Linux: a project with its session group, changed files and file tree in the sidebar, and three agent sessions side by side — v1.0.0One project, one group, three agents side by side. The flag marks the session that finished.

Skiff on Linux: changed files and the file tree in the sidebar, and Claude Code, Codex and Antigravity in a one left, two right group — v0.6.1Changed files and the file tree in the sidebar. Three agents in a one left, two right group.

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How it works

Add a project (a Git repository), make worktrees in it, and start agent or shell sessions in each worktree. Sessions sit side by side in named groups. Close the window and the agents keep running.

Sessions outlive the window

A daemon, skiffd, owns every terminal. Close the window and the agents keep working. Open it again and each terminal shows its last screen.

See what needs a look

Each session shows when it waits for you, works or finishes. A finished session gets an unread flag until you go to it.

Projects and worktrees

Sessions sit under the project and worktree they run in. If an agent goes to work in another worktree, the sidebar shows it there too.

Groups and layouts

Put related sessions in a named group and split them side by side. Drag a pane by its header to move it.

Themes as location cues

Give each project and group its own terminal theme. One look tells you where you are.

Changes, not an editor

Each worktree lists its changed files. A double-click shows the diff. Files open in the apps you pick under Settings › Open with.

Agents

Skiff comes with these agents in Settings. Add any other command line, or start a plain shell. See how Skiff works with Claude Code and Codex.

claudecodexgeminigrokopencodeshell+ your own

Small on purpose

Skiff has no plugins, no automations and no hooks into agent configs. It writes nothing into an agent's setup. Settings live in one file, projects.toml. The keyboard and the mouse do the same things, and F1 shows every key.

Install

Skiff ships as .deb, .rpm and AppImage for Linux x86_64, and as a signed .dmg for macOS on Apple Silicon. Go to the downloads.