Welcome to ADE

ADE is a local-first desktop app for coordinating AI coding agents across lanes, chats, terminals, PRs, and mobile.

ADE is the control plane for agentic development on your Mac. It does not replace your editor or GitHub. It sits around them so you can run several coding agents at once, keep their work isolated, and review the results with a clear record of what happened.

Work in lanes

Put each task in its own git worktree so agents do not collide with your main checkout or each other.

Talk to agents

Start lane-scoped chats with Claude, Codex, Cursor, or OpenCode and let agents edit, test, commit, and explain.

Review before merge

Use Files, PRs, Graph, and History to inspect diffs, CI, conflicts, proof, and session transcripts.

The usual loop

1. Open a repository

   ADE creates local project state under .ade/ and leaves your source tree under Git’s control.

2. Create a lane for the task

   A lane is an isolated branch and worktree. Use one lane per feature, fix, experiment, or PR.

3. Run an agent or a terminal

   Ask for a targeted change in chat, launch an interactive shell, or hand larger coordination to the CTO and workers.

4. Inspect the result

   Review changed files, terminal output, tests, PR state, and proof artifacts from one place.

5. Ship or split the work

   Commit, push, create a PR, stack follow-up lanes, or ask another agent to continue in a separate lane.

App map

Surface	Use it for
Run	Start dev processes, run tests, and see project health.
Lanes	Create, inspect, stack, archive, and clean up isolated worktrees.
Work	Manage chats, terminals, and CLI sessions across lanes.
Files	Read diffs, edit files, stage changes, and resolve conflicts.
Graph	See lane topology, PR links, stack relationships, and merge risk.
PRs	Create and review GitHub PRs, read CI, and manage stacked work.
History	Search the record of sessions, commits, PR activity, and checkpoints.
CTO	Ask project-level questions, delegate work, and manage worker agents.
Settings	Configure providers, GitHub, Linear, permissions, mobile, and usage.

Start small. Your first successful ADE session should be one lane, one agent, one narrow change, and one review pass.

Quickstart

Follow the shortest path to a working agent.

Key concepts

Learn the product vocabulary before going deeper.