Coding agents for my remote workflow
The problem
My repositories ran on Coder. Configuring the available tools for my setup was complex. Rather than spend more time managing that setup, I built a tool around how I needed to run coding agents and review their work.
The design
I gave each agent its own Git worktree to keep parallel changes separate. I replaced the chat interface with tabbed terminals so I could read each session's output directly. A built-in browser let me preview the result, including apps running over SSH.
What it solved
Dhek brought agent sessions, previews, and pull-request review into one macOS window. I could run agents in parallel against my remote repositories and review the results in a workflow tailored to my needs at the time.
Changelog
- Added Linear integration
- Added a ⌘J command palette for jumping to agents, issues, and actions
- Brought working-tree diffs to SSH workspaces
- Added an SSH connection health indicator with wake-time probing and click-to-reconnect
- Reduced idle SSH traffic
- Fixed pasted images not reaching agents in SSH workspaces
- Added sidebar reordering, tab reordering, and tab renaming
- Added a ports indicator to the toolbar
- Widened the browser preview
- Fixed laggy terminal scrolling caused by a Debug build of the bundled terminal library
- Rebuilt the settings panel as a proper window with grouped cards
- Added .env auto-discovery, with auto-linking into new worktrees
- Added a selectable chime for when an agent finishes or needs approval
- Added a new welcome screen with an app-icon hero, pill actions, and a recents pane
- Restyled the sidebar into a layers-panel layout
- Added a Run App button that starts the dev server and opens the built-in preview
- Added automatic port detection, locally and over SSH
- Added a bottom-right overlay listing detected ports with open and kill actions
- Forwarded remote ports so the preview works for SSH workspaces
- Replaced the chat-streaming UI with a tabbed terminal workspace
- Added browser preview for worktree sessions
- Rebuilt the context file viewer on CodeMirror