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An infinite canvas IDE for parallel coding agents.
Run Claude Code, Codex, or any agent CLI in a Cate terminal and the canvas becomes mission control: every terminal shows whether its agent is working, finished, or waiting on you, and Cate notifies you the moment one needs input. One click spins up a git worktree with its own colored territory on the canvas, so five agents on five branches stay five visibly separate workstreams instead of a pile of tabs.
Open a folder and it becomes a workspace. No config files.
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Install
Download a prebuilt release. Don't build from source for daily use.
| Platform | Formats | Link |
|----------|---------|------|
| macOS | DMG, ZIP (arm64, x64) | Latest release |
| Windows | NSIS installer, ZIP (x64) | Latest release |
| Linux | AppImage, DEB, tar.gz (x64) | Latest release |
On macOS you can also install with Homebrew:
brew install --cask cateWhat's inside
- Agent-aware terminals. Supported agent CLIs report turn start, turn end, and permission prompts, so each panel shows running / waiting / finished and pings you when it needs an answer.
- Agent sessions survive restarts. Reopen the project and terminals come back with their scrollback, each agent reattached with its own resume command.
- Worktrees for parallel branches. Type what you're working on and Cate creates the worktree and branch, off a local branch, a remote branch, or an open PR.
- Panels on a canvas or in a dock. Terminals, Monaco editors, browsers, PDF/image/DOCX viewers, nested canvases. Float, dock into tabs and splits, or detach into their own window. Layout persists per project.
- Git and search. Multi-repo source control, git badges in the file tree, side-by-side diffs, ripgrep search, and
Cmd+Kfor commands, panels, and files. - A CLI agents can call. In a Cate terminal,
catedrives a browser panel, reads another terminal, opens files, manages panels. - Local and remote are the same path. Every workspace runs in its own runtime, on your machine or another one: terminals, git, search, and agents run there, and work keeps running when you close the window. Pair another device with a QR code or pairing code, on the same network or through Cate Connect, and it joins the same live workspace over an end-to-end encrypted connection.
Cmd+K for everything else. Shortcuts are rebindable in Settings.
Contributing
Build-from-source instructions and the contribution workflow are in CONTRIBUTING.md. Release history is in the CHANGELOG.