agents outlive the dashboard
Close it and nothing stops. The daemon's sessions are the roster.
workspace-native · terminal-native
A control surface for coding agents.
Dispatches Claude, Codex, and any agent CLI onto a daemon that owns each agent's PTY and terminal. The dashboard runs in yours.
$brew install trentkm/stormlight/stormlight
source on github →
workspaces · agents · spanreed — the selected agent's real terminal, live
design
The daemon owns the terminals. The dashboard just visits.
Each agent is one daemon session: a PTY plus an authoritative terminal emulator. A snapshot is exact state; an attach is a byte stream, never a screen scrape.
conversations outlive agents
Every session lands in an append-only log; H reopens any of them,
with everything already said and done.
workspace-native
Linked worktrees group into one workspace; each checkout stays a distinct execution root.
bytes, not strings
Messages arrive as a bracketed paste into the PTY. Hooks are wired per launch —
nothing is written to ~/.claude or ~/.codex.
attention
Amber is an inbox.
It clears when you engage with a result — not when you scroll past it.
● working
Running. A glow sweeps the name — visible, ignorable.
○ waiting
Finished with a result you haven't seen. First in, first out.
! question · approval · auth
Blocked on you. The row goes loud; Enter walks into the prompt.
the engine underneath
Built on windrunner.
A persistent terminal session engine for Go.
Windrunner owns PTYs, runs a real VT emulator for each one — pure Go, no cgo —
and keeps them alive in a daemon that outlives any client. It's the engine inside
tools like tmux and screen, extracted and embeddable. Stormlight is its first
consumer: the daemon is the stormlight binary itself, started on demand.
Nothing else to install.
- A library first — daemon and wire protocol are packages, not requirements
- Snapshots are exact serialized state, then the live byte stream
- Bytes on the wire — bring any front end: a Go TUI, xterm.js, a bot