{"slug": "show-hn-i-couldn-t-deal-with-another-claude-code-tab", "title": "Show HN: I couldn't deal with another Claude Code tab", "summary": "Aidash released Cockpit 0.1.2, a free macOS app that runs Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex side by side in one window, reading the transcripts those tools already write to disk rather than replacing them. Cockpit surfaces sessions waiting on a reply or permission prompt in a single \"Attention\" table, lets users start new Claude Code or Codex sessions without a terminal, and keeps hundreds of sessions organized in colour-coded categories with search. The app stores API keys in a local file, sends no telemetry or session data off the machine, and is available for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.", "body_md": "Cockpit puts Claude Code and Codex side by side in one window. See\nwhat every session is doing, answer the ones waiting on you, start new\nones, and keep hundreds organized, without a wall of terminal tabs. No\naccount, nothing uploaded, and it's free.\n\nNot another agent. The one place for the ones you already run.\n\nA harness is the tool wrapped around the model, Claude Code or Codex.\nRun a few and you're soon drowning in terminal tabs, unable to tell\nwhich one finished and which is quietly waiting on you. Cockpit reads\nthe transcripts those tools already write to disk and lays them out in\none window. It sits above your harnesses, it doesn't replace them, and\nit changes nothing about how you run them.\n\nAttention\n\nSee what's waiting. Answer in one screen.\n\nThe hard part was never the coding, it's telling which session\nfinished and which is sitting on a permission prompt you never saw.\nAttention is one table of the sessions that need you, from either\ntool, each with a reply box.\n\nClaude Code and Codex in one list\n\nA red badge the moment a session needs you\n\nReply, approve a permission, or stop a run with ⌘.\n\nStart work\n\nStart a session without opening a terminal.\n\nHit +, pick a directory, type a first instruction, and choose\nClaude Code or Codex. The card lands on the board and you talk to it\nthere, no new tab to lose track of.\n\nStart Claude Code or Codex from the app\n\nRecent directories one click away\n\nPaste images straight in with ⌘V\n\nEvery session\n\nOpen one and read the whole story.\n\nA summary and a \"where we are\" at the top, then the transcript,\nreadably. The files the agent wrote become tabs, each with a version\ntimeline you can diff and restore from. Select a passage, say what's\nwrong, and send it back.\n\nA summary, not a wall of logs\n\nFiles as tabs, every write kept and versioned\n\nAdd your own document viewers as drop-in plugins\n\nAt scale\n\nKeep hundreds of them in order.\n\nDrag a card into a category; rename, recolour, and add\nsub-categories from its own icon. Pin the flows you keep coming back\nto. Weeks later the thread is right where you left it, searchable,\nnot lost in a closed terminal.\n\nCategories with colours, icons, and sub-categories\n\nPin the recurring flows\n\nSearch across every session, past and present\n\nDocuments · new in 0.1.2\n\nWork with what the agent wrote, don't just read it.\n\nComment for targeted changes\n\nSelect any passage in a file, say what's wrong, and it goes\nstraight back to the session that wrote it, one note or a whole\nbatch as a single message. No copy-pasting diffs into a terminal.\n\nFull version history\n\nEvery write the agent makes is kept. Each file has a timeline you\ncan read backwards, diff, and Restore from, for when an update\nbreaks something that was working.\n\nViewers, including .docx\n\nMarkdown, CSV, images and more render as documents, not raw text.\nAdd a viewer for a new type as a drop-in plugin that lives outside\nthe app, so an update never removes it.\n\nNothing leaves your Mac.\n\nNo account, no telemetry, no cloud. The only thing that goes out is a\nprompt to the model you picked, with your own API key, kept in a local\nfile on your machine. Cockpit reads your sessions; it never sends them\nanywhere.\n\nGet every session in one window.\n\nIt's free, it's local, and it opens with a double-click. Grab the app, or read the guide first.\n\nDownload for macOS\n\nmacOS · Apple silicon and Intel\n\nFree because you bring your own API keys: you pay the model provider directly, and there's no server for us to run or data for us to sell.\n\nGet in touch\n\nQuestions, press, or early access?\n\nSend a note and it lands straight in our inbox. Or email\nsupport@aidash.dev.\n\nNameEmail\n\nMessage\n\nSend message\n\naidash is free. 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