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Installation · What Flying Feels Like · Remote Pane · Workspaces · Handoff · Pane Chat · Agent-Operable CLI · Keyboard Shortcuts · Building from Source

Not an IDE. Not a terminal emulator. Vim for agent management.

Pane manages AI coding agents without replacing them. If it runs in a terminal, it runs in Pane — instantly, with zero integration. Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Aider, Goose, or any CLI tool. No plugins, no SDK, no waiting for support.

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Why Pane Exists

AI coding agents are incredible. Claude Code can work autonomously for hours. Codex can ship features end-to-end. Aider can refactor entire modules. The models are not the bottleneck.

The way you interact with them is.

Managing AI agents right now feels like air traffic control with a walkie-talkie. You're juggling terminal windows. Copy-pasting between tabs. Losing track of which agent is on which branch. Alt-tabbing between your diff viewer, your terminal, your git client, and your editor. The agents are fast — but your tools make you slow.

And then there's git worktrees. Everyone agrees worktrees are the right way to run parallel agents — isolated branches, no conflicts, clean separation. But actually using them? It's miserable. git worktree add, git worktree remove, remembering paths, tracking which worktree is on which branch, cleaning up stale ones, rebasing back to main, squashing commits before merging. Even experienced developers fumble the workflow. It's powerful infrastructure with terrible UX.

Pane makes worktrees invisible. You create a session, Pane creates the worktree. You delete a session, Pane cleans it up. You hit a shortcut, Pane rebases from main. You never type git worktree again. All the isolation benefits, none of the pain.

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What Flying Feels Like

Each of these is a small thing. Together they compound fast.

Feature
Pane Chat	A global orchestrator terminal that starts in the Pane data directory, loads local Pane orchestration skills, and can coordinate Claude, Codex, or Cursor across repositories, panes, tabs, worktrees, and review loops.	Details
Remote Pane	Run panes, worktrees, terminals, files, git state, and approval prompts on a self-hosted remote machine while controlling them from desktop Pane or the browser app at runpane.com/app.	Setup
Pane Workspaces	Let an agent on one of your machines read files, run commands, and drive Pane on another over Tailscale. Hand off a task to a fresh agent with its branch and a written note.	Workspaces · Handoff
Agent-Operable CLI	Pane ships with runpane agent-context, runpane repos add, and runpane panes create, so a coding agent can discover Pane's command schema, register a repo, open a Pane for each new issue, and add agent tabs to existing Panes for review and fixes (1 feature = 1 worktree = 1 branch = 1 Pane). Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor get the same commands as MCP tools.	Contract · MCP
@mention Terminals	Type @ in any terminal to pull the last 500 lines from another pane's terminal directly into your context, no copy-paste required.
Clipboard Shortcuts	Ctrl+Alt+[key] pastes any saved text snippet instantly, so your most-used prompts are one keystroke away forever.
Terminal Popover	Highlight any text in a terminal and an intelligent popover offers the right action: copy, open in browser, or show in explorer.
Built-in Browser	Preview any URL in a tab next to your terminals so every pane can see its own running dev server without alt-tabbing. A new tab, or the address bar's Ports button, lists every port listening on the machine, grouped by the Pane that started it. On your phone, the Remote Pane app opens the same ports and HTML pages over Tailscale (how), and its Explorer tab browses, edits and previews the worktree's files (how).
Resource Manager	Built-in CPU and memory monitor broken down per pane and per process, so you can catch a runaway agent before it eats your laptop.
Status Cues	Every AI pane reports its state at a glance — a red dot when an agent is blocked waiting on your approval, an amber pulse while it works, and a "done" cue when it finishes while you're looking elsewhere. The same rollup colors the project dots and pane tabs, on the desktop and in the phone app, so a whole screen of parallel agents reads in one glance.
Jump + Refresh	Jump to top, jump to bottom, or hard-refresh any terminal from the toolbar to unstick a frozen state in one click.
Auto Secrets Copy	Every pane automatically mirrors .env files and secrets from your root project so your worktree is runnable the moment it's created.
Isolated Ports	Each pane runs on its own port range automatically, so you can spin up five dev servers in parallel without a single conflict.
Terminal Rendering Patches	Claude Code's scroll-jump bug (long conversations snapping to top when you scroll up) is fixed here, even though it's still broken in Claude Code itself.
Drag and Drop	Drop any file up to 50MB into a terminal and it lands exactly where you need it.

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SSH hosts

Pane lists every host in your SSH config (~/.ssh/config, or C:\Users\<you>\.ssh\config on Windows, plus the files it Includes) under SSH hosts in the sidebar. Click one and a terminal tab opens with ssh <host>, using your own ssh, keys and agent. It needs no project, and Pane never reads or copies your keys. Edit the config and the list follows. See SSH hosts.

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Remote Pane

Run agents on a VM, WSL box, home server, desktop, Mac mini, or cloud machine while you keep the Pane UI on your laptop or phone. Remote Pane is self-hosted and open source: the host machine runs the repos, terminals, git state, files, agent credentials, and compute; the client just connects with a pane-remote://... code.

The easiest setup path is in the app:

1. Install Pane normally on the machine that should host your projects and agents.
2. Open Settings > Remote Access on that host machine.
3. Set it up as a remote host and copy the generated pane-remote://... connection code.
4. On another desktop, open Pane, go to Settings > Remote Access, paste the code under Add connection, and connect.
5. On a phone or tablet, open runpane.com/app, paste the same code, and connect.

A connected desktop reaches the host's dev servers at their usual localhost address: browser tabs, terminal links and live reload work as on the host. See Forwarded ports.

For a headless VM or server, run the guided setup in its terminal:

npx --yes runpane@latest

Choose Set up a remote host, give it a name, and follow the Tailscale login prompts. Paste the printed connection code into Pane or runpane.com/app on another device signed into the same Tailscale network.

To skip the menu and run interactive remote setup directly:

npx --yes runpane@latest install daemon --interactive-tailscale-setup --auto-listen-port

pnpm:

pnpm dlx runpane@latest

Python tools:

pipx run runpane