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Caffold · self-hosted on your Mac

Leave your desk. Keep working.

Codex, Claude Code, and Grok run on your Mac. From a desktop, a tablet, or a phone, follow their work, answer their approvals, read the actual diff, and send the next instruction. Unfold a foldable, and you have the whole workspace.

Get started View on GitHub

brew install --cask panarch/tap/caffold

Working Tree on an unfolded foldable: the changed files beside the diff

Unfolded foldable · Working Tree

The same Task's conversation on a phone

Phone · Conversation

The loop stays with you

01

Ask

Start a Task where the work belongs, choose a Codex, Claude, or Grok model, and describe the work, with files or screenshots if they help.

02

Follow

Watch the conversation as it happens and answer the agent's approval requests while it works.

03

Review

Read the answer, the commands and tests it ran, the changed files, and the actual diff.

04

Continue

Say what comes next, from a fix to a commit, a worktree, or a Note. Steer a running turn, or pick up the same Task later.

A finished Caffold Task on a desktop: the request, the agent's answer, its plan, and the Task list

The agents you already use

Caffold does not reimplement the agents. It runs each one you have installed, with its own sign-in, models, approval modes, and conversation history.

Codex

The official Codex CLI, through the same runtime Codex's own apps use.

Claude Code

The Claude Code CLI, picking up each conversation from Claude's own history.

Grok

The Grok CLI, with sessions that keep running while Caffold restarts.

Set up your agents

Read the real changes

The answer is only the agent's summary. Next to every conversation, Caffold keeps the repository it worked in:

  • the uncommitted changes and the branch, file by file, with their diffs;
  • comparisons between any two refs, and the commit history;
  • the repository's Issues and Pull Requests, each of which can start a Task.

Review changes

Working Tree showing a Task's changed files and the diff of one of them

An approval request waiting on a phone

Any screen, the same Task

A desktop, a foldable, a tablet, and a phone all open the same Tasks. The layout changes with the screen, the work does not.

  • Reach the Mac privately from your other devices with Tailscale.
  • Install Caffold as an app and get notified when a turn ends or an approval waits.
  • Attach files and screenshots to any prompt.
  • Dictate prompts, on the Mac or with your own speech-to-text key.
  • Run actions and scroll from the keyboard on a desktop.

Use other devices

Your Mac, your data

Caffold is not a hosted service. The agents, your repositories and credentials, and the conversations stay on the Mac you run it on. Other devices reach it through your own private network, and nothing leaves the Mac for voice input or permission review unless you turn it on.

Data and privacy

Install Caffold

Caffold runs on Apple silicon Macs with macOS 14 or later.

brew install --cask panarch/tap/caffold

Install guide