Close the window, keep the work
A background daemon owns every pane; the window only draws them. Close it and your agents carry on.
Panehouse
Every agent in one window. Still there after a reboot.
A Windows terminal for running Claude Code, Codex, Agy and shells side by side, in tabs and split panes. Close the window and they keep working; restart the PC and each one picks up its own conversation.
- For Windows
- Free
- Updates itself
- Claude Code, Codex and Agy
Features
Built for a day of many agents
One agent fits in any terminal. Five of them, in three projects, across a reboot, need somewhere to live.
Everything comes back
After a reboot every tab, split and folder is restored, and each agent resumes its own conversation.
See who needs you
Working, idle, finished or waiting on you: on the title bars, the tabs, the taskbar and the window title.
Tabs and split panes
Split right or down, move with Alt and the arrows, zoom a pane, and group, colour, pin or sleep your tabs.
One colour per agent
Claude amber, Codex green, Agy violet, shells grey: the pane, its title bar and its tab's dots all agree.
Footers and a usage bar
Each pane shows its repo, branch, changes, model and context; the window shows each provider's 5-hour and weekly use.
Teams
Save a tab as a team and open it again later, with every agent back in its own conversation under its old name.
Agents can drive it too
The ph command lets an agent open panes, read them, type into them and wait on them.
Tour
A closer look
Screenshots of the app running a made-up project, with real agents working on throwaway tasks.
Tabs that tell you what's going on
You don't have to look inside a tab to know what it's doing. A pulsing dot for each agent at work, in its colour; a tick when one finished while you were elsewhere; a badge when one is waiting on you.
- Ctrl+Shift+A jumps to the next pane that needs you
- Colours, icons, pinned tabs and groups you can collapse
- Sleep a tab to stop its agents and free what they use, then wake them where they left off
Restart the PC, carry on
The layout is saved as you work. When Panehouse starts again, shells come back in their folders and agents come back one after another, each resuming its own conversation.
- Claude, Codex and Agy each resume with their own conversation id
- When it isn't sure which conversation was yours, it asks: Resume or Start fresh
- If the daemon ever crashes, the window restarts it and the panes come back
Agents that work as a team
Every agent runs under a Switchboard name, so the others can message it. With ph, an agent can open a Codex beside itself, hand it a task, and wait until it's done.
ph spawn codex --right-of Lead --name Fixer ph wait Fixer --state idle --timeout 10m ph read Fixer --tail 40 ph team save "Bug Fixer"
An agent where you want it
New agent (Ctrl+Shift+N) opens Claude, Codex, Agy or a shell to the right of or below the pane you're in, in the folder you choose. Or just type claude, codex or agy in a shell pane: within a second it becomes that agent.
The keys
The window takes only these; every other key goes to the terminal.
- CtrlShiftN
- New agent
- CtrlShiftA
- Next pane that needs you
- AltShift= / -
- Split right / down
- Alt←↑↓→
- Move to the next pane
- CtrlShiftZ
- Zoom the pane
- CtrlShiftT
- New tab
- CtrlTab
- Next tab
- Ctrl= / -
- Bigger / smaller text
Download
Get Panehouse
It installs for you alone (no admin needed), puts ph on your PATH, and keeps itself up to date: new versions download in the background and the window offers Update and restart.
- Bring the agent CLIs you want to run: Claude Code, Codex, Agy, or just your shells
- Switchboard, which carries messages between agents, comes with it
- An update restarts the daemon, so it asks first, and your agents come back after it
- The installer isn't code-signed yet, so Windows SmartScreen may warn you: choose More info, then Run anyway
- Found a bug or want a feature? Open an issue