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What is wdx

Running one AI coding agent is easy: open a terminal and start it. Running several at once is not. One waits on a question in a tab you closed, two edit the same files, a laptop that slept takes a session with it, and at the end of the day you piece together what each changed.

wdx runs them as a team instead of a pile of terminals.

What it does

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  • Agents that outlive your terminal. Every agent and every shell runs in a pseudo-terminal owned by a small process of its own, a holder. Close the window, restart the daemon or update wdx, and they keep running; attach again from any terminal.
  • The AI CLIs you already use. An agent runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Antigravity, with the same wdx features on each.
  • Who needs you, at a glance. wdx reads each agent’s screen and tells working, waiting and idle apart. An agent that asks a question is marked until you answer it.
  • A worktree per agent. An agent can work in a git worktree on a branch of its own. You read its diff and land it on the default branch, without a merge commit, or through a PR.
  • Plans. A feature split into tasks that wait for each other: wdx starts an agent for each task that is ready and lands what it finishes.
  • Docs with revisions. Designs live in wdx, with a status from wip to approved, so people and agents read the same thing as soon as it is written.
  • TIDE, the Terminal IDE: a project’s agents, worktrees, docs, plans and code in one window. Try it in your browser.
  • The same features for scripts. Every command takes --json, prints one JSON object with a stable error code, and never prompts. Agents use wdx this way too.

What it is not

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  • Not an AI CLI. wdx runs the ones you install and pay for; it adds no model of its own.
  • Not a cloud service. Everything still runs on your machine, in ~/.wdx. A hub is optional: a server you run yourself, for you or your organisation, that connects your own machines to each other.
  • Not tied to an editor. TIDE is a terminal program; any terminal and any editor work with it.

Where it runs

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Linux and macOS, on amd64 and arm64. wdx needs git; everything else is optional. Next: Install.