Code-by-wire

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Pilot coding agents (Claude Code, Codex) and monitor their telemetry from one cockpit.

Features

Needs Claude Code and/or Codex installed locally. Open the app and every session already running on your machine is there.

• Every session in one rail. Manage every session running on your machine from one rail: grouped by project, searchable, each flagging its live state.
• Drive, fork, or just watch. Spawn a session in an embedded terminal, fork a live one, resume one you started elsewhere, or observe it read-only.
• The full transcript. Every message, tool call, and result, reconstructed from disk and rendered cleanly.
• The full telemetry. Context pressure, spend, token throughput, duty cycle, git, tasks, subagents, and background shells, live per session.
• The whole story. A cross-session Stats view with a year-long contributions calendar and exact, never-estimated totals.
• Your rate limits in view. Your account's rate-limit windows, read straight from disk, with live reset countdowns.

Download

One click starts the download. Always the latest release. You'll need Claude Code and/or Codex installed locally, so there are sessions to observe and control.

On macOS, open the .dmg and drag Code-by-wire to Applications. The app is signed and notarized by Apple, so it opens straight away. On Windows, run the .exe; it's unsigned for now, so if SmartScreen warns, click More info → Run anyway.

Once installed, the app checks for new releases on launch and updates from Settings → About.

Build from source

pnpm install
pnpm rebuild:native   # rebuild better-sqlite3 + node-pty for Electron's ABI
pnpm dist             # macOS: writes the .dmg to release/
pnpm dist:win         # Windows: writes the .exe to release/

A locally built app is unsigned: on macOS the first launch may need a right-click → Open, or clearing the quarantine flag with xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Code-by-wire.app; on Windows, SmartScreen may warn: click More info → Run anyway.

Develop

pnpm install
pnpm rebuild:native   # rebuild better-sqlite3 + node-pty for Electron's ABI
pnpm dev              # launch the app

pnpm test runs the provider read tests over the redacted .claude fixtures in tests/fixtures/. pnpm typecheck checks the main and renderer projects.

This is a personal project and isn't taking outside code, but bug reports and ideas are welcome. Open an issue, or see CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

MIT