The macOS terminal that keeps track of your AI coding agents.

A kanban board for coding agents: working, waiting, idle

Ante reads each state from the agent itself, not from a timer you set up. The counts below are wired to the demo window above and change as it does.

Activity and session history, read from the agents' own files

The Activity strip counts a year of prompts per day, read from the history files Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi already keep, with streaks. Zoom in on one day to see which project, which agent, and how long each session ran. Hover a bar to try it.

Today: 11 sessions across 3 projects, 4h 10m with an agent in the foreground, busiest between 10:00 and 11:00.

Supported agents: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi and more

Ante watches the foreground process in every pane, so it knows which agent is driving. Nothing to configure and no wrapper to launch through. Hover an agent to see the command History uses to resume it.

• Claude Code
• Codex
• OpenCode
• Pi
• Aider
• Gemini CLI
• Goose
• Amp
• Cursor
• Any shell or command

Resume command: Hover an agent above

A native macOS terminal with splits, themes and a focus timer

Splits, four ways

Right, down, left, up. Every pane has its own close button and a focus ring in the accent colour. Move focus with ⌘⌥ and an arrow key.

Drop over any app

A global hotkey brings Ante over whatever you are working in and makes it the active app. Press it again and you are back where you were.

Shell integration that never touches your rc files

Command boundaries, cwd tracking, previous and next command, select the last output. Ante injects it at launch and writes nothing to your dotfiles.

Themes you already own

Import iTerm2 .itermcolors or Alacritty .toml from Settings. The window chrome follows the terminal theme, not the system appearance.

One config file, hot-reloaded

~/.config/ante/config.toml. Edit it by hand or through Settings. Either way, changes apply straight away and your comments stay put.

Command palette and file drops

⌘⇧P opens a palette for anything with a name. Drop files onto the terminal to paste their paths, or press ⌘⇧O to pick one.

Sessions survive quitting

Quit Ante and every open session is filed into History with its working directory and last screen. The next launch starts clean, and a click brings any of them back.

To-do list and notes

⌘⇧T opens a scratchpad next to your sessions: tasks you can add, tick off and edit in place, with a notes pad below. The toolbar button shows how many are still open.

Focus timer

A timer button in the toolbar runs 25 minutes of focus and a 5 minute break, with a long break every fourth block. A sound and a notification mark each turn, and the popover counts the blocks you finished today.

Safe by default

Ante never opens a network connection. It writes only under its own Application Support folder and ~/.config/ante. Everything read from a terminal, a session file or a hook is treated as untrusted and sanitised before it is shown.

Keyboard shortcuts

Hover a shortcut to see it on the keyboard. The ones marked live work on this page. Every shortcut can be rebound under Settings › Keys.

Open source, MIT licensed

Ante's code is public. Read it, build it yourself, file a bug, or send a pull request. Bundled fonts, colour schemes and Swift packages keep their own licences, listed in the repository.

git clone https://github.com/ishan97/ante
cd ante
./scripts/bootstrap.sh   # installs xcodegen, generates the project
./scripts/test.sh        # tests every package, builds the app
./scripts/package.sh     # release build, dist/Ante-<version>.dmg