Mission control for AI coding agents. Manage Claude Code and Codex sessions from your Mac or your phone — create sessions, review diffs, approve tools, and steer agents from anywhere.
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I don't write code anymore (pretty much) — agents do. My job is reviewing, managing, and providing guidance at the right time. But with multiple repos and a bunch of agents running across all of them, keeping track of it all was chaos. OrbitDock is how I'm trying to wrangle that.
A Rust server sits at the center. It creates and runs both Claude Code and Codex sessions directly — Codex via embedded codex-core, Claude via the CLI. It also picks up existing Claude Code terminal sessions through hooks. Run a server on your laptop, your work machine, a VPS, wherever your agents are. The macOS and iOS apps connect to all of them at once, so you get one unified view no matter where your sessions are running or what device you're on.
- Run agents from anywhere — Create Claude and Codex sessions from Mac or iOS, no terminal needed
- Live monitoring — Every session across every project, updating in real time
- Code review — Magit-style diffs with inline comments that steer the agent
- Approval triage — Diff previews, risk cues, keyboard shortcuts (y/n/!/N)
- Direct control — Send messages, approve tools, interrupt, run shell commands
- Usage tracking — Rate limit monitoring for Claude and Codex
- Multi-server — Connect to local, remote, and cloud endpoints at once
See FEATURES.md for the full list.
Get this running locally in a few minutes.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock/main/orbitdock-server/install.sh | bashThe installer sets up the binary, shell PATH, data directory, and database. It then asks whether
you want to install Claude hooks and whether you want OrbitDock running as a background service.
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orbitdock doctorIf you skipped the background service during install, start OrbitDock manually with:
orbitdock startdoctor runs a full diagnostic — database, hooks, encryption key, disk space, port availability,
and more. If something's wrong, it'll tell you.
Download from Releases and run it.
Or build from source:
git clone https://github.com/Robdel12/OrbitDock.git
cd OrbitDock
make buildYou can also open OrbitDock/OrbitDock.xcodeproj in Xcode and hit Cmd+R.
The app auto-connects to the local server.
Codex — Open Settings → CODEX CLI → Sign in with ChatGPT (or use API key auth mode).
Claude Code — Install the Claude Code CLI and log in. If you skipped hook setup during install, run orbitdock install-hooks.
Click New in the top bar and pick Claude Session or Codex Session. Select a project directory, choose your model, and go.
Existing Claude Code terminal sessions show up automatically through hooks.
If something doesn't appear, run orbitdock doctor and check ~/.orbitdock/logs/server.log.
Running on a VPS, Raspberry Pi, NAS, or another machine:
# On the server
orbitdock remote-setup
# On your developer machine
orbitdock install-hooks --server-url https://your-server.example.com:4000remote-setup guides secure exposure, creates a fresh auth token, and tells you the exact next commands
for pairing clients and forwarding hooks. For the app, add the same server URL and token in Settings → Servers.
See DEPLOYMENT.md for Cloudflare tunnels, TLS, reverse proxies, and Raspberry Pi notes.
- macOS 15.0+ (iOS 18.0+ for mobile)
- Codex — Built in. The server embeds codex-core. Authenticate with ChatGPT sign-in or API key
- Claude Code — Requires the
claudeCLI installed and logged in. OrbitDock creates sessions directly or monitors existing ones via hooks - Xcode 16+ and Rust stable toolchain if building from source
- FEATURES.md — Full feature list with keyboard shortcuts
- DEPLOYMENT.md — Server deployment guide (remote, TLS, tunnels)
- CONTRIBUTING.md — Development setup and architecture
- orbitdock-server/README.md — Server CLI reference