maddada/Ghostex

The Best & Most Powerful Native Agents Workspace. Fully Rust & GPUI based. Mobile apps. 20+ agents. Ghostty.

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README

Ghostex Ghostex

GitHub stars Latest release License
Supported platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS

Join the Discord

Download Ghostex  ·  Website  ·  Watch the 3-minute tour

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Ghostex is built for developers who keep many agents alive at once. A chat view for every agent, a native Rust/GPUI shell, embedded Chromium panes, and a mobile app share one workspace, and every session survives restarts.

Features


iOS and Android apps with Easy Connect or Tailscale

Your agents in your pocket. Easy Connect pairs your phone with a single scan, no extra accounts needed, or join through your Tailscale tailnet if you already have one. Read transcripts, send follow-ups, preview localhost pages, and get a push when an agent finishes.


Pairing the phone app, then sessions and a chat on the phone

Chat & CLI views

Talk to Claude Code, Codex, or any other agent in a proper chat GUI: clickable images, readable diffs, queued prompts, sub-agents in view, and a full editor for long messages. If you ever need the raw CLI, it is one hotkey away and your draft comes with you.


A chat showing the agent's code change as a diff

Any agent, swap on the fly

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, and more. Pick the model and effort from the chat box, or hand a session from one agent to another mid-task.


The model picker switching between agents

Annotate Markdown, HTML and diagrams

Open plans, HTML prototypes, and Excalidraw diagrams next to your agent, select anything, and leave a note or mark it Looks good, Clarify, or Needs tests. One click sends every note to the agent's prompt as numbered feedback with line numbers.


A Markdown plan in the Files view with a comment, a Clarify mark and a Needs tests mark in the Annotations list

Find any past session

Fuzzy search every prompt you ever sent, across all your agents, and press Enter to resume the conversation. Star favourites and filter by agent or project. Also available as gx f for command-line fans.


Searching every past prompt

Agents that run agents

Agents can open sessions, send prompts, and read replies from other agents through the ghostex command. Ask Claude Code to spin up Codex sub-agents and steer them, or hand the work to an orchestrator that keeps track of them for you.


An orchestrator with its threads in the sidebar and the Threads panel

Charts and tables in the chat

Ask for $ghostex-visuals and agents answer with charts, tables, and stat tiles drawn right in the chat, or publish an HTML page that opens as a card. Same look on desktop, web, and phone.


A chat reply with stat tiles, a bar chart and a table of failing tests

Queue your next prompts

Keep typing while the agent works. Press Tab to queue a prompt and it waits above the input until the agent is free; drag to reorder, or press play on a message you already sent to interrupt and deliver it right away.


An agent at work with two queued prompts waiting above the chat input

Answer your agents in one click

When an agent needs your decisions, it asks them as a form right in the chat: every question at once, choices you click, a note box for each, and one Send. It works the same on desktop, web, and your phone.


A question form in the chat with clickable choices, Recommended badges and a Send answers button

Also in the box

  • Rich prompt editor: press Ctrl+G to edit any prompt in a full editor.
  • Built-in IDE: a VS Code editor that loads on demand and sleeps when you are not using it.
  • Remote machines: connect another computer with an Easy Connect code or SSH and it shows up in the sidebar.
  • Usage and accounts: Claude and Codex limits at a glance, with automatic account switching.
  • Worktrees, splits, and spaces: a worktree per task, split panes, Arc-style spaces.
  • Automations: scheduled prompts, plus menu bar and sound notifications.
  • Optional plugins: browser, Kanban, IDE, Docs, and more load only when you use them. Or write your own.

Supported agents

Works with any coding agent. Bring the one you already use.

Claude Code   Codex   OpenCode   Pi   oh-my-pi   Gemini CLI   Grok   Cursor   Copilot CLI   + many more


Install

macOS

brew install ghostex

Or download the app directly:

macOS Apple Silicon DMG

Windows

Windows x64 installer Windows ARM64 installer

Agents run in native PowerShell by default. Prefer Linux? Switch to WSL in Settings > General > Terminal > Windows Environment. Updates arrive automatically.

Linux

Linux DEB package Linux RPM package Arch Linux AUR package Linux tarball

# Arch Linux
yay -S ghostex-bin

# Any other x64 distribution: the tarball is a prefix-preserving /opt/ghostex tree
sudo tar -xpf ghostex-*-linux-x64.tar.zst -C /

Ghostex offers to install Chromium the first time you open the browser or code editor.

Mobile

Android APK iOS TestFlight

The iOS TestFlight runs through the Discord. Post in the iOS channel to get in.

Comparison

FeatureGhostexChatGPT appcmux
macOS supportYesYesYes
Windows supportYesYesNo
Linux supportYesYesNo
Open sourceYes-Yes
Ghostty terminalYes-Yes
Chromium BrowserYesYesNo
Chat GUI viewYesYesNo
Fully featured IDEYes--
Built-in Computer useYesYes-
Built-in Browser useYesYesYes
Use any modelYes-Yes
Cross Model OrchestrationYes-Yes
Rich Prompt EditorYesN/A-
iOSYesYesYes
AndroidYesYesYes
AutomationsYesYes-

Community

Ghostex contributors

Credits

Ghostex builds on open source work from these projects and communities:

The moving background behind the screenshots is Time lapse of a green meadow from Mixkit, used under the Mixkit Stock Video Free License.

License

Ghostex is free and open source under the MIT License.

maddada/Ghostex

The Best & Most Powerful Native Agents Workspace. Fully Rust & GPUI based. Mobile apps. 20+ agents. Ghostty.

Rust

1,088

5,607 commits

updated Oct 14, 2026

See the code

README

Ghostex Ghostex

GitHub stars Latest release License
Supported platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, Android, iOS

Join the Discord

Download Ghostex  ·  Website  ·  Watch the 3-minute tour

image

Ghostex is built for developers who keep many agents alive at once. A chat view for every agent, a native Rust/GPUI shell, embedded Chromium panes, and a mobile app share one workspace, and every session survives restarts.

Features


iOS and Android apps with Easy Connect or Tailscale

Your agents in your pocket. Easy Connect pairs your phone with a single scan, no extra accounts needed, or join through your Tailscale tailnet if you already have one. Read transcripts, send follow-ups, preview localhost pages, and get a push when an agent finishes.


Pairing the phone app, then sessions and a chat on the phone

Chat & CLI views

Talk to Claude Code, Codex, or any other agent in a proper chat GUI: clickable images, readable diffs, queued prompts, sub-agents in view, and a full editor for long messages. If you ever need the raw CLI, it is one hotkey away and your draft comes with you.


A chat showing the agent's code change as a diff

Any agent, swap on the fly

Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi, Gemini, Grok, Cursor, and more. Pick the model and effort from the chat box, or hand a session from one agent to another mid-task.


The model picker switching between agents

Annotate Markdown, HTML and diagrams

Open plans, HTML prototypes, and Excalidraw diagrams next to your agent, select anything, and leave a note or mark it Looks good, Clarify, or Needs tests. One click sends every note to the agent's prompt as numbered feedback with line numbers.


A Markdown plan in the Files view with a comment, a Clarify mark and a Needs tests mark in the Annotations list

Find any past session

Fuzzy search every prompt you ever sent, across all your agents, and press Enter to resume the conversation. Star favourites and filter by agent or project. Also available as gx f for command-line fans.


Searching every past prompt

Agents that run agents

Agents can open sessions, send prompts, and read replies from other agents through the ghostex command. Ask Claude Code to spin up Codex sub-agents and steer them, or hand the work to an orchestrator that keeps track of them for you.


An orchestrator with its threads in the sidebar and the Threads panel

Charts and tables in the chat

Ask for $ghostex-visuals and agents answer with charts, tables, and stat tiles drawn right in the chat, or publish an HTML page that opens as a card. Same look on desktop, web, and phone.


A chat reply with stat tiles, a bar chart and a table of failing tests

Queue your next prompts

Keep typing while the agent works. Press Tab to queue a prompt and it waits above the input until the agent is free; drag to reorder, or press play on a message you already sent to interrupt and deliver it right away.


An agent at work with two queued prompts waiting above the chat input

Answer your agents in one click

When an agent needs your decisions, it asks them as a form right in the chat: every question at once, choices you click, a note box for each, and one Send. It works the same on desktop, web, and your phone.


A question form in the chat with clickable choices, Recommended badges and a Send answers button

Also in the box

  • Rich prompt editor: press Ctrl+G to edit any prompt in a full editor.
  • Built-in IDE: a VS Code editor that loads on demand and sleeps when you are not using it.
  • Remote machines: connect another computer with an Easy Connect code or SSH and it shows up in the sidebar.
  • Usage and accounts: Claude and Codex limits at a glance, with automatic account switching.
  • Worktrees, splits, and spaces: a worktree per task, split panes, Arc-style spaces.
  • Automations: scheduled prompts, plus menu bar and sound notifications.
  • Optional plugins: browser, Kanban, IDE, Docs, and more load only when you use them. Or write your own.

Supported agents

Works with any coding agent. Bring the one you already use.

Claude Code   Codex   OpenCode   Pi   oh-my-pi   Gemini CLI   Grok   Cursor   Copilot CLI   + many more


Install

macOS

brew install ghostex

Or download the app directly:

macOS Apple Silicon DMG

Windows

Windows x64 installer Windows ARM64 installer

Agents run in native PowerShell by default. Prefer Linux? Switch to WSL in Settings > General > Terminal > Windows Environment. Updates arrive automatically.

Linux

Linux DEB package Linux RPM package Arch Linux AUR package Linux tarball

# Arch Linux
yay -S ghostex-bin

# Any other x64 distribution: the tarball is a prefix-preserving /opt/ghostex tree
sudo tar -xpf ghostex-*-linux-x64.tar.zst -C /

Ghostex offers to install Chromium the first time you open the browser or code editor.

Mobile

Android APK iOS TestFlight

The iOS TestFlight runs through the Discord. Post in the iOS channel to get in.

Comparison

FeatureGhostexChatGPT appcmux
macOS supportYesYesYes
Windows supportYesYesNo
Linux supportYesYesNo
Open sourceYes-Yes
Ghostty terminalYes-Yes
Chromium BrowserYesYesNo
Chat GUI viewYesYesNo
Fully featured IDEYes--
Built-in Computer useYesYes-
Built-in Browser useYesYesYes
Use any modelYes-Yes
Cross Model OrchestrationYes-Yes
Rich Prompt EditorYesN/A-
iOSYesYesYes
AndroidYesYesYes
AutomationsYesYes-

Community

Ghostex contributors

Credits

Ghostex builds on open source work from these projects and communities:

The moving background behind the screenshots is Time lapse of a green meadow from Mixkit, used under the Mixkit Stock Video Free License.

License

Ghostex is free and open source under the MIT License.

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