Tide Commander

Why Tide Commander?

Managing multiple Claude Code terminals is painful: you forget which window has context on what, agents finish without you noticing, and two of them can end up editing the same file. Tide Commander replaces that with a single visual UI — every agent, every status, every output, at a glance.

It looks like a game. It’s a serious developer tool: file explorer with git diffs, conversation history, permission controls, spotlight search, and a command palette — often enough that an IDE becomes optional.

Start here

Quickstart Install, spawn your first agent, and send your first command in under three minutes.

Core Concepts Agents, Boss & Subordinates, Classes, Skills, Areas, Delegation — the mental model.

Feature Overview A visual tour of the 3D battlefield, Dashboard, Commander View, and everything else.

Configuration System prompts, permission modes, environment variables, HTTPS, and keyboard shortcuts.

Built for

Parallel workflows

Assign one agent to investigate a bug while another ships a feature and a third runs the test suite. Watch all three simultaneously.

Long-running sessions

Sessions persist across restarts. Start on desktop, resume from your phone. No context lost.

Boss delegation

Talk to one boss agent. It picks the right subordinate for the job, dispatches, and summarises progress for you.

Three CLI providers

Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and OpenCode — all from the same UI, with session resume support for each.

Install

Run directly without installing (recommended):

bunx tide-commander

Or install globally:

npm i -g tide-commander@latest
tide-commander start

Full install options, prerequisites, and HTTPS setup in the Installation guide.