Do I need an API key or a subscription to use cowork-deck?
No. cowork-deck runs the Claude Code you already have installed, on your own machine, under your own plan. It adds no account, no server and no cost of its own.
Free · Open source · macOS and Linux
Run many Claude Code sessions at once.
cowork-deck is a desktop app for running Claude Code sessions in parallel. Every session gets a tile with a real terminal in it, and the window answers one question at a glance: which of these needs me?
MIT licensed No account, key or subscription ~100 MB resident Runs your own claude
How to read a deck
Hue belongs to state, and to nothing else.
Green, amber and red mean working, waiting and broken. They are never spent on decoration — which is why there is not one coloured button on this page. A dozen sessions read in one sweep of the left edge.
Retry the refund webhook on a 410
working* Resetting the backoff on restart…(21s · ↑ 2.1k tokens)
Review the diff
needs inputDo you want to proceed?❯ 1. Yes 2. No, tell Claude what to do
Nightly dependency sweep
doneFourteen packages moved, the suiteis green, and #161 is open.
#128 · fix-flaky-timer
errorerror: linker `cc` not found[process exited with code 101]
1 waiting for a decision 1 stopped on an error
The problem
A window full of terminals does not tell you which one is stuck.
01
Tabs hide state
A tab strip shows names, not states. The session that has been parked on a permission prompt for eleven minutes looks exactly like the one that is working.
02
tmux does not know what an agent is
A multiplexer splits panes. It has no idea that one of them finished a turn, that another is blocked on a decision, or what any of them has cost so far.
03
One account at a time
gh auth switch is global. Two projects on two GitHub
accounts means switching, remembering to switch back, and
eventually pushing as the wrong person.
Half a minute of the real thing
The deck never leaves the window.
A session finishes its turn and its rail changes live. One tile zooms near-full while the rest fall into a filmstrip. A workspace's board lists its repository's issues; a pull request unfolds into its diff.
What it does
7 things a terminal cannot do for you.
A GitHub account per project
Bind each workspace to a gh account. Sessions in two
projects push, open pull requests and sign commits as two different
people — with no account switching, and with neither one leaking into
the other.
Many sessions, one window
A dozen agents running at once, and one glance that says which of them needs you.
A board that starts sessions
Cards in your repo, or the repository’s issues. Either way, ▶ turns one into a running session.
Issues and pull requests
Issues open as documents. Pull requests carry their checks, their verdict and their diff.
Saved prompts, on a schedule
A prompt under a name, launched in one press — or hourly, daily, weekly, unattended.
The same setup everywhere
Your workspaces and scenarios follow you to the next machine, through a repository nobody else owns.
Memory that fills itself
A session writes its own summary when it closes, so the corpus grows without anyone keeping notes.
Getting started
Three steps, and none of them is an account.
- Install Claude Code and log in as you normally would.
cowork-deck runs the
claudealready on your machine. - Download the app — a
.dmgfor macOS, an AppImage,.debor.rpmfor Linux. Windows means building from source for now. - Point a workspace at a project folder. The first session starts there. Everything else — accounts, boards, scenarios — is optional and off until you turn it on.
Before you download
Three questions worth answering first.
How many Claude Code sessions can run at the same time?
As many as your machine and your plan allow. The app itself uses around 100 MB of memory; each session is an ordinary claude process in a PTY, costing what it would cost in a terminal.
Is cowork-deck free and open source?
Yes. It is MIT-licensed and the whole application is in a public GitHub repository, including the screenshot harness the images on this site were shot with.
Nothing to sign up for