maddada/Ghostex

Ghostex

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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.

💬 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.

🔀 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.

📝 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.

🔎 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.

🤖 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.

📊 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.

⏭️ 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.

✅ 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.

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

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Install

macOS

brew install ghostex

Or download the app directly:

Windows

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

Linux

# 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

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

Comparison

| Feature | Ghostex | ChatGPT app | cmux | | ------------------------- | ------- | ----------- | ---- | | macOS support | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Windows support | Yes | Yes | No | | Linux support | Yes | Yes | No | | Open source | Yes | - | Yes | | Ghostty terminal | Yes | - | Yes | | Chromium Browser | Yes | Yes | No | | Chat GUI view | Yes | Yes | No | | Fully featured IDE | Yes | - | - | | Built-in Computer use | Yes | Yes | - | | Built-in Browser use | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Use any model | Yes | - | Yes | | Cross Model Orchestration | Yes | - | Yes | | Rich Prompt Editor | Yes | N/A | - | | iOS | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Android | Yes | Yes | Yes | | Automations | Yes | Yes | - |

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Community

• Discord: discord.gg/df7b3G92CS for help, TestFlight access, and feature talk.
• Issues: Report a bug or request a feature.
• Contributing: Ghostex moves fast and help is welcome on platform ports, agent integrations, docs, and polish. Start with CONTRIBUTING.md.

Credits

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

• Ghostty and Zed / GPUI for the terminal and the native shell
• CEF for embedded Chromium panes
• Trycua for built-in Computer Use
• VS Code and code-server for the embedded IDE
• Beads by Steve Yegge and Beads Viewer for the Kanban board
• OpenUsage for Claude and Codex usage stats
• Agentation for browser annotation tooling
• cmux for agent hook and notification patterns
• zehn by al3rez for prompt-history search
• vvterm and Termux for mobile terminal components
• Pierre for diff and file rendering components

License

Ghostex is free and open source under the MIT License.