Lanes

Lanes is a macOS app for running several AI coding agents at once without them stepping on each other, paired with an open-source endpoint that gives those agents one governed door to your accounts and context. The desktop side puts every agent session on a board, gives each task its own git worktree, and adds the editor, database browser and git client you'd otherwise keep switching to. The endpoint side, called Lanes Link, holds your credentials and memory in one place so you can change the AI you use and keep the context.

The problem it solves is what happens when parallel agents share a checkout. Two Claude Code sessions editing the same branch collide, half-finished work leaks between tasks, and you lose track of which agent is doing what. Lanes gives each issue an isolated worktree with an auto-generated branch name and automatic cleanup, then tracks the work through planning, implementation, review and completion stages on one board.

Claude Code and Codex are first class, and plain shell sessions work too. Inside the app there's a Monaco editor with a file tree, a SQLite browser, and a git client that commits and publishes, plus a built-in MCP server and a gateway for external MCP providers. Forms let an agent pause mid-task and ask a person for input, and they can be provisioned without an account through a POST endpoint that returns a claim link. Optional remote workspaces sync issues and chat in real time for a team, and a Claude Code plugin marketplace extends the app further. It installs through Homebrew as a cask and runs on macOS Ventura or later as a universal binary. A typical session starts with an issue on the board. You create it, pick an agent, and Lanes opens a worktree on a fresh branch and starts the session there, so the agent's edits never touch your main checkout. While it works you can watch the diff in the built-in editor, poke at the local database in the SQLite browser, or answer a form the agent has raised, and when it's done the git client commits and publishes from the same window. A second issue gets a second worktree and a second agent, and the board is where you see both moving through review.

Lanes Link is the personal context half. It's an Apache-2.0 licensed MCP endpoint you install with Bun, run locally at 127.0.0.1 on port 7337, or push to the cloud with lanes link deploy. Rather than every agent holding its own copy of your tokens, credentials stay on the server and agents receive results only, across Gmail, GitHub, Linear, Notion, Slack and more than a hundred other providers. Profiles separate work from personal access, every agent request lands in an append-only audit log, and your data is stored as readable Markdown files you can put under version control.

It's built for developers and small teams who already run autonomous coding agents and want coordination, isolation and an audit trail rather than another chat window. Solo users get the full local product free. Teams get roles, permissions and invitations on the paid plan, and anyone with GPU-hungry jobs can use Lanes Compute, which is billed by the second.

What makes it different is the combination. Plenty of tools orchestrate agents, and a few MCP hubs aggregate integrations, but Lanes pairs a native multi-agent workspace with a self-hostable context endpoint under one design, so the agent that writes the code and the agent that reads your Linear tickets share a governed setup. The desktop app's source is on GitHub with around 270 stars, though its license is proprietary, while Link is genuinely open source. The limits are that the desktop app is macOS only, Link needs Bun on macOS or Linux, and the whole thing assumes you're comfortable with worktrees, MCP and a terminal. Compared with the usual alternative, several terminals and a lot of discipline, the difference is that the isolation and the bookkeeping are built in. Running agents by hand in separate tabs works until two of them touch the same file, and it leaves no record of who changed what or which account an agent used. Lanes puts each one in its own tree, logs every request through Link, and keeps the human in the loop through forms and review stages, which is what a small team needs before it trusts agents with real work.

Access is freemium. The Free plan is one seat at no cost and includes local sessions, multi-agent orchestration, worktrees, terminal and editor integration, MCP and CLI access, and unlimited API keys. Pro is $19 a month for up to ten members and adds team invitations, roles and permissions and higher Forms limits, and Enterprise is custom priced. Compute is billed separately by the second. No contact email is published, so support runs through the site and the GitHub repositories.