A floating sidebar that follows the pane — or a Codex or Claude Code desktop window — you're working in and surfaces what an IDE would've shown you — git status, diffs, file trees, agent activity — right beside the work.
1:follow*how it works
Just work in your terminal panes. Move from atlas-ui to beam-api
to nova-cli — Sidebridge rewrites itself for the project under the active pane.
Git, diffs, files, agent state, history, all of it. No project picker. No mode switch.
Automatic.
2:fracture*where the awareness went
Now the work is in panes, agent chats, branches, and background processes. The code moves fast. Your project awareness lags behind.
3:surface*the project surface
Pane-aware, not project-picker
Move across panes, tabs, and Codex chats. Sidebridge follows the active project, branch, source, and worktree — no project picker, no manual switching.
Less switching, more flow
Start with project state. Click into the file, diff, focus span, or agent surface only when you need detail. No app switching, no context loss.
Skip the catch-up tax
Since Last Focus surfaces every file, tool call, commit, line delta, and process shift that happened while you were elsewhere.
Stop digging through chat logs
Tool calls, active goals, agent skills, model + effort config, hooks, MCP, and the writable Agent Brief — all part of the same panel. No hunting through chat history to figure out what the agent did.
Your layout, your rules
Drag modules to reorder. Hide what you don't need. Pin the ones you live in. Save a layout per repo or keep one global setup — Sidebridge ships with a focused module set that keeps growing.
One search, the active project surface
Open the toolbar search and query the current project's loaded Sidebridge surface: files, commits, diffs, docs, config, tool calls, agent notes, and recent focus history.
4:viewer*quick popups, not app switching
Lightweight popups for the files you keep glancing at — diffs, skill READMEs, Markdown, JSON, YAML, TOML, configs, and plugin docs. When you actually want to edit, open the file in its default app, reveal it in Finder, or jump to your editor.
5:scope*terminal-scoped behavior
Sidebridge follows the terminal and app surfaces you choose. Switch away to Chrome and it tucks down to the same slim side tab used by the app.
Documentation
Focus scope & tuck behaviorSidebridge follows the apps you choose. When focus leaves the terminal scope, the panel tucks to a slim side tab — out of the way, one click back.
6:stack*works with your terminal stack
Drop Sidebridge into the setup you already use — anything that runs tmux works on day one. Skip the terminal entirely and it still follows the Codex and Claude Code desktop apps.
7:themes*match your terminal palette
Ships with 30+ themes — Dracula, Tokyo Night, Solarized, Gruvbox, Rosé Pine, Nord, One Dark, and more. Pick the one that matches your terminal so the panel disappears into your setup.
8:history*history and provenance
Focus spans, commits, tool calls, file changes, todo changes, and process shifts become a local timeline you can review by focus or by action, filter, search, export, or hand to an agent.
12 tool calls · 6 files changed · Codex CLI
apply_patch · MarkdownPreview.swift · swift run2 commits · 3 files changed · Codex App
PluginCatalog.swift · 3 hooks reviewed5 todos changed · 16 tool calls · Claude Code
focus-writer.ts · node worker started9:memory*the memory layer
History viewer
A dedicated viewer for the trail Sidebridge captures locally — focus spans grouped by project and day, with the file changes, commits, tool calls, todo deltas, and process shifts inside each. Search it, filter it, export it for a standup, hand it to an agent.
Global Search + activity
Toolbar search finds the active project's loaded Sidebridge context. Global Project Activity extends the cross-repo view beyond today: yesterday and 7-day ranges, focus time, and recent work by repo.
Compiler API
A local API that exposes the active project's state — branch, dirty files, recent commits, focus deltas, tool history, agent brief — as structured data. Plug it into Claude Code, Codex, MCP tools, or your own scripts so they read what you're actually working on.
Agent-editable modules
Agent Brief gives Claude, Codex, or an MCP-enabled tool a structured place to write current state, next actions, blockers, and notes. The sidebar becomes a working surface for both you and the agent.
10:pricing*free + pro · upgrade in the macOS app
Free is focus-aware across every repo and every pane you switch to — git, diffs, files, agent surface, today's cross-repo activity, all of it. Pro adds retained history, project-context search, deeper project activity, exports, richer inspectors, Agent Brief, and structured context for agents.
Follows the active tmux pane or a Codex or Claude Code desktop window. No account, no trial.
History, search, exports, and cross-project activity for people who live in the sidebar.
11:setup*built for the setup you already have
Drag Sidebridge into Applications. Add tmux hooks only if you want terminal-pane tracking.
Start with common terminal apps and Codex, then add any app you want Sidebridge to track.
Keep it global, limit it to your chosen apps, tuck it to a tab, or hide it outside your terminal flow.
12:ship*sidebridge for macOS
Built native for macOS, designed for terminal-heavy, multi-agent development. Launching soon — free to start, with Pro unlocked securely through Polar in the app when you want retained history, search, exports, and deeper project activity.