A side chat for your coding agents
Aside finds the Codex, Claude Code, and Pi threads already on your Mac. Pick one and ask a separate model what changed, why it chose that path, or what it needs next.
Preview for macOS · Signed and notarized
Needs you
Your agents already run in parallel.
The useful layer beside the work
It does not launch agents, steer them, or merge their context. It reads the transcripts they already keep and gives you a second conversation about the work.
Search the work, not just the title
Search prompts, agent replies, commands, file paths, failures, and Aside side chats across Codex, Claude Code, and Pi—even older work. The index stays on your Mac.
Subagent work stays attached: Codex and Claude Code subagents fold beneath the task that spawned them, with a transcript and side chat of their own.
Start with the one that needs you
Direct input requests and likely questions move to the top. When a live session starts waiting, Aside can send a Mac notification.
One session. One side chat.
Every discovered session keeps its own conversation and model choice. Close Aside, switch projects, and continue where you stopped.
Observer, never operator
Aside can read supported agent transcripts and ask an observer model about them. It cannot send a message to an agent, edit a project, or run a command.
The searchable index, thread list, and every side chat are stored locally with user-only permissions. Search queries never leave your machine.
A session chat sends only that session to the model you chose. Common credential patterns are redacted first.
Aside delegates replies to Codex or Claude Code. It never reads their OAuth tokens or imports API keys from your shell.
Choose an installed Ollama model for that side chat.
A native Mac utility
Drag Aside to Applications and open it. It lives in your menu bar, stays out of the Dock, and downloads future signed updates inside the app.
Reads sessions from
Before you install
No. Aside is a read-only observer. It cannot message an agent, edit your project, or run commands.
Your thread and content-search indexes, plus side-chat history, do. When you choose a cloud model, Aside sends scoped, redacted transcript context to that provider. Choose Ollama to keep model context local.
No. Aside can use the ChatGPT account already connected through Codex or the Claude account connected through Claude Code. It does not copy their credentials.
Aside currently discovers Codex, Claude Code, and Pi transcripts stored on your Mac.
After the first signed install, Aside downloads future signed updates inside the app and asks you to restart when one is ready.
