A Claude Code manager for all your projects

A Claude Code manager is a desktop app that sits on top of Claude Code and gives you a graphical way to run it across many projects at once — instead of juggling one terminal window per repo. Claude Code itself is Anthropic's agentic coding tool; it's excellent at planning and executing multi-step changes inside a single repository. What it doesn't do is give you a place to see and steer every project you're running it in.

Aiola is that place. It's a local desktop app that turns Claude Code into a managed, multi-project workspace: parallel threads, a central view across every repo, tasks that trigger agents, and an operations layer — app logs, analytics, feedback, and automations — around the code.

The moment you're running Claude Code in more than one repo, the hard part stops being the code and starts being context. Which project had which thread? What did the agent change yesterday in the other app? Where's the task you meant to hand off? With bare terminals, that state lives in your head and in a dozen tabs.

A Claude Code manager solves the coordination problem:

• One window shows every project's active threads, recent changes, and pending tasks.
• Threads keep each line of work isolated, so a fix in one repo never bleeds into another.
• Tasks and automations let agents keep working on a schedule instead of only when you're watching.

Aiola wraps Claude Code with the surfaces a multi-project workflow needs:

• Threads — each thread is an independent Claude Code session with chat, diffs, branches, a terminal, and a built-in browser. Run several in parallel and split them side by side.
• Tasks — a per-project board that can trigger a Claude Code agent and hand the result back as a pull request.
• Automations — schedule recurring Claude Code jobs (triage, checks, summaries) that run on your machine with your subscription.
• GitHub, app logs, analytics, and feedback — the operations layer that lives next to the code, not in five other tools.
• A central cross-project dashboard so you steer the whole portfolio, not one repo at a time.

Most Claude Code GUIs manage only Claude. Aiola orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok CLI, and OpenCode from one app, on your own subscriptions. Pick the provider per thread or per task, and switch depending on the job — one agent for a refactor, another for a quick fix — without leaving the workspace. That cross-vendor reach is the difference between a single-tool GUI and a real command center.

The best inputs have a clear repository, outcome, and stopping condition. A bug with a reproducible error, a small feature with acceptance criteria, or a recurring maintenance check fits naturally into a task and thread. Attach the relevant project context, choose whether the work belongs in the current checkout or a git worktree, and keep unrelated changes in another thread. This makes the resulting diff easier to understand and prevents two active jobs from competing for the same files.

Keep product decisions, security approval, destructive migrations, and final merge authority with a person. Aiola can make app logs, feedback, analytics, and GitHub state available beside the agent, but those signals do not prove that a proposed fix is correct. Read the diff, run the project's tests, inspect generated files, and confirm any external side effects before creating or merging a pull request. If the task is ambiguous, refine it in the board or thread instead of starting more parallel agents.

Provider choice also stays explicit. Claude Code can remain the focus of this workflow while a particular thread uses Codex, Cursor, Grok CLI, or OpenCode. Grok uses your authenticated Grok CLI access; Aiola probes the installed CLI for the models that subscription offers. The manager coordinates the work and records, while authentication, model availability, rate limits, and billing remain with each provider.

Aiola runs Claude Code on your own machine, against your own repositories. Your code is never uploaded to Aiola — it stays on your machine and goes only to the AI provider you already subscribe to — there's no cloud runner, no compute resale, and no API-key middleman. Threads, tasks, notes, and automations are stored locally. Optional analytics, logs, and feedback telemetry from shipped products is ingested through Aiola's cloud. Read more about how Aiola keeps your data yours.

Aiola runs on macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows 10+ (64-bit). If you're on Windows, that matters: several Claude Code GUIs are macOS-only. See the Claude Code manager for Windows guide, or just download Aiola.