About
Built in the open, by people who needed it.
The way people write software changed. Agents write the code; you direct and review it. Canopy is the IDE we wanted for that work.
The story
One of us writes code. One of us doesn't.
Canopy started inside another startup. Its two founders, one an engineer and one not, both changed how they worked once agents arrived.
The non-engineer kept hitting tools that assume years of muscle memory: running an IDE and an agent at once, starting a dev server, juggling projects. His ideas were never the bottleneck. The tools were.
The engineer had the same problem in reverse: too many windows, context lost on every switch, agents scattered across terminals, and pull request review a browser tab away. So he built the tool he wanted.
What we're building
Keep the agent's own CLI. Add what a terminal can't show.
Your agent runs in a real terminal. Canopy adds what changed, what's running and what needs you, on a Rust core that stays light.
- License
- MIT. Use, change and share it, commercially or not.
- Developed
- In the open on GitHub: issues, pull requests, releases and the spec
- Maintained by
- Cause Connect Pte. Ltd., a two-founder startup in Singapore, and its contributors
- Independence
- The app is free, with no ads and no sold data. Your support keeps it that way.
Get in touch
Talk to the people who build it.
The maker
Shoaib on LinkedIn
Say hello, or tell us what you're building.
Bugs and ideas
GitHub issues
Report a problem or suggest a feature, in public.
Security
Report privately
Follow SECURITY.md. Please don't open a public issue.
The legal bits: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
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Star the project, try it on real work, or contribute.