Built in the open.

The story

• Canopy started inside another startup, where two founders, one engineer, one not, both changed how they work once agents arrived.
• The non-engineer kept hitting tooling that assumes 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 disease in reverse: too many windows, context lost on every switch, agents scattered across terminals, PR review a browser tab away, so he built the tool he wanted.
• If any of this feels familiar, give us a star, use it, contribute, or support.

What we're building

Canopy makes the agent's own CLI in a real terminal first-class, then wraps it with the two things a terminal can't show you, what changed (live diffs against git) and what's running (every agent session, its branch, task, and footprint), all local-first, offline, and light on a Rust core.

Open source, all the way down

Canopy is developed in the open on GitHub under the MIT License, free to use, modify, and distribute, with issues, PRs, releases, and the full spec all living in the repo.

Who's behind it

Canopy is maintained by Cause Connect Pte. Ltd., a two-founder startup in Singapore, together with its contributors, small by design, so the codebase stays readable and the decisions stay opinionated.

Independence

Canopy is free, carries no ads, sells no data, and answers to no platform, supporting it is what keeps it that way.

Get in touch

• The maker: Shoaib on LinkedIn
• Bugs and ideas: GitHub issues
• Security: see SECURITY.md, please report privately
• The legal bits: Terms of Use and Privacy Policy