Openbase Coder is a voice IDE for real engineering work. Speak a task, keep a live coding call open, steer long-running agent threads, approve sensitive actions, read reports, and review diffs from the same control surface.
This repository is the main open-source entry point for Openbase Coder. It
contains the local openbase-coder runtime, the public product docs, the
developer setup path, and the service layer used by the Mac app, iOS app, web
console, and Openbase Cloud.
Openbase Coder is built around the actual loop of AI-assisted engineering: describe the change, let agents work, keep the thread moving, approve the risky parts, and inspect the result before it lands.
Core workflows are:
- Start and steer coding work by voice through a dispatcher agent.
- Route an active voice call between the dispatcher and individual Super Agents.
- Track running, waiting, completed, and failed coding threads.
- Continue threads from the Mac app, browser console, iOS app, or CLI.
- Approve or deny agent permission requests without babysitting a terminal.
- Review live output, generated Markdown reports, and git diffs.
- Browse projects, reports, routines, skills, templates, devices, service health, and runtime settings from the shared dashboard.
- Use your iPhone as the remote control for calls, approvals, reports, diffs, and thread follow-up.
- Run the local runtime on your Mac, a Linux machine, or an Openbase Cloud DevSpace.
- Extend the runtime with plugins, skills, routines, bootstrap commands, and console pages.
Openbase Coder has several user-facing surfaces backed by the local
openbase-coder runtime:
- Mac app: the recommended starting point. It bundles the CLI, runs guided setup, hosts the dashboard, manages updates, and can share your screen into the active voice room.
- iOS app: the voice and review client. Start calls, transfer voice to agents, follow threads, handle approvals, read reports, and inspect diffs from your phone.
- Web console: the same dashboard served in a browser by the local runtime.
- CLI: the local service manager and automation surface for setup, login, services, plugins, routines, voice routing, diagnostics, and development.
- Openbase Cloud: account, OAuth, device onboarding, subscriptions, and cloud DevSpaces.
The CLI runs the local Django API, WebSocket endpoints, LiveKit voice services, Codex/Super Agents coordination, project and diff APIs, plugin system, bundled agent instructions, skills, and console assets.
Most users should install the Mac app first:
- Download Openbase Coder for macOS from openbase.cloud/downloads.
- Open the app and follow guided setup. The app activates the bundled CLI, checks prerequisites, lets you choose a coding backend and voice provider, signs you in, and helps pair your iPhone over Tailscale.
- Install the iOS beta from the Downloads page if you want the phone control surface for voice calls, approvals, reports, and diffs.
Openbase Coder is developed as a multi-repo workspace. Clone the workspace repo for source development, even if you are mainly changing the CLI:
uv tool install multi-workspace
git clone https://github.com/openbase-community/openbase-coder-workspace
cd openbase-coder-workspace
./scripts/setupThe workspace setup syncs the public development repos with multi, builds the
console from source, and runs openbase-coder setup --workspace-dir against the
checkout. The CLI source for this repository lives at cli/ inside the
workspace.
For CLI-only development after workspace setup:
cd cli
uv sync --extra dev
uv run openbase-coder --version
uv run pytestIf you want a persistent openbase-coder command backed by your checkout:
uv tool install -e ./cliThe product docs live in this repository under docs/ and are published at
docs.openbase.cloud.
Web Console and Openbase Cloud
Openbase Coder is in beta. Please help shape the product by opening a GitHub issue or joining the community on Discord.
The open-source Openbase Coder CLI/runtime is licensed under AGPL-3.0-only.
