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Built for founders who runmore than one product at a time.

A founder sets direction, agents do bounded work, and evidence comes back for review. CmdBrief keeps those decisions with the product: the lead and its crew, Standard conversations, files, diffs and browser context.

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1 window
for the whole portfolio
6
supported coding agents
13
built-in themes
1 year
of goal history
Standard agent panes · 20 seconds · silent
Staged native CmdBrief UI from the September 2026 development build, using sample work. The downloadable release may differ.

Origin story

More products than one founder could keep in working memory.

AI agents made building faster, but the work around it stayed fragmented. One product needs an approval, another a release check, another launch work, another a traffic review. CmdBrief is shaped around keeping that portfolio visible without turning the founder into a full-time coordinator.

  • 01 · Why CmdBrief exists

    Built from operating real product portfolios

    CmdBrief came from building, launching, and growing several products at once while supervising Codex, Claude Code, shells, browser tools, and local dev servers.

  • 02 · Why CmdBrief exists

    Designed around founder attention

    The product treats needs-action prompts, usage windows, blocked runs, tasks, and session resume as portfolio state instead of details a founder must remember. A daily goals overlay keeps the day's intent always on top, with a year of history, a month heatmap, and a streak so momentum outlives any single day.

  • 03 · Why CmdBrief exists

    Practical safety, not theater

    Shared workspaces demote auto-run commands, project context stays local, and privileged actions are made visible so builders can review before they ship.

Product principles

Opinionated about founder work.

Narrow on purpose: technical founders on macOS, local product workspaces, terminal-first agents, and the daily work of keeping several products moving.

  1. 01

    One window for the portfolio

    A workspace per product. A lead agent runs the crew, and Standard panes give every agent conversation room to work side by side.

  2. 02

    Evidence beside the agent

    Git state, command history, files, tasks, and browser context belong next to the session that changed the code.

  3. 03

    Native performance matters

    CmdBrief is a Rust macOS app with a real terminal underneath because agent work gets heavy, long-lived, and local.

How we build

A focused workspace, shipped in the open.

Signed macOS builds, onboarding and feedback loops are live for real users, so you can see where the product is going.

  1. 2025Founded

    Born from running a portfolio of products with agent teams in the terminal — and the state that piles up between the prompts.

  2. 2026-07Private beta

    Signed macOS builds and onboarding in front of real builders running Codex and Claude Code across product portfolios.

  3. 2026-08-06Generally available

    Open registration with secure accounts and Stripe billing on macOS.

Current stage
Generally available
First platform
macOS
Core workflows
Lead and crew runs, Claude Code, Codex, Grok CLI, Kimi CLI, OpenCode, and Cursor CLI, shell, tasks, daily goals

What we will not do

No cloud takeover of your code.

CmdBrief is not trying to replace your repository, your terminal agent or your judgment. It is the local control surface around the work, so you can see what happened and decide what ships.

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Who is behind it, and what we believe.

Who is behind CmdBrief, what the team believes about agent work, and how the product stays honest with its users.

  • CmdBrief is built by a small team of senior engineers and terminal maximalists who use Claude Code and Codex daily while operating real products. The product is shaped by that work, not by a roadmap written away from the terminal.

  • AI agents made building faster, but the surrounding work stayed fragmented: one product needing an approval, another a release check, another a traffic review. CmdBrief started from running a portfolio of products with agent teams and treating that coordination as the real constraint a founder faces.

  • Practical safety, not theater: shared workspaces demote auto-run commands, project context stays local, and privileged actions are made visible so a builder can review before anything ships. The permission boundary is the product's job, not an afterthought.

  • CmdBrief treats agent supervision as an operational problem: show state clearly, keep repositories local, and make permission boundaries visible before a tool can affect real work. A tool that hides what it is doing is not a supervision tool.

  • The site includes real CmdBrief recordings with capture dates. The changelog describes recent app releases, and the guides distinguish documented capabilities from hands-on checks. Current requirements and pricing are shown before you download.

  • Yes. The most useful contribution right now is feedback from technical founders running Claude Code, Codex, or other agent CLIs across real product portfolios — what coordination broke your flow, and what CmdBrief should own next. Reach out through the contact page.

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A native Mac workspace where a lead agent runs a crew of coding agents, and brings you only the decisions that are yours.

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