Product and company

Built for founders who operate more than one product at a time.

CmdBrief gives every product a local workspace for Codex, Claude Code, terminals, daily goals, tasks, files, browser context, and usage limits—because founder work continues long after the first prompt or commit.

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1 windowfor the whole portfolio
4first-class coding agents
13built-in themes
1 yearof goal history
Recorded from the current build, not a mockup — one agent pausing for approval before it runs cargo test, another writing the docs next door.
Origin story

The product started with a simple problem: more products than one founder could keep in working memory.

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

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.

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.

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

CmdBrief is opinionated about founder work.

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

One window for the portfolio

A workspace per project, split panes where the work happens, and status that rolls up before a missed approval becomes a lost afternoon.

Evidence beside the agent

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

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, built and shipped in the open.

CmdBrief is built in the open enough for users to understand the direction, with signed macOS builds, onboarding, and feedback loops live for real users.

2025Founded

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

2026-07Private beta

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

2026-08-06Generally available

Open registration with secure accounts and Stripe billing on macOS.

Current stageGenerally available
First platformmacOS
Core workflowsCodex, Claude Code, 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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Running more products than your current setup can comfortably hold?

Share how you build, launch, market, and review results today, or tell us where switching between products loses momentum.

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6 questions

  • 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.

  • Product footage on this site is recorded from the current build, not mockups; changelog updates ship with the builds; and feedback loops stay live for real users. If the product cannot do it on your Mac today, the site does not claim it can.

  • 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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