Aside — Ask about the work. Don’t interrupt it.<br>A side chat for your coding agents<br>Ask about the work.<br>Don't interrupt it.<br>Aside finds the Codex, Claude Code, and Pi threads already on your Mac. Pick one and ask a separate model what changed, why it chose that path, or what it needs next.<br>Download for Mac ↗Intel Mac<br>Preview for macOS · Signed and notarized
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⌕ Search all threads<br>⌘All agents 3 recent · 17 total2 ⌄atlas 3<br>XPrepare the release codex · activeCAudit the database claude · 8m⌄northstar 2<br>XFix search indexing codex · 22mNeeds you<br>Two threads are waiting.<br>XPrepare the release “Can I restart the signed app now?”<br>now<br>CReview the migration “Which rollback path should I use?”<br>4m
Ask across all agents…↑ChatGPT · fleet
01Two threads need you Aside lifts direct questions out of the background.02Open the right thread Its transcript and side chat stay scoped to that session.03Get the blocker, not a recap A separate model answers without interrupting the agent.
Your agents already run in parallel.<br>Your attention doesn't.
The useful layer beside the work<br>Dashboards show status. Aside lets you ask why.<br>It does not launch agents, steer them, or merge their context. It reads the transcripts they already keep and gives you a second conversation about the work.
01<br>Search the work, not just the title<br>Find the thread from what happened inside it.<br>Search prompts, agent replies, commands, file paths, failures, and Aside side chats across Codex, Claude Code, and Pi—even older work. The index stays on your Mac.<br>Subagent work stays attached: Codex and Claude Code subagents fold beneath the task that spawned them, with a transcript and side chat of their own.
⌕ Railway auto-deploy<br>⌄atlas 2 results<br>Prepare the releaseagent reply<br>Fix the deploymentcommand<br>›Older Threads 12
02<br>Start with the one that needs you<br>Questions rise above activity.<br>Direct input requests and likely questions move to the top. When a live session starts waiting, Aside can send a Mac notification.
aAside now<br>atlas needs you Prepare the release is waiting for your approval.
03<br>One session. One side chat.<br>The second conversation persists.<br>Every discovered session keeps its own conversation and model choice. Close Aside, switch projects, and continue where you stopped.
What needs me right now?Asked now<br>Why did this thread change the schema?Try this<br>What changed while I was away?Try this<br>Which session is failing tests?Try this
Observer, never operator<br>Read-only is a boundary, not a slogan.<br>Aside can read supported agent transcripts and ask an observer model about them. It cannot send a message to an agent, edit a project, or run a command.
01Search and history stay on this Mac.<br>The searchable index, thread list, and every side chat are stored locally with user-only permissions. Search queries never leave your machine.
02Cloud context is scoped.<br>A session chat sends only that session to the model you chose. Common credential patterns are redacted first.
03Your login stays with the vendor.<br>Aside delegates replies to Codex or Claude Code. It never reads their OAuth tokens or imports API keys from your shell.
Need transcript context to stay entirely local? Choose an installed Ollama model for that side chat.
A native Mac utility<br>Install once. Keep working.<br>Drag Aside to Applications and open it. It lives in your menu bar, stays out of the Dock, and downloads future signed updates inside the app.<br>Download for Mac ↗Intel Mac
⌘FileEditView···9:41<br>aAside 2 threads need you
Open Aside ⌘OCheck for Updates ⌘UAside Settings ⌘,
Reads sessions from<br>X CodexC Claude Codeπ Pi
Open source · MIT<br>Aside is open source.
Aside reads local agent transcripts, so the code that does it is public. Read the source, build the app yourself, report an issue, or send a patch.<br>View the source on GitHub ↗
Before you install<br>Straight answers.
Does Aside control my coding agents? +No. Aside is a read-only observer. It cannot message an agent, edit your project, or run commands.<br>Does everything stay local? +Your thread and content-search indexes, plus side-chat history, do. When you choose a cloud model, Aside sends scoped, redacted transcript context to that provider. Choose Ollama to keep model context local.<br>Do I need separate API keys? +No. Aside can use the ChatGPT account already connected through Codex or the Claude account connected through Claude Code. It does not copy their credentials.<br>Which agents are supported? +Aside currently discovers Codex, Claude Code, and Pi transcripts stored on your Mac.<br>How do updates work? +After the first signed install, Aside downloads future signed updates inside the app and asks you to restart when one is ready.
Aside for macOS<br>Know what needs you.<br>Then ask why.<br>Download for Mac ↗Intel Mac