Pane

What Pane is for

Pane is an open source, terminal first AI agent manager described as the open source agentic development environment for running multiple coding agents in parallel. Its tagline is that it runs any coding agent on any operating system from desktop or phone, with the motto that it is just terminals and no abstractions. The README positions Pane as Vim for agent management: it does not replace agents but manages them, and if a tool runs in a terminal it runs in Pane instantly with zero integration. Named agents include Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Aider and Goose, with the claim that no plugins, SDK or waiting for support is needed. The problem it addresses is the friction of juggling terminal windows, copy pasting between tabs and losing track of which agent is on which branch.

Remote Pane and the runpane CLI

The project can run locally or be self hosted as Remote Pane to manage agents from a desktop or phone browser. Installation is offered several ways: a curl or PowerShell one liner for Mac, Linux and Windows that bypasses Gatekeeper or SmartScreen prompts, direct disk image or installer downloads for each platform, and alternative methods through npx, pnpm dlx, pipx run or a persistent npm install with a setup command. The runpane CLI is the command line entry point. The README also mentions Pane Chat and an agent operable CLI, and it links to keyboard shortcuts and a build from source section. The homepage is runpane.com and a Discord community is linked for support.

Licensing and footprint

The README shows an AGPL 3.0 license badge, though the GitHub metadata marks the license as NOASSERTION, so users should confirm the terms in the repository before redistribution. The project carries 395 stars and 198 forks with 58 open issues, reflecting an active and sizable community, and the default branch is main. The practical picture is a cross platform, agent agnostic control surface for parallel coding agents that emphasizes terminals over abstractions and offers both a desktop app and a phone reachable Remote Pane. The high fork and open issue counts suggest rapid development, and the AGPL license carries strong copyleft obligations for anyone building a network service on top of it.

Editorial conclusion

Pane is an agent agnostic, cross platform coding agent manager on the main branch with 395 stars and 198 forks that runs agents in parallel from desktop or phone via Remote Pane, shows an AGPL 3.0 badge though its GitHub license metadata reads NOASSERTION, and installs through curl, installers or npx, pnpm, pipx and npm.