CodMate is a macOS SwiftUI app for managing CLI AI sessions: browse, search, organize, resume, and review work produced by Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI. It focuses on speed, a compact three-column UI, and “ship it” workflows like Project Review (Git Changes) and one-click Resume/New.
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CodMate
CodMate is a macOS SwiftUI app for managing CLI AI sessions: browse, search, organize, resume, and review work produced by Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI.
It focuses on speed (incremental indexing + caching), a compact three-column UI, and “ship it” workflows like Project Review (Git Changes) and one-click Resume/New.
I plan to archive CodMate after this update. Here is the reasoning that led me to this decision:
Scope drift with limited new insight: CodMate grew from a simple history viewer into a broader desktop GUI for experience, integration, and workflow consolidation. However, it has not pushed the core exploration of Agents/LLMs as much as I hoped.
Traditional heavyweight GUI is no longer the right center of gravity: the underlying Agent/LLM ecosystem evolves quickly, and a heavier desktop GUI becomes harder to justify when CLI/TUI approaches can iterate faster with less inertia. What feels more important to me now is a broader HUI (Human Usability Interface) direction: designing interfaces that help humans work effectively with rapidly improving AI systems, rather than anchoring exploration to one traditional app surface.
Ecosystem already covers part of the gap: Codex and Claude Code now offer VS Code/Zed extensions that share history with their CLI sessions, which increasingly addresses the original problem CodMate set out to solve.
Model exploration now calls for a different center of gravity: I want to spend more time learning how different model families are best used in practice — not just comparing open or low-cost options, but understanding where each type fits. The community already has strong examples such as , and there are also emerging Generative UI directions such as A2UI that I want to keep watching and learning from. In a time when AI/LLMs are accelerating what can be created through logic alone, I think the human-facing usability layer is becoming more urgent, not less.
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The architecture also boxed the project into macOS: CodMate’s SwiftUI desktop design helped it move quickly at first, but it also constrained the project to one environment. For the next phase, I want more room for cross-platform orchestration and CLI-first experimentation rather than continuing from a macOS-only foundation.
This does not diminish what CodMate achieved. If anything, the recent increase in attention around CodMate makes the tradeoff clearer to me: people are clearly interested in better ways to work with CLI agents, and I still believe interface design around these systems matters deeply. But I no longer think this particular macOS GUI is the best place for me to continue that exploration. The focus shift is toward orchestration, model-specific workflows, HUI, and more portable foundations.
Where this exploration continues
While I will keep many of the ideas behind CodMate in mind, the project I am actively building now is MCPMate.
MCPMate is not a brand-new project. I started shaping it around May last year, paused it around October, and recently returned to it with a clearer view of where MCP has irreplaceable value. It was previously closed-source and is now being reopened in public.
At a high level, MCPMate is a management center for MCP servers and AI clients. The direction I care about most there is usability: building on its earlier profile-based approach for removing redundant capabilities in specific scenarios, and extending its hosted mode toward a more progressively disclosed smart mode. Part of the goal is to bring some of the lower first-token-cost and lower-friction qualities that people appreciated in skills- and CLI-shaped workflows into MCP as well.
So while CodMate is ending here, the broader exploration is not. If CodMate resonated with you, I would love for you to take a look at MCPMate and share feedback.
Projects list with counts, including “All” and an unassigned/Other bucket.
Calendar (pinned bottom) with per-day counts and a Created/Updated toggle.
Directory-based navigation built from session cwd statistics.
Session list:
Default scope is Today for fast first paint.
Sorting: Most Recent (created/updated aware), Duration, Activity, etc.
Rows show title, timestamps/duration, snippet, and compact metrics (user/assistant/tool/reasoning), plus states like running/updating/awaiting follow-up.
Projects + Tasks (workspaces instead of loose logs)
