Open-source desktop app and VS Code panel for Muse Code
Helicon gives Muse Code, Meta's coding agent CLI, a proper home: projects and sessions in one sidebar, readable approvals, inline diffs and your plan meter. Free, MIT, no API key. Windows (no WSL), macOS, Linux, VS Code. Unofficial, not affiliated with Meta.
Hey Product Hunt, Harjot here.
Meta shipped Muse Code in August as a terminal-only agent. I liked the agent and missed everything around it: a list of my sessions, a diff I could read before saying yes, and some idea of what a long thread cost.
So I built Helicon. It runs the muse CLI you already have, on the plan you already pay for:
- Every project and session in one sidebar, including ones you started in the terminal
- Approvals shown exactly as Muse Code asks for them, never bypassed
- Inline diffs where the edit happened
- Your real 5-hour and weekly plan meter, plus what each thread would have cost at API rates
- Native on Windows (no WSL needed), macOS and Linux, plus a VS Code and Open VSX extension
It's free and MIT licensed, and 8 other people have contributed code so far. It's a community project: Meta didn't make it and hasn't endorsed it.
If you want to look before installing anything, helicon.sh/try runs a demo in your browser.
What's the one thing you still drop back to the terminal for? That's what I'll build next.
About Helicon on Product Hunt
“Open-source desktop app and VS Code panel for Muse Code”
Helicon launched on Product Hunt on October 16th, 2026 and earned 58 upvotes and 4 comments, placing #28 on the daily leaderboard. Helicon gives Muse Code, Meta's coding agent CLI, a proper home: projects and sessions in one sidebar, readable approvals, inline diffs and your plan meter. Free, MIT, no API key. Windows (no WSL), macOS, Linux, VS Code. Unofficial, not affiliated with Meta.
On the analytics side, Helicon competes within Open Source, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence and GitHub — topics that collectively have 1.1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Helicon performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Helicon?
Helicon was hunted by Harjot Singh Rana. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Helicon including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Harjot Singh Rana