Switching between AI coding agents is chaos. ELVES gives them a shared workspace, shared memory, and a single place to ship from. Works with Claude Code & Codex!
Been hacking on this for a bit and figured I'd share since it scratches a specific itch I kept running into with Claude Code/Codex.
Every session starts cold. Skills and MCP configs are just dotfiles you edit by hand. Running multiple agents means they stomp on each other. And I had zero visibility into which projects were eating my tokens. So we built ELVES to fix that.
Here's what it actually does:
You can browse, edit, and install skills from a UI instead of hand-editing markdown. Same for MCP servers — toggle them on/off instead of messing with JSON. Each task spins up in its own git worktree with an embedded terminal, so you can run multiple agents without conflicts. There's a file explorer with a split view so you can watch the agent work alongside your code. A SQLite-backed memory layer persists context across sessions with relevance decay so old stuff fades out naturally. And it parses the telemetry Claude Code already writes to ~/.claude/ into actual readable dashboards — token usage by model, cache hit rates, session timelines, activity heatmaps, that kind of thing.
Everything is local. No cloud, no accounts. Spawns a real CLI in a PTY, nothing proprietary. Also supports Codex. MIT licensed, free to use.
One heads up — the app isn't notarized by Apple yet, so after installing you'll need to go to System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Still early and rough around the edges. Give it a try and let me know what you think — feedback, feature requests, and issues are all welcome on GitHub.
Manikandan V M