eranif/kennel

Kennel is a desktop app for people who run AI coding assistants like Claude Code, Kiro CLI, or OpenAI Codex from the command line. Instead of juggling a dozen terminal tabs and losing track of which agent is waiting on you, Kennel puts every agent session into one window with a sidebar you can organize. Each running agent is called a session, and sessions live inside groups you name yourself, such as Work or Experiments. You can collapse a group when you are not using it and reopen it later. The sidebar shows a spinner on any session that is still busy, so you can tell at a glance which agents are working and which are done and waiting for you. The standout feature is persistence. If you close Kennel or restart your computer, every session comes back exactly where it left off, using each tool's own resume option, such as Claude's continue flag or Kiro's resume flag. You do not have to remember what you were doing or retype context. Each session runs as a real terminal window, so anything that works in your normal shell, colors, prompts, and interactive input, works the same way inside Kennel. Beyond the three agents it ships with, you can define your own through a short setup wizard, pointing it at any executable, whether that program runs on your own machine or on a remote server you connect to over SSH. Setup involves choosing local or remote, naming the agent and its launch command, and optionally setting a custom shell and environment variables. Kennel is built in C++, distributed as installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and released under the BSD 3-Clause license, which is permissive and allows free use including commercial use.