Splitterm Desktop
Splitterm is a fast tiling terminal you drive by hand. The same app can work through your project's issues in the background, on your own machine, with your project's notes as context. Send work from the web or your phone. Review it when you're back.
Coming soon for Windows. Free forever for the terminal. macOS and Linux in progress.
Pause stops everything in the window. Sample project, sample data.
The terminal
Every shell you have, tiled from the keyboard. Split, drag to re-tile, zoom, and rebind any key. A tab for each project, a second window when you drag a tab out, and your Windows Terminal profiles imported in one click.
After a reboot, your layout comes back per project, and Claude panes resume their session in one click. Files and Git open as tiles when you want them.
Agent features stay out of sight until you set them up. Sign in once to download. After that, the terminal never asks you to sign in.
Hidden window
Idle
Nothing animates while the window is hidden
After a reboot
Restored
Your layout comes back, per project
No usage chip, no runner chip, no bell. Absent, not greyed.
Pane
Open a tile here
Session from yesterday 18:40
How it fits
A project holds your repos, your issues and your notes. An issue becomes a run on one of your own machines. Any of them can run any issue, and if the repo isn't there, it clones it.
The desktop shows the same Issues and Notes as the web, so there's one queue, not two boards. Needs you is one list too: answer it anywhere and it clears everywhere.
The web and your phone come with Pro. The terminal on your desk is free.
Web and phone
Project · project-01
1 queued, starts when it wakes
Terminals stay here
your repos, issues and notes
a piece of work, #numbered
one attempt at an issue on one machine
lasting context for agents. Pin it to load it
a computer with Splitterm open
a terminal you drive
The runner
A run is Claude Code in its own headless mode, on your machine, in its own copy of the repo on its own branch: one per attempt. Nothing types into a terminal to steer it.
The agent talks back through Splitterm: it asks, plans, reports and presents. Every state says why it's in that state. Every stuck run has a next move: Answer, Take over or Retry clean.
You can always read exactly what the agent was told.
Projects
project-01
project-02
project-03
This machine
Home PC
Nights, 22:00 to 07:00
1 running · 1 held
Needs you2
#58Fix timezone bug in recurring payments38m
project-01-apiQuestion
#62Add audit log for refunds6m
project-01-apiPlan to approve
Running1
#60Add dark mode to settings41m
project-01-webRunning tests (2 of 3 suites)
Held and queued1
#59Upgrade the Postgres driver
project-01-apiHeld · Keeping 30% of your 5h window for you. Starts at 01:40.
In review1
#57Export invoices as CSV
project-01-webRevision 2
Branches on this machine: 4 · 1.8 GB · 1 not pushed yet (protected)
#58 Fix timezone bug in recurring payments
Home PCst/58-recurring-tzattempt 1sent from the web at 23:02
The agent asks
Store recurring times in UTC or in the account's timezone?
Asked a question23:40
This machine
Home PC
Nights, 22:00 to 07:00
1 running · 1 held
Answer: from any device
Take over: finish it yourself in a pane
Retry clean: a fresh attempt from the base branch that carries the last attempt's summary
File it at night, review it in the morning. Watch one night with the runner
Panes and runs
Drag a run into your grid to watch it in your own terminal font. If it heads the wrong way, Take over turns it into a live Claude pane on the same session, on the run's own branch. Hand it back when you're done.
Wrong file.
Keep going without meCtrl+K from a Claude pane
Leaving mid-task? Turn what you're doing into a run on its own branch, so your folder stays yours.
Goal: Finish moving forms to the new validation helper
Files #64, copies your uncommitted changes into st/64-validation-helper and carries on there.
A stack trace shows up in a pane. One shortcut turns it into an issue, with the last output attached if you want it.
File from this pane
Ctrl+IProject
project-01
Repo
project-01-api
from pane
Branch
main
from pane
RangeError: Invalid time value
at toZonedTime (src/jobs/recurring.ts:88:17)
at nextRunAt (src/jobs/recurring.ts:41:10)
at scheduleAll (src/jobs/scheduler.ts:23:5)
at async runTick (src/jobs/scheduler.ts:57:3)
Job recurring-payments failed at 02:30 (Europe/Berlin)Exactly these 6 lines are attached.
Criteria
One per line, ticked at review
Only what is shown here leaves this machine
CancelFile #66Project context
Notes are titled and filed in a folder or bound to a repo. Pin one and it's In context: it loads into every run, and into every Claude pane you start from the Claude preset, from outside your repo. You can see exactly what an agent was told and how big it is, so the context stays lean.
Want it in a plain claude you type yourself? One optional click, Add Splitterm to Claude Code, and those sessions get it too.
Agents can suggest notes when they learn something lasting. Only you pin them.
In context · 3 notes · 2.1k tokens · loaded into 2 panes and 1 run
Warns above about 8k tokens
Pinned3
Suggested by agents1
Stripe webhook retries
Agent · Home PC · #58 · not pinned
Goes in
What it was told · 3.1k tokens
## project-01: pinned notes
- Money is always integer cents
- API errors are { code, message }, codes in docs/errors.md
- Run locally: npm run dev in project-01-web
## Issue #60: Add dark mode to settings
Criteria: a Theme menu in Settings; follows the system by default
One block, shown verbatim on every run
#60 on Home PC
a run
Claude · project-01-api
Context: 3 notes
More on request
notes_search
Your repo's CLAUDE.md still loads as usual. Splitterm writes nothing into your repo.
Review
When a run is done it presents its work: a summary, what changed and screenshots of the result. Tick the acceptance criteria, leave a comment, or open a terminal on the run's branch and try it yourself.
Request changes goes back to the same session. Approve asks once, then the agent rebases, runs the checks and opens the pull request.
#57 Export invoices as CSV
In reviewRan on Home PCst/57-export-csvpushed
Presentationsample data
Added Export CSV to the invoice list. It exports every invoice in the chosen date range, with amounts written from integer cents as two-decimal values. A preview shows the first rows before anything downloads.
What changed in revision 2: header row is bold
Screenshots and pinned comments
Header row should be bold
Addressed in revision 2
7 files · +212 -38
41m · 412k in · 38.9k out · Claude Sonnet 5
git fetch origin st/57-export-csv && git switch st/57-export-csvA run that changed nothing lands in Needs you as Finished, no changes. It never lands in Done.
From another machine, Check out here makes a fresh copy from the pushed branch. It never switches your working copy.
This machine
Only you, at the machine, can turn the runner on. From the web or your phone you can send work, pause it or stop it, but never switch it on.
Setup ends with a short test run, so you see the whole loop work before you trust it overnight.
Leave room for me holds new runs before they eat the window you need. Anything outside your run policy asks you first.
Setup
4 steps
Checks, a name, a schedule and a test run
Switching on
Only here
The web can pause the runner, never start it
A
Checks
Name this machine
Home PC
When and how much
Nights, 2 at once, Leave room for me. See B.
Test run
One-minute test: read the repo and present a five-line summary
Running
Once per machine. You can change any of it later.
B
Turned on here. The web can pause it, never turn it on.
The schedule decides when runs start. A run that has started always finishes.
1 on laptops, 2 on desktops.
C
5-hour window72%
resets 14:05your 30% starts at the line
Week61%
resets Mon 09:00your 15% starts at the line
Opus, week18%
Sonnet, week44%
#65Add a yearly summary report
Held: outside Nights. Starts at 22:00.
#58 asks: Allow npm install date-fns-tz?
Receipt#6352m · 388k in · 41.2k out · Claude Sonnet 5
Stop everything on Home PC
One button on the web stops every run there and pauses the runner. Turning it back on still takes you, at the machine.
Resumed after restart
If the PC restarts mid-run, the run picks up on the same session when Splitterm opens, and says so.
Quiet while you type
No toast while you are typing in a pane. Finished runs wait in Needs you without a sound, and quiet hours hold every alert until morning.
Local first
What you type, what your shells print and your code are never sent to Splitterm. Your code goes to GitHub through your own git.
If you link a project, only what the web needs to show your work goes to Splitterm, and a log in Settings shows every request with its size and purpose. Your Claude login stays where Claude Code keeps it.
No remote view of your terminals. On purpose.
Sign out and every project, note and branch stays on disk as a local project.
Runs send what Claude Code sends to Anthropic, with your own login, the same as running claude yourself. That traffic is Claude Code's, so the log below lists only what Splitterm itself sends.
What Splitterm sends
Pause usage sharing| Time | Destination | What | Size | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:40:12 | Splitterm | heartbeat | 312 B | Home PC is online |
| 07:40:15 | Splitterm | run #63 state | 1.1 KB | state and one activity line |
| 07:41:02 | Anthropic | usage | 410 B | your limits; the token never goes to Splitterm |
| 07:41:03 | Splitterm | usage share | 96 B | 5h and week percentages only |
| 07:44:30 | Image storage | screenshot for #63 | 184 KB | presented for review |
07:40:12Splitterm312 B
heartbeat
Home PC is online
07:40:15Splitterm1.1 KB
run #63 state
state and one activity line
07:41:02Anthropic410 B
usage
your limits; the token never goes to Splitterm
07:41:03Splitterm96 B
usage share
5h and week percentages only
07:44:30Image storage184 KB
screenshot for #63
presented for review
Pricing
Free gives you the full terminal, forever, and one agent team with issues, notes and the runner on your own machine.
Pro is $8 per month or $75 per year: unlimited agent teams, cloud sync, and the dashboard on the web and your phone.
$0forever
Free account required to download
$8per month
Billed monthly
A free account gets you the download. The terminal never asks you to sign in again.
Runs use your own Claude account, so model usage isn't included.
Every plan detail is on the pricing page.
Free for the terminal, forever. Pro when your projects need the web and your phone.
Coming soon for Windows. macOS and Linux in progress.