This page explains Local Agent Workbench in plain language.
Local Agent Workbench is a local tool for opening several Codex CLI sessions in one terminal window.
Instead of asking one AI assistant to think about everything at once, you can give different panes different jobs:
- one pane investigates the problem
- one pane checks the code path
- one pane thinks about tests
- one pane looks for safety risks
- one pane drafts the final summary
All panes work in the same local folder, so their notes and output stay together.
One chat window is useful, but it can become crowded when the task is complex.
Open source maintenance often needs several kinds of thinking at the same time: issue triage, pull request review, release checks, test planning, and documentation. This project makes that workflow repeatable.
- Investigating GitHub issues
- Reviewing pull requests
- Preparing releases
- Comparing feature ideas
- Keeping reusable Markdown notes
- Running 4, 6, or 9 Codex CLI panes against one workspace
Imagine a school project. If one student does everything, it is slow and easy to miss something.
If a small team splits the work, one student can research, one can check facts, one can write, and one can review.
Local Agent Workbench gives Codex CLI a similar team-like workspace. The final decision still belongs to the human user.
- It does not run in the browser on GitHub.
- It does not publish your local Mac files.
- It does not automatically merge code.
- It does not replace human review.
It is a local workbench for organizing AI-assisted thinking.