Zeus
Native macOS control plane for coding agents. Run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode, Gemini, and a catalog of other CLIs in parallel, locally or over SSH. Each session is a real PTY with a live status (working, needs you, done). Closing the window never kills an agent. A daemon restart brings the conversations back.
Zeus is not an IDE and not a model. It is the place you watch a fleet, jump to the session that is stuck, and accept the work.
Install
Zeus requires macOS 15 or newer. Download the current universal DMG from Releases, drag Zeus to Applications, then complete the one-time Gatekeeper exception. The current release is ad-hoc signed and is not available through Homebrew.
See Getting started or the illustrated macOS install guide for the complete installation flow.
In this book
| Section | What it covers |
|---|---|
| Getting started | First project, first session, first quit |
| The workbench | Sidebar, inspector, lineage tree, overview |
| Keyboard | Every shortcut that matters |
| Agents and status | Catalog, resume, what the colors mean |
| Worktrees | Isolated checkouts for parallel edits |
| Orchestration | MCP spawn, wait, prompt, read |
| Fleet patterns | Ways to run more agents than you can watch |
| Settings | Defaults, layout, hibernate, hosts |
| Command line | zeus session, worktrees, doctor |
| Remote hosts | SSH machines in Settings → Remote |
| Remote nodes | First-party zeus-node on a VPS |
| Updates | How auto-update works |
| Security model | Trust boundaries |
| Privacy | Local data and network activity |
| Support | Diagnostics and logs |
| Roadmap | Product direction |