One little creature per Claude Code chat and subagent, wandering along the bottom of your screen. A glance tells you what your agents are up to.
Running five chats at once is easy. Knowing which one is waiting on you still means alt-tabbing to find out.
Crew watches through hook scripts, so anything that speaks the same lifecycle gets a creature. Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Cursor sessions stand side by side on the same row — the species comes from the repo, not the tool.
A subagent always gets the same species, so you learn to read the row. Every chat hashes into one of the ten and keeps it — for that repo, on any machine. The other seven are not in the hash at all: one repo in sixty-four rolls a rare instead, and which of the seven is a separate roll again.
When a command needs permission, the creature raises the command and two buttons. Click Allow and the agent carries on. You never switch to the terminal to unblock it, which is the whole point when four sessions are running.
Click any critter and the terminal running that Claude Code chat comes to the front. Your whole session list becomes one click away, which is the fastest way to juggle parallel agents.
Thinking, running a tool, waiting on you, done. Read the room without alt-tabbing.
When a session is blocked, its creature hops up and flags you down.
Subagents huddle on a platform beneath the chat that spawned them.
Reads local status files only. Nothing about your work leaves the machine, on either platform.
New in 2.0. Both clients share the same hook protocol and the same art, so a repo gets the same creature either side.
When a session repeats itself — same test failing, same file rewritten — the creature paces and offers you a clean one in the same directory.
When every session is asleep after dark, the crew gathers round a fire until something wakes up.
No account, no subscription. Pay once if you want the toys and the numbers.
Pay, and I send you a licence key tied to your Mac. Paste it once and Pro is on for good, verified on your own machine with nothing sent anywhere. If it is not for you, tell me and I refund it.
Unzip it, drag it in, click Connect. You'll meet your first creature inside a minute.
Free, forever. macOS 13 or newer (Apple Silicon and Intel), or Windows 10 and 11.
One universal build per platform. It sets up its own Claude Code hooks on first launch, and the same repo gets the same creature on either machine.
Crew is not notarised yet, so a browser download gets flagged and the first launch needs right-click → Open. curl does not quarantine what it fetches, so installing from the terminal avoids both.
curl -fsSL https://crew-deskmates.vercel.app/crew/get.sh | bash
get.sh is 33 lines. Read it first if you like.
sha256 a604481031c6b31cd65f20c529bbf230b706479dc9c86478cc65471aa352fb63
Crew is free and stays free. If it made your day better, send whatever you like toward actual animals instead of to me.
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No subscription, no account. A licence key tied to your Mac, verified on that Mac, yours for good.
On Windows, Crew is free with everything unlocked — Pro is macOS-only for now, so there is nothing to buy there yet.
Keys are issued per Mac, so send the code from the machine you want it on.
Not for you? Tell me and I refund it, no questions.