TasteCode

TasteCode is an open-source agent development environment (ADE) that packages multiple AI coding agents into a single local desktop app. The public beta ships with Codex, Claude Code, and Grok, along with provider-aware models, permissions, and session controls, project and session search, rename and pinning, terminal, browser preview, attachments, git context, and readable diffs. It targets developers who already run these agents day to day and want orchestration, project state, terminal access, diffs, checkpoints, and history to stay local to their machine instead of scattered across cloud tools. The launch matters because it extends the team's earlier project, TasteSkill, an open-source skill framework that stops Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and similar tools from generating generic frontends . TasteCode carries those design opinions into the workspace itself through a built-in Design Mode for inspecting and editing web interfaces , and handles differences between providers by hiding or degrading unavailable controls instead of pretending every provider supports the same features . That framing makes it more useful for teams who care about the look and behavior of shipped UI, not just whether the agent's code compiles. The Windows beta is unsigned and may show a SmartScreen warning, while the macOS beta is Developer ID signed and notarized , with Windows 10/11 x64 and Apple Silicon as the current targets. The project is Apache 2.0 licensed and still in early beta, so this launch is aimed at design-conscious operators and founders who want to try a local, multi-agent alternative to browser-based coding tools and give feedback while the surface area is still small.