2026 Local agents Early

Parallel.

A native desktop system that drives local coding agents directly. You run Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor from one place, actions wait on human approval before they execute, and a feedback record carries every correction into the next run.

Parallel main shell showing three local agents running with one pending approval, and an agent's plan and file edits streaming in the main panel.
Parallel task board with in-progress, review, proposed, and complete columns, and a Needs Approval label on a task in review.
Task board Work moves through in progress, review, and done, with approvals held in review.
Parallel onboarding screen describing spawning AI agents, real-time monitoring, and team coordination.
First run Spawn local agents, watch them in live terminals, coordinate across the team.
The idea

Parallel drives the CLI coding tools you already use, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, directly on your own machine, coordinated by a stateless orchestrator that can span a whole team. The bet is that agents are most useful when they run where your code already lives, stay under your sign-off, and let your corrections accumulate instead of resetting every session.

How it works
  • You issue a command. A stateless orchestrator, a Claude API call, decides what to do and assembles the context it needs from a set of core documents.
  • Your local client spawns a coding agent on your machine with that context, and its output streams back into the interface.
  • Actions that need sign-off are held at an approval gate before they run.
  • When a reviewer gives feedback, it is processed back into the core documents, so the next agent session inherits every correction.
What it tested

It tested whether feedback could compound instead of evaporating. The result that held up was the feedback record: corrections become memory for the next run, so the system gets more aligned with how you work each time it is used.

Where it sits

It is early: a tested prototype on macOS, with the orchestration, the approval gates, and the feedback loop proven end to end.

Built with
Swift 6 SwiftUI Claude API Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Supabase GRDB
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