┌─ [ codelions ] · desktop tools for people who live in their terminals
Two tools. One philosophy.
Codelions builds honest desktop apps for developers who already live in CLIs. Read the source. Read the diffs. Uninstall without leaving a trace.
Two of them so far. Designed as siblings on purpose.
overcli
five coding agents, one honest window
A desktop GUI over claude, codex, gemini, copilot, and ollama. Agents work in isolated git worktrees you can rebase, merge, or throw away from inside the conversation — no terminal context-switch. Conversations, diffs, permission flows, and usage stats in one window. Uses the auth you already have — your Claude Pro, ChatGPT plan, gcloud creds, or GitHub Copilot seat. No API keys, no new bills, no telemetry.
- multi-backend chat with streaming diffs
- workspaces — projects of projects
- agent worktrees — create, rebase, merge from the chat
- silent background agents
overgit
workspaces for repos, worksets for tickets
A desktop git client built on two orthogonal ideas. Workspaces are durable groupings of repos — fetch all, reset all, status all. Worksets are tickets you can resume across repos, pinned to a feature branch — spin up, ship, archive, reset. Smart safety on every destructive flow. Never writes inside .git; uninstall any time and your repos forget overgit ever existed.
- workspaces — fetch all · reset all · status all
- worksets — branch · commit · push · archive · reset
- smart safety on every destructive flow
- AI review & commit-message suggest · gh PRs aggregated
[ why ] · the bar we hold ourselves to
Move fast without losing the thread.
Codelions tools optimize for the fourth afternoon — when you've shipped three things with one, hit a weird edge, and need to understand what happened without breaking stride. The whole point is to keep you moving: a clean local setup where nothing is hidden, so you never stop to untangle what a tool did.
Diffs you can read, tool cards you can read again, permission flows you can follow, history that came from a file on disk. No telemetry. No hidden state. No invented abstractions. If something is on screen, there's a line of code you can find that put it there. That's the bar.
Built by Lionel Farr and his son Owen Farr under Codelions. Open-source — issues and PRs welcome on both repos.