Athena Desktop
A local command room for AI coding agents.
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Luckey Faraday

Athena Desktop - A local command room for AI coding agents.

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Athena is a desktop control surface for AI coding agents with shared project context. Built with Electron, React, and FastAPI, it embeds native terminals for Codex, OpenCode, Claude, and Hermes with Hermes memory integration. Features MCP bridge for cross-platform workspace control, embedded PTY terminals, native session discovery, and more.

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Luckey Faraday
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I built Athena Desktop because I kept bouncing between AI coding agents and losing context: Claude Code in one terminal, Codex in another, old sessions buried on disk, and project notes scattered everywhere. Athena is a local command room for AI coding agents. It embeds native terminals for Codex, OpenCode, Claude Code, and Hermes, resumes sessions already on disk, creates bounded project handoffs, and keeps recall context ready for the next fresh agent. It is open source, local-first, and includes an MCP bridge so agents can help drive the workspace themselves. I would love feedback from anyone using AI agents for coding: what is still painful in your workflow, and what should Athena support next?
Sajid Ullah

One thing I still struggle with when using AI coding agents is losing the reasoning behind earlier decision, the code is usually there, but after switching agents or returning to a project a few days later, it's often difficult to recover why a certain approach was chosen or what assumptions were made at the time.

It would be interesting if Athena could preserve not only the conversation history, but also important project decisions and context that could be passed to future sessions automatically,

the handoff concept you mentioned feels like it could be a strong foundation for that