| title | Introduction to ADE |
|---|---|
| description | ADE is the Agentic Development Environment — a desktop DevOps cockpit for orchestrating parallel AI coding agents across multiple git worktrees. |
| icon | book-open |
ADE is a macOS desktop application for running parallel AI coding agents against the same repository. Each task gets its own isolated lane, context is kept warm, and merge risk is surfaced early.
You decide the work. ADE coordinates the execution.
Take the shortest path from install to your first working agent. Learn how ADE thinks about lanes, missions, the CTO agent, and packs. Explore the product by capability instead of digging through one long page. Configure providers, permissions, and external connections.AI coding agents are fast. Parallel AI work is where things break down:
- Conflicts show up too late: two agents touch the same files and you do not see the collision until merge time.
- Context resets constantly: each agent starts from a colder prompt than it should.
- Oversight is fragmented: sessions, branches, costs, and artifacts live in separate tools.
- Execution gets noisy: you can launch work, but it is hard to track quality, ownership, and state.
ADE addresses that with isolated lanes, durable context packs, missions, a coordinator agent, and a workspace-wide view of branch state.
Install ADE, add a provider, open a repo, create a lane, and run your first task. ADE's isolated workspaces for parallel branches and agents. Structured execution when the work needs planning, validation, or audit history. Persistent project coordination and delegated worker management. Files, terminals, graph, conflicts, PRs, and history. Provider credentials, ADE CLI, permissions, and editor-specific setup. Every meaningful task should have its own lane. Source code, secrets, and artifacts stay on your machine. ADE tracks runs, costs, sessions, and branch state in one place.