Wrangle your coding agents
Three agents running on your Mac, one text for status. Approve, steer, and ship from your phone.
Pally can start and supervise real coding agent sessions — Claude Code or Codex — on your own Mac, each in its own isolated checkout. Ask for status, answer their permission asks, and redirect a run mid-flight, all from the same thread as everything else.
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How it works
With the Mac companion app installed and a folder granted, tell pally what to build and where. It starts a supervised Claude Code or Codex session on your Mac in an isolated checkout of the repo, so parallel tasks never trample each other or your working copy.
Run as many tasks as you have ideas. Each gets a short name that becomes its handle, and one text gets you the fleet's real state: which sessions are running, which finished, and which are waiting on you — pulled from the actual session records, not a hopeful summary.
Agents pause and ask when they hit something risky, and those asks come to you in the thread: run the migration, install the dependency, push the branch. You answer in plain text. Each task runs guided by default; hands-free autonomy inside its checkout is opt-in, per task.
Steering is live, not a restart. Tell a mid-run session to switch libraries, tighten scope, or explain itself, and the instruction lands in that session. When work is done, the results go through your normal review — pally reports what happened with the evidence to back it.
A useful fit
Good for
- Checking every running session with one text
- Answering an agent's permission ask from your phone
- Redirecting a run that's headed the wrong way
- Keeping parallel tasks in isolated checkouts
- Kicking off the next task the moment you think of it
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Things to try
Before you start
Common questions
Where does the code actually run?+
On your own Mac, through pally's companion app, in folders you granted. Each task works in an isolated checkout of your repo, and the agents run under your own developer accounts. Your code stays on your machine.
How is this different from Ship it from your phone?+
Ship it queues one coding task against a GitHub repo and texts you the PR. This recipe is the fleet view for agents running on your Mac: several sessions at once, live status, permission asks answered in chat, and mid-run steering.
Will an agent do something risky without asking?+
Not in the default mode. Sessions run guided: risky actions pause and ask, and the ask reaches you in the thread. You can opt a specific task into hands-free autonomy inside its own checkout when you trust the run.
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Last updated August 20, 2026.
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