Build
Chat with Toad. It plans, hands the work to agents, and checks what comes back.
- OpenAlt+1
- BrainClaude, Codex, OpenAI-compatible
- Agentsa git worktree each
- PaletteCtrl+K
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How a request flows
- You ask: in plain words, one line or a whole feature.
- Toad plans: breaks it down and picks the agents.
- Agents work: each in its own git worktree, shown here as sessions.
- Toad checks: reviews the results and reports back in the chat.
Pick the brain
- Toad’s brain can run on Claude, Codex, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint: Gemini API, Grok, Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, llama.cpp.
- Choose the model and effort in the composer’s model picker. See Accounts & models.
Steer where work runs
Toad delegates work to agents unless you ask for a pane.
By defaultDelegated agents, shown as sessions here. Results come back to the chat.
“Give me a pane here”A visible pane in CLI you can watch.
“Let me drive”An interactive pane you steer yourself.
Sessions and workspaces
- The sidebar lists every workspace, with its sessions nested underneath: status dot, title, elapsed time.
- Click a session to open it in the middle. Sessions that need you are tinted amber (red if one failed).
- + on a workspace starts a new session: pick the model in the composer, type, press Enter.
- ··· on a workspace: rename, settings, archive or remove. On a session: details or stop.
- + at the top adds a workspace. Ctrl+B hides the sidebar.
Memory
- Toad learns from finished tasks and proposes memories.
- Nothing is saved until you approve it, in the Memory panel (brain icon in the title bar). A dot on it means suggestions are waiting.
- Add, pin, edit or delete what Toad remembers there, for this workspace or globally.
Keep an eye on things
- Toad’s chat sits in the right sidebar, beside your sessions.
- The title-bar buttons swap it for Dashboard, Files, Git, Preview, Terminal, Automations or Memory. Pick several and they stack. See Workbench.
- Switch between Build and CLI in the title bar, or with Alt+1 and Alt+2.