Workbench

A TUI (Terminal User Interface) for managing AI agent workspaces and sessions.

Features

• Manage multiple workspaces and sessions
• PTY support for running terminal sessions
• ANSI color rendering
• Audio playback support
• Clipboard integration

Prerequisites

Required

• Rust (1.70 or later)

AI Agents (install the ones you want to use)

• Claude Code - claude CLI for Anthropic's Claude
• Gemini CLI - gemini CLI for Google's Gemini
• Codex CLI - codex CLI for OpenAI's Codex
• Grok CLI - grok CLI for xAI's Grok

Optional Dependencies (for full feature support)

Audio/Sounds

• VLC - Required for classical radio streaming

  # macOS
  brew install vlc
  
  # Ubuntu/Debian
  sudo apt install vlc

• FFmpeg - Required for ambient sounds (ocean, chimes, rain, brown noise)

  # macOS
  brew install ffmpeg
  
  # Ubuntu/Debian
  sudo apt install ffmpeg

Installation

From source

git clone https://github.com/stefanlenoach/workbench.git
cd workbench
cargo build --release

The binary will be at target/release/workbench.

Install globally

cargo install --path .

Usage

Run the TUI

workbench

Start with a specific workspace

workbench --workspace /path/to/workspace

Add a workspace

workbench add /path/to/workspace
workbench add /path/to/workspace --name "My Workspace"

List workspaces

workbench list

License

MIT