pxi

Install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snehal96/pxi/master/macos/get.sh | bash

Installs the latest pxi.app into /Applications and opens it (Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 13+). Run it again to update.

Why pxi

Agents write code faster than anyone can read it. pxi is built for the reading:

• Every worktree in one window. What each agent changed, which files more than one of them touches (overlaps), and a walkthrough of each change before you open a file.
• Review checkpoint. Mark "now"; every file an agent adds, edits or deletes after that gets a dot, committed or not.
• Claude inside. Claude Code sessions in an editor tab, with your own login and any of your Claude accounts. Its edits show as diffs to accept or reject.
• Review → agent. Quote lines from any file or diff into that worktree's Claude with your comment (⌥K).
• Fast and small. A Swift window around one Go binary. No Electron. Opens huge repositories instantly and never uses more memory than px0, the engine it is built on (checked on every commit).

Features

Area	What you get
Worktrees	All worktrees of a repo with their changes and overlaps; hide or delete stale ones; new worktree with Claude started on a task; Ship asks its Claude to commit, push and open a PR
Review	Split and unified diffs, hunk staging, viewed files, review checkpoint, AI walkthrough of a change, pull requests from GitHub, GitLab, Gitea/Forgejo and Bitbucket
Claude	Sessions per repo and worktree (⌘Esc), Threads with headless Claude on your subscription, one menu entry per logged-in Claude account, notifications and Dock badge when a session needs you
Source Control	History, branches, stashes, remotes, tags, commit, push and pull
Navigation	Quick Open with recent files first (⌘P), workspace search (⌘⇧F), symbols, language servers on demand, .env and local config files findable
Terminal & processes	Shells in the repo or any worktree (`⌃``); what each session started, with ports, CPU, memory and Stop
Remote (SSH)	Browse and read files on another machine over your SSH keys, read-only; saved and reconnected automatically
Look	VS Code-style layout, themes, follows macOS light/dark, explorer indent guides, HTML and Markdown preview

The full list, with shortcuts: docs/pxi.

Other ways to install

Zip: download pxi-mac.zip from Releases, unzip, move pxi.app to Applications, then right-click it and choose Open the first time (the app is not notarized yet).

From source: builds with Go, Bun and the Xcode command line tools, installing any that are missing.

bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snehal96/pxi/master/macos/install.sh)"

Command line / browser (macOS, Linux):

make build && install pxi ~/.local/bin/
pxi                                    # the workbench in your browser
pxi ~/code/project                     # one folder
pxi https://github.com/owner/repo/pull/123

Open folders with File → Open Folder… (⌘O), by dropping one on the Dock icon, or open -a pxi ~/code/project. Settings live in ~/.pxi/settings.json.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. pxi runs the claude command you already use, signed in with your own Claude subscription. If you have several Claude accounts, each logged-in one shows up as a choice.

Does pxi send my code anywhere? Not by itself. Its server listens on 127.0.0.1 only, telemetry is off in pxi's builds, and the one outside request it makes at start is for the code font (Google Fonts). Code leaves your Mac only through things you start: Claude when you message it, your git host when you push or open a pull request, and the SSH host you connect to in Remote.

Why does macOS say it can't verify the developer? The app is signed but not yet notarized by Apple. Installing with the curl command usually avoids the prompt; with the zip, right-click pxi.app and choose Open the first time.

Does it work without Claude? Yes. Worktrees, diffs, the review checkpoint, Source Control, search, the terminal and Remote all work on their own. Claude sessions, Threads and Ship need claude installed; Threads can also use Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent and others.

How is it different from VS Code or Cursor? They are editors that also show diffs. pxi starts from reviewing: every worktree's changes and their overlaps in one view, a checkpoint for what changed since you last looked, and review comments that go straight back to the agent that wrote the code. It is also much lighter: one Go binary in a Swift window, no Electron.

Security

pxi listens on 127.0.0.1 only, refuses requests addressed to another host name (DNS rebinding) and writes from other websites, never follows a symlink out of the folder you opened, and never sends saved tokens back to the page. Details: MAINTAINING.md.

Contributing

pxi is a soft fork of px0 that merges upstream weekly. Read MAINTAINING.md and CLAUDE.md before changing code.

Acknowledgements

pxi is built on px0 by Arpit Bhayani, used under the MIT License; see LICENSE. px0's own documentation, which still describes the engine underneath, is in docs/.