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title: "Pod: the agent-fleet IDE for macOS"
description: "Pod is our free, MIT-licensed IDE for running a fleet of coding agents on one Mac: a native terminal, claude-acc built in and no telemetry."
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# Pod: the agent-fleet IDE for macOS

> Pod is our free, MIT-licensed IDE for running a fleet of coding agents on one Mac: a native terminal, claude-acc built in and no telemetry.

The agent-fleet IDE for macOS. A native terminal and claude-acc built in, for running many coding agents on one Mac with no telemetry. Free and MIT, built on Orca, in pre-release.

Website: https://pod.codes

Pod is our own product: an IDE for macOS that runs many coding agents side by side on one Mac. It is free and MIT-licensed, and it is in pre-release: the source is public, and the installers are on their way.

- **What:** an IDE for a fleet of coding agents, with a native terminal and claude-acc built in.
- **Licence:** free and MIT. The source is public: [outof-place/pod](https://github.com/outof-place/pod) on GitHub.
- **Status:** pre-release. The Homebrew cask and the notarized DMG are coming.

## Context

We run many coding agents at once on our own Macs, and a fleet works a machine hard: terminals flood, subscriptions run dry, dev servers eat memory and builds pile up. We built claude-acc for that load. In Pod it is part of the IDE, next to a native terminal.

## What is in it

- **A native terminal:** every pane is a native view that runs Ghostty's engine and draws with Metal, not a web page.
- **claude-acc built in:** subscription rotation, a memory guard for dev servers, builds scheduled by free memory, cleanup, stay-awake and fan control.
- **No telemetry:** Pod sends nothing home. The telemetry, relay, push, share and feedback services it inherits from Orca are switched off.

Coming after the first release: indexed code search for agents, OrbStack VM environments and the Pod Workspace, a managed home for your repositories.

## Built on Orca

Pod is a downstream distribution of [Orca](https://github.com/stablyai/orca) by Stably AI, an open-source IDE for coding agents under the MIT licence. Orca brings the IDE itself, per-worktree setup through `orca.yaml` included. Pod adds the macOS-native parts and claude-acc, and anything generic goes back to Orca as a pull request. Pod is not affiliated with or endorsed by Stably AI.

## Technology

| Tool | What it does in Pod |
| :--- | :--- |
| Electron, TypeScript, React | The app and its interface, as in Orca |
| Ghostty, Metal | The native terminal: Ghostty's engine, drawn with Metal |
| Swift | Native macOS helpers |
| Python | claude-acc |

## Where it is now

Pod is not released yet. Coming with the first release: a Homebrew cask and a notarized DMG with automatic updates.

- [Pod](https://pod.codes): The agent-fleet IDE for macOS.