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Poolside Assistant
Poolside Assistant is a coding-agent workspace for running, supervising, and switching between multiple agents across repositories.
Poolside Assistant provides a macOS workspace for coding agents, with extensions for VS Code and Visual Studio. It connects to Poolside’s pool agent through ACP and can also work with compatible agents such as Claude Code and Codex.
Developers can run parallel sessions, isolate tasks with Git worktrees, inspect terminals, files, diffs, and GitHub status, import existing sessions, use built-in connectors, and run supported models locally through MLX. Official pricing was not published on the pages reviewed; external agent subscriptions or inference endpoints may cost extra.
Features
- Run multiple coding-agent sessions in parallel
- Connect agents through the Agent Client Protocol
- Isolate tasks with Git worktrees and branches
- Arrange conversations, terminals, files, diffs, and GitHub views
- Import Claude Code and Codex sessions
- Use connectors for GitHub, Linear, Notion, Sentry, Vercel, and more
- Run supported local models offline through MLX
- Use Poolside's pool agent from the terminal
Use cases
- Run agents on separate repositories at the same time
- Hand a coding task from one agent to another
- Review generated changes beside terminals and Git diffs
- Explore a repository in chat mode before creating a branch
- Run local coding models without sending code to a cloud service
Pros
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Capabilities
- Chat about your code — “Chat mode gives a conversation a scratch directory of its own, with space to ask questions, explore ideas, and do research before any of it deserves a branch.” source
- Agent that edits files — “reading through a repository, working in the terminal, changing files, running the tests, fixing what it broke” source
- Runs commands — “You can also install pool to work from the terminal or connect Poolside agents to Zed and JetBrains through ACP.” source
- Reviews pull requests — “Ask Claude Code to review what pool built.” source
- VS Code — “Poolside Assistant is available today for macOS, VS Code, and Visual Studio.” source
- JetBrains IDEs — “You can also install pool to work from the terminal or connect Poolside agents to Zed and JetBrains through ACP.” source
- Command line — “For the past year, our team has done its daily work inside tools we built for ourselves: pool , our agent harness and CLI, and the interfaces around it for running agents wherever we happen to be working.” source
- Choice of models — “You can bring your existing Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini subscription, point pool at an OpenAI-compatible inference endpoint, or run an open-weight model locally on your Mac.” source
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Pricing
- Prices checked
- 2026-10-27