I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI
A fast, native app for local coding agents. Amp, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Grok, and Pi — one timeline, entirely on your machine.
I built a native app for coding agents with Rust and GPUI launched on August 16, 2026 with 39 votes, #635 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
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Waku is a native desktop application built with Rust and GPUI that unifies multiple coding agents in a single interface. It manages sessions, transcripts, and tool activity from agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Grok in one timeline, running entirely locally on the user's machine. The app uses GPU-accelerated rendering for fast performance and enables users to checkpoint their working tree and roll back both code and conversations together.
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Waku drives the agent CLIs you already have — sessions, transcripts, tool activity, and checkpoints in one fast graphite window, entirely on your machine. Rust and GPUI — the GPU-accelerated framework behind Zed. Instant launch, smooth scrolling through years of transcript, no Electron. Each agent is connected over its strongest native interface — stream-json, JSON-RPC, live events — and normalized into one provider-neutral model. Every prompt checkpoints your working tree under a hidden git ref. Roll back the code and the provider conversation together, not just the chat log. ⌘N starts a session, ⏎ queues a follow-up while the agent works, ⌘⏎ steers it mid-turn, Escape stops. Every control…from waku.sh
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