CollinsA vibecoded agentic developement environment to manage, orchestrate and compliment all your Claude Code CLI sessions

An opinionated, Claude-first workspace ​

Call it an Agent-First IDE, an AI-Native Workspace, or an Agent Orchestrator — Collins is an opinionated take on what a desktop workspace built around a coding agent should look like: the agent front and center, with your sessions organized around it. It is native — GTK4, libadwaita, and VTE, not a webview — and it is also, deliberately, a tool for Claude: there are no plans to support other agents. And to be upfront about it: Collins is itself entirely vibecoded — the code is written by Claude Code. GPL-3.0, open source.

Why "Collins"? ​

My wife keeps referring to Claude as Collins by mistake. So now when she asks me if I'm talking to Collins, I can say yes.

Collins is a fork of agent-session-manager by Máté Molnár — see the original project's website. All credit for the original app goes there; this fork is GPL-3.0 like the original.

Install ​

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:episode6/stable
sudo apt install collins

pipx install --system-site-packages collins
collins --install-desktop   # optional: add it to the app grid

# from the GitHub releases page
sudo apt install ./collins_*_all.deb

git clone https://github.com/episode6/collins.git
cd collins
python3 -m collins

The PPA is the channel that updates itself, on Ubuntu 24.04+ and its derivatives (Mint, Pop!_OS, elementary, Zorin); the .deb covers Debian and the rest of its family; and PyPI is the way in everywhere else — it works anywhere the system GTK libraries are installed (--system-site-packages is required — Collins gets GTK from your distro, not from PyPI). See Getting Started for system requirements and the details of each channel. The installed command is collins.