Collins

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Every session, organized

A sidebar of all your agent sessions, grouped by project, with a pinned Favorites section, auto-generated titles, live updates, and search.

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Embedded terminals

Click a session to resume it in a real VTE terminal tab — in the directory it last worked in, inside your own shell — plus a secondary shell panel per tab (Ctrl+J).

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Copy & paste that just works

Plain Ctrl+C copies whenever text is selected (and interrupts otherwise); Ctrl+V pastes; right-click for a menu. No Ctrl+Shift gymnastics.

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Name & tag freely

Give sessions custom names and tabs emoji prefixes. Everything is stored app-side; your agents' own data is never touched.

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Stays out of your way

Waiting badges, guide lines, and desktop notifications tell you when a background session needs you, so you can work across many at once.

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Know your limits

A Claude usage panel under the session list shows your subscription limits with reset countdowns — read from the claude CLI's own login.

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Native GTK4

Built with GTK4, libadwaita, and VTE. Installs as a .deb or runs from source. GPL-3.0, open source.

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 also, deliberately, a tool for Claude — there are no plans to support other agents.

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

Debian / Ubuntu (.deb)From source

bash

# built with ./scripts/build_deb.sh, or from a GitHub release
sudo apt install ./collins_*_all.deb

bash

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

See Getting Started for system requirements and from-source instructions. The installed command is collins.

CollinsA native home for your AI coding-agent sessions