Voss
ADE

Agentic workspace for
coding agents.

Voss gives coding agents a local workspace: live runs, scoped tools, approvals, review surfaces, and replayable history built for software work instead of chat drift.

Voss tools output listing read-only and mutating harness tools.

Live workspace preview

Local agent work you can watch and steer.

The desktop path is moving from a terminal grid toward a live review cockpit: start a native run, inspect the work as it happens, approve risky actions, and reconnect to recent local sessions while verification continues.

Structured run view

Native Voss runs can show task progress, tool activity, model output, and final results as readable rows instead of terminal noise.

Inline approvals

Permission decisions can appear where the work is happening, with the same pending item also visible in the attention queue.

Reconnect to recent work

The cockpit can list recent local work and open a live pane back onto a run when the local workspace is available.

Honest run states

Starting, ended, failed, and disconnected states are shown directly. The UI does not pretend a run is live when it is not.

Why ADE

Agents need an environment, not another text box.

Stateful workspaces

Keep sessions, project memory, phase context, and validation artifacts tied to the repo where the work happens.

Inspectable execution

Review tool calls, traces, diffs, confidence gates, budget records, and generated artifacts before they become opaque history.

Governed capabilities

Expose tools through explicit modes, MCP surfaces, permission gates, and mutation boundaries instead of all-or-nothing automation.

Stack

The Voss ADE stack.

Voss spans the CLI, TUI, desktop shell, MCP bridge, and code intelligence surfaces users operate locally.

CLI

Scriptable one-shot and repo commands.

TUI

Interactive turns, modals, and traces.

Desktop Preview

Live local workspace for supervised runs.

MCP Server

Expose Voss tools to agent clients.

Code Intelligence

Repo-aware context and navigation.

Voss Tools

Diff, inspect, lint, and budget helpers.

Planning + Validation

Phase plans, checks, and summaries.

Orchestration panels

Watch a team work, without the spam.

The ADE centers the orchestration surfaces: roster, board, session tree, reviewer verdicts, and the audit. Panels stay quiet by default and reveal detail on demand.

Team roster

Declared roles, scope, budget, and model tier.

Board

Cards moving across columns with WIP limits.

Session tree

Per-agent budget, scope, and status, live.

Reviewer verdicts

Reviewer-A and Reviewer-B output, side by side.

Budget meter

Allocation and consumption per root, card, and agent.

Audit view

The run as a navigable, replayable trail.

Workflow

Plan, run, inspect, ship.

Plan

Start with bounded intent, phase context, and read-only analysis before edits.

Run

Execute tool calls through declared modes and workspace-scoped capabilities.

Inspect

Open traces, budget records, probable decisions, and Voss diffs while the work is fresh.

Ship

Close the loop with validation checks, summaries, and PR-ready artifacts.

Desktop builds

Use the CLI today. Desktop preview is in verification.

The stable setup path is still the Voss CLI. The desktop workspace is active in local preview while the live run path, approval loop, and packaging experience are verified.

CLI

Install with npm or pip and run Voss inside an existing repo.

npm i -g @vosslang/cli

Desktop workspace

Local preview for live work, approvals, inspection, and reconnecting to recent sessions.

In verification

Run Voss from source while desktop packaging and preview verification continue.

View setup docs