Mandeck Docs

Mandeck is a native Mac terminal that runs coding agents in panes and lets one agent hand work to others. These pages are the human half; every one of them also serves its markdown twin, because half the readers here are agents.

Start here

Install it, open your first deck, and point it at the agent CLIs you already pay for.

Install

One universal DMG, signed and notarized. What macOS checks on first launch, which permissions Mandeck asks for, and how to put the CLI on your PATH.

Your first deck

Open an agent pane, split it, put the next repo in its own workspace — the dozen keys that carry the whole app.

Agents & subscriptions

The 25 coding-agent CLIs Mandeck can launch, how it reads each one's sign-in without asking you for anything, and how a second plan works.

Drive the deck

One local HTTP API, three clients. This is the half an agent reads.

Deck API

The local HTTP API a running Mandeck serves on 127.0.0.1:7717, and the three clients that speak it.

Routes

Every Deck API route — what it takes, what it does, and which ones need the bearer token.

CLI

mandeck — the same Deck API from any shell or script. Every command, how ids work, and the exit codes an orchestrator branches on.

MCP server

A zero-dependency stdio MCP server exposing every Deck API operation as a tool, with the annotations a client's approval policy keys on.

Jobs & hand-offs

You spawned it, you own it — the follow-up contract, and the only signals that finish a job.

Security model

Loopback plus a token file — possession of the Mac is the auth. What that buys, and what it deliberately does not.

Reference

The keymap and the settings panes, read out of the app's own source.