Hyperlane: A complete IDE that runs AI agents in parallel

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A complete editor first - language servers, extensions, terminals, source control - that also runs your agents side by side, each in its own Git worktree.

Runs the agents you already use

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Agents, inside the editor

Prompt, run, review, ship

Say what you want in the box every agent starts from. Drop in the issue you are fixing and a screenshot to work from, name the branch it should come off, and ask for a worktree of its own - one sentence, and an agent is running.

Start four agents on four tasks and let them work at once. Each gets its own Git worktree, so they never touch each other's files - and the sidebar holds every project, worktree and session in one list. Moving between them is a click, not a stash and a checkout.

Read what each agent actually did before it lands. Its branch opens as a pull request beside your code - the checks, the description, the diff, the thread - and the other three keep working while you do.

Merge the ones that are ready and leave the rest running. The graph shows what came off main, what has landed and what is still out - four branches you no longer have to hold in your head.

Editor foundation

A complete
IDE, first

Hyperlane is built on the VS Code engine, so it is a complete development environment before it is anything else. Disable every agent and it remains a full editor.

Language intelligence
Full LSP support. Go to definition, find all references, rename across the project, and diagnostics inline as you type.

Your extensions
Install from the marketplace. Themes, linters, language packs and formatters run unchanged.

Integrated terminals
Real shells, split and tiled beside the code, with tasks and build output where you left them.

Editing that keeps up
Multi-cursor, snippets, refactors, and the keyboard-first editing model you already have in your fingers.

Your settings, imported
settings.json, keybindings and themes carry over. Nothing to relearn on the first morning.

Beyond the standard editor

The foundation is a complete editor. These capabilities extend it for reviewing and shipping work produced in parallel.

Agent status. See which agents are working and which are waiting on you. You get pinged the moment one goes idle.

Split anything. Drop tabs into a group and they tile, so editors, terminals and browsers sit side by side instead of stacked.

Search. Full project indexing across files, symbols and text, with filters that survive a repo the size of yours.

Three-way conflict editor. Current, incoming and result side by side and synced line by line. Click the hunk you want instead of editing around a stack of markers.

HTTP client. Every route in the project, found and listed as you write them. Fire a request at one and read the response in the editor, instead of keeping a second app in sync with your code.

Design mode. Flip any preview into an inspector for the running app. Select an element, tweak its styles by hand, or describe the change and let an agent make the edit.

Formatting. A Prettier-powered formatter ships in the box. Format on save across JS, TS, CSS and JSON with zero setup.

Vite tests, natively. Vitest is wired in. Run a project's suite from the editor and read the failures where the code is, instead of in a terminal beside it.

Your VS Code setup carries over

Hyperlane is built on the VS Code engine, so your settings, keybindings, themes and extensions come with you.

Your keys stay yours

Agents run as their own CLI processes and handle their own credentials. We never proxy, store or transmit your API keys.

Native on every desktop

One installer per platform for macOS, Windows and Linux, with .deb and .rpm builds.

Bring any CLI-based agent, or anything that speaks ACP. More in the FAQ.

Questions

Still stuck? Get in touch.

Stop waiting on one agent

Free to download. Bring the agents and the keys you already have.

The Hyperlane editor with four agent terminals running beside the code