Documentation
How to use Recoder — install the desktop app, connect the coding agents you already run, and coordinate them: run in parallel, review, converge, and land one governed merge. Local-first; your agents, your keys.
What is Recoder?
Recoder is a self-hosted convergence layer for AI coding agents: run your own agents in parallel, converge the best of each, and land one governed merge.
Install
Download and install the signed, notarized Recoder desktop app for macOS, verify the download, and see what the app starts on your machine.
Quickstart: your first parallel run
Run two agents on the same task, compare them, converge, and land one governed merge — end to end, in about ten minutes.
Connect your coding agents
Recoder drives the agent CLIs you already have — Claude Code, Codex, opencode, Cursor, Gemini CLI and more. How detection and auth work.
Review, converge & merge
Recoder's headline flow: take N parallel agent runs and turn them into one reviewed, governed commit with signed evidence.
Governance & approvals
Recoder governs what agents can do below the model: a fail-closed policy gate, human approvals, a tamper-evident audit trail, and compliance evidence export.
Bring your own keys (BYOK)
Point Recoder at the provider keys your agents already use. Recoder orchestrates and governs; it never proxies, intercepts, or resells inference tokens.
Troubleshooting
Recoder degrades truthfully — when something is missing it tells you. Common not-connected / not-available states and their fixes.