Ctrl — Pixel Office for AI Coding Agents

Watch your AI coding agents work in a live pixel art office, right inside VS Code.

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Features

Real-Time Agent Tracking

See your AI agents appear as animated pixel characters the moment they start working. Each agent walks to a desk, sits down, and shows live tool activity — file edits, API calls, terminal commands — as floating indicators above their head.

Supported agents:

• Claude Code — Anthropic's CLI agent
• Codex CLI — OpenAI's CLI agent
• Augment Code — Augment's coding agent

Multi-Agent Office

Run multiple agents simultaneously and watch them all work in the same office. Parent agents and their subagents are displayed together, so you can see your entire team at a glance. Click any agent to focus on them, or right-click for quick actions.

Session Inspector

Click any agent to see their full conversation in real-time — messages, tool calls, code output, and cost tracking. Watch the AI think and work, step by step.

Multi-Daemon Support

Connect to multiple daemons running on different machines or projects. Use the /observe route to monitor all your agents in a single unified view — local and remote.

56 Color Themes

Personalize your office with 56 built-in color themes. Switch between warm, cool, vibrant, and muted palettes from settings.

Layout Editor

Customize your office floor plan with the built-in layout editor. Choose from 4 presets — Default, Startup, Agency, and Enterprise — or drag furniture to create your own arrangement.

Web Dashboard & Sharing

Share your office with anyone using the companion web app at ctrl.bulletproof.sh. Spectators can watch your agents work in real-time from any browser — no VS Code required. Generate a QR code or share link directly from settings.

Foosball

When agents finish their work, they might challenge each other to a game of foosball. A pixel art mini-game that plays out automatically in the office.

Sound Notifications

Get audio alerts when agents complete tasks or need attention. Toggle sounds on/off in settings.

Persistent Sessions (tmux)

Enable tmux mode to keep agents running across terminal restarts. Ctrl automatically detects and adopts already-running agent sessions.

Getting Started

1. Install the extension
2. Open any project where you use AI coding agents
3. The Ctrl panel appears automatically in your bottom panel
4. Start an agent — it appears in the office immediately

Run Ctrl: Show Panel from the command palette if the panel isn't visible.

Commands

How It Works

Ctrl watches JSONL session transcripts from your AI coding agents in real-time. When an agent starts, it appears in the office. As the agent uses tools (reading files, writing code, running commands), those actions appear as animated indicators. When the agent finishes, it leaves the office.

No configuration needed — Ctrl auto-detects agent sessions in your workspace.

Requirements

• VS Code 1.107.0 or later
• At least one supported AI coding agent (Claude Code, Codex CLI, or Augment Code)

Web App & Daemon

The standalone web app at ctrl.bulletproof.sh connects to a local daemon for browser-based monitoring.

npx @bulletproof-sh/ctrl-daemon@latest

Start the daemon, then open the web app. The daemon watches your local agent sessions and streams them to the browser via WebSocket.

Links

• Website
• Web App
• GitHub
• Issues

License

BUSL-1.1