Timon

At a glance

Timon is an open-source desktop app and background service that turns the agent CLIs you already sign in to, such as Claude Code, Codex or Copilot, into a coordinated team. An orchestrator splits a job into tasks, a coder works in its own git worktree, a reviewer checks the diff with a different model, and a merger runs the tests and lands the branch. Try it if you already pay for one of those subscriptions and want reviewed, parallel work on your own machine.

Good fit

Developers who already use a coding agent CLI and want it to carry multi-step jobs: planning, coding in isolated worktrees, cross-model review, then merging. It also suits unattended work, since routines, cron and webhook triggers can run overnight series paced to subscription quotas, and work moves to another backend when one subscription runs dry.

Consider something else when

Skip it if you have no signed-in agent CLI, since Timon runs its agents through one of claude, codex, copilot, grok, opencode, pi or hermes-acp. Skip it for now if you need a team setup with a known price: multi-user accounts and support are Pro features, and Pro pricing has not been announced.

Start here

Sign in to a supported agent CLI, then install Timon from the latest GitHub release; the installer brings its own Node.js and installs Git on Windows if missing. Run timon doctor to check the service, backends and paths, and timon backends to confirm your CLI was found. Then open the app and give the orchestrator a small, well-scoped task. On a headless server, run timon service install --dry-run first to see what it will install.

Cost and requirements

Free covers one user on one machine with agents, Kanban, routines, the code-review-merge pipeline and the built-in browser, but no support. Pro (multi-user roles, premium plugins, white label, support) and Cloud (self-hosted for a team) are unpriced until launch, and plans may change. You still pay for your own CLI subscriptions. Packaged builds cover Windows 10+ x64, macOS 11+ on Apple silicon and Linux x64 with glibc 2.28+; other machines need the from-source route (Node.js 22+, Git, a signed-in claude or codex CLI), which runs the daemon and web app without the desktop app. Code is AGPL-3.0 with a plugin exception; the SDK is MIT.

Limits to know

The project is young: one tagged release (0.1.7), 162 commits and seven contributors as of November 2026. The daemon runs as a background service, so agents keep working after you close the app; agents ask before pushing, publishing or deleting. All state, including agents, missions, users and secrets, lives under ~/.timon, and resetting means deleting that folder with no undo.

Still unclear

• Which agent actions beyond pushing, publishing and deleting require your approval, and can you tighten that list?
• Does the from-source daemon run on Intel Macs or ARM Linux, which the packaged builds do not cover?