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Alera is a native workbench for CLI coding agents. You run Claude Code, Codex, Amp, Antigravity, OpenCode, Cursor, Copilot, Pi, Grok Build, fx, or any other terminal agent in a real PTY, each in its own Git worktree when the project is Git-backed.

It is not another AI IDE and it does not wrap a single chat backend. The desktop app is Flutter. The runtime host that owns your terminals is Rust. There is no Electron and no bundled Chromium.

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First session

Install Alera for your platform, then open the app.
Register a project: an existing local folder, or a Git clone from a URL.
For Git-backed projects, create a linked worktree workspace for the task you want to run. Non-Git folders get a single primary workspace.
Open a terminal tab and launch an agent CLI the same way you would in any shell.

That is the whole loop. Everything else in these docs is how to keep several of those loops running at once without colliding.

What to read next

Projects And Workspaces

How Alera models a folder, a working context, and a Git worktree.

CLI Agents

First-class integrations, plus the rule that any CLI still runs.

Alera.toml

Copy ignored files and run setup when a new worktree appears.

Orchestration

Coordinate several agents in one workspace with a durable run.

What these docs cover

These pages are for people using Alera: install, the workbench, agents, and the companion app. They describe behavior that ships today.

Contributor internals (architecture, CI, design-system rules, release signing) stay in the GitHub repository, not here.