Notes from the team building Alera, a native workbench for CLI coding agents.https://alera.build/https://alera.build/blog/run-cli-agents-in-parallel-with-git-worktrees/https://alera.build/blog/run-cli-agents-in-parallel-with-git-worktrees/Two agents sharing one working tree is a stash fight waiting to happen. Here is the model we use instead.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/why-alera-is-terminal-first-not-another-ai-ide/https://alera.build/blog/why-alera-is-terminal-first-not-another-ai-ide/The case for building around the CLIs you already use instead of wrapping one provider's chat in an Electron shell.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/how-alera-keeps-terminals-alive-after-you-quit/https://alera.build/blog/how-alera-keeps-terminals-alive-after-you-quit/Closing a window should never kill a three-hour agent run. The trick is who owns the PTY, and it is not the UI.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/inter-agent-orchestration-in-alera/https://alera.build/blog/inter-agent-orchestration-in-alera/Tabs full of agents are useful until they need to coordinate. How orchestration protocol v2 adds ownership, gates, and a real coordinator.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/track-coding-agent-quotas-without-leaving-the-workbench/https://alera.build/blog/track-coding-agent-quotas-without-leaving-the-workbench/Hitting a provider limit mid-run is the worst way to learn your quota. We put Claude, Codex, Kimi, Grok, Cursor, and more in the status bar.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/bring-your-own-cli-agent-to-alera/https://alera.build/blog/bring-your-own-cli-agent-to-alera/We did not want to invent another agent protocol. If it runs in a terminal, it runs in Alera - and the big ones get first-class treatment.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/see-which-agent-is-eating-your-cpu/https://alera.build/blog/see-which-agent-is-eating-your-cpu/Five agents in parallel and the fans spin up. The Resource Manager names the culprit per tab - including the time it blamed us, 26 times over.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/automate-new-worktree-setup-with-alera-toml/https://alera.build/blog/automate-new-worktree-setup-with-alera-toml/Every new worktree needs the same ritual: copy the .env, install dependencies, bootstrap. We made the repo describe it once.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/pull-requests-and-ci-checks-per-worktree/https://alera.build/blog/pull-requests-and-ci-checks-per-worktree/Review belongs next to the work. How the Pull Requests panel keeps GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps scoped to the worktree that produced the branch.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/why-terminal-output-performance-matters-for-agent-workbenches/https://alera.build/blog/why-terminal-output-performance-matters-for-agent-workbenches/A chatty agent can stream output for an hour straight. That is a frame budget problem, and on Linux it is worse than you think.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/pair-a-phone-to-your-alera-runtime/https://alera.build/blog/pair-a-phone-to-your-alera-runtime/The mobile companion is honest about what it is: a window into your runtime host, not a phone IDE. Here is what it does today.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/native-first-agent-workbench/https://alera.build/blog/native-first-agent-workbench/Why we bet on Flutter, Rust, and Ghostty instead of shipping another Electron shell around CLI agents.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://alera.build/blog/welcome-to-alera/https://alera.build/blog/welcome-to-alera/Why we started building a native workbench for CLI coding agents, and what you can do with it today.Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT