The Helm view
Every session as a card with its own prompt line, so you can drive ten of them from one screen.
Windows desktop app - free during beta
The command deck for your Claude Code sessions
One window for every session you have running. See which are working, which are waiting on you, and which are about to run out of context - and drive all of them from one screen.
Version 0.8.0-beta.1. Windows 10/11, x64. macOS and Linux are on the list. Requires Claude Code.
Twelve sessions, no idea which one needs you
You run Claude Code in a dozen terminals at once. Each one is a separate window with a title you cannot read, so finding the session that finished, or the one stuck on a permission prompt, means clicking through all of them.
Nothing tells you which session is near its context limit until it is already there. Nothing tells you that a turn ended five minutes ago. Nothing remembers which sessions you had open yesterday.
That is the whole problem. Ephorhelm is one window that answers it.
What you get instead
- One sidebar listing the sessions that are open, with state, branch, model and spend.
- A context gauge per session: green to 50 percent, amber to 80, red from 81.
- Permission requests collected in one place, answered without hunting.
- A Helm screen with a prompt line per session, so a round of ten takes a minute.
- Hand off and exit as one action, with the notes written before the session closes.
- The deck you had open yesterday, restored.
What is in it
Everything below is in the beta. Nothing here is a roadmap item dressed up as a feature.
Attention inbox with approve and deny
Permission requests collect at the top of the sidebar and you answer them without hunting for the terminal.
Context gauges and hand-off
A bar per session, green to 50 percent, amber to 80, red from 81. Hand off before the wall, not after.
Restore and resume
Reopen the deck you had yesterday, or pick a past session from a project and resume it.
Prompt library
Saved prompts per project and globally, with your hand-off prompt as the first entry.
Split panes
Two sessions side by side when you are comparing or copying between them.
Push-to-talk
Hold a chord, speak, release. The text lands in the prompt box without pressing Enter for you.
Deck brief
A read-only summary of what the whole deck has been doing, built from hand-offs and transcripts.
Review pane
See the diff for the files a session touched, without leaving the window or opening an editor.
Global search
One search across every open scrollback and your saved transcripts.
What it looks like
Screenshots from the beta on a 4K display, scaled down.
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Your sessions stay yours
Ephorhelm runs on your machine and talks to Claude Code on your machine. The only thing it ever sends us is a licence check-in every three days carrying four fields: the licence id, the app version, the Windows version, and a hash that identifies the machine. No prompts, no transcripts, no file paths, no project names.
Dictation is local too - Whisper on your CPU, no speech API.
Read the privacy pageFree during the beta
Create an account, download the installer, and activate the machine with a short code. No card, no invite.