Radial app

Agents & terminal

Radial's agent surface is the real thing: the actual Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor CLI running in a real terminal inside your project, with the live preview next to it. No wrapper chat, no separate model bill. The same agent you'd run yourself, with much better aim.

Agent terminals

⌘I opens the agent dock; ⌘T starts a new Claude Code agent in the open project (Codex, Cursor, and a plain shell are in the Agent menu). Each agent is a real PTY spawned in the repo's directory, so the CLI behaves exactly as it does in your own terminal.

• Run as many agents per project as you like, and rename them to keep parallel work straight. They name themselves from their current task by default.
• Sessions are persistent: agents keep running if you close Radial, and reattach with their scrollback when you come back.
• The dock sits on the right by default; Dock bottom in its header flips it. Terminal, Comments, and History share the dock as tabs.

The terminal is the chat

There is no separate chat box: you type to the agent in its own CLI (⌘L focuses it). Everything Radial hands over lands in the agent's input for you to review and press Enter, so nothing runs without your say:

• Elements: capture with the Select tool and the exact selector, text, and page arrive in the input. See Editing & canvas tools.
• Screenshots and images: ⌘⇧A captures the preview for the agent, pasting an image over the dock saves it and stages its path, and draw-tool annotations arrive the same way.
• Files: drop anything from disk onto the terminal and its path is typed in, ready to reference.

The quick-edit pill (Select tool) is the shortcut path: small asks go from click to running agent without opening the dock at all.

Bring your own login

Radial launches the CLIs you already have, under the account you're already signed into: an existing claude login, an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, or your Codex/Cursor auth. If a CLI is missing or signed out, Settings → Agent shows exactly what's needed with a one-click install or sign-in. For how this squares with each provider's terms, see AI accounts & terms.

Project rules

Put an AGENTS.md at the repo root and every agent reads it: brand voice, things never to touch, how to structure sections. Radial also briefs agents on its own conventions, like using the already-running dev server instead of starting their own, and (if .radial/figma.yml lists your design files) which Figma sources to pull from.