LeulAria/volt

An open-source workspace for working with coding agents.
Chats, code, Git, a browser and a terminal in one window, on top of the real VS Code core.
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Agents do the typing. You keep the judgment. Volt is a workspace for working with coding agents instead of next to them: the chat, the code, Git, a browser and a terminal share one window, so nothing you need is a tab away.
It is built on the real VS Code core, not a lookalike, so your extensions, themes, keybindings, language servers and debuggers come along. What Volt adds is the layer that makes agents a first-class part of the editor: a runtime that talks to any model or agent CLI, a permission system you control, and review tools that let you keep or undo exactly what an agent changed.
> Public beta. Volt is below 1.0 and moves fast, so expect rough edges and changes between releases. The changelog lists what changed in each one.
## Download
Get the latest build from GitHub Releases.
| Platform | File |
| macOS, Apple silicon | volt-stable- -darwin-arm64.dmg |
| macOS, Intel | volt-stable- -darwin-x64.dmg |
| Windows | volt-stable- -win32- -user-setup.exe |
| Linux | volt-stable- -linux- as .deb, .rpm or .tar.gz |
The builds are not code-signed yet, because Volt is an independent project without a signing certificate. Your system warns you the first time you open one. That is expected:
macOS: open System Settings > Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway, or install from the Terminal and skip the dialogs. The macOS install guide walks through it with a screenshot for every step, and shows how to use Volt from the command line (volt .).
Windows: when SmartScreen says Windows protected your PC, click More info, then Run anyway.
Linux: sudo apt install ./volt-stable- -linux-x64.deb, or sudo dnf install ./volt-stable- -linux-x64.rpm.
There is also a Beta and a Nightly channel, each its own app that installs next to Volt (see Releasing Volt). macOS is the platform Volt is developed and tested on; Windows and Linux builds come from the same pipeline but have had little testing. Everything about installing is in docs/install.
## Why Volt
| Principle | What it means |
| Bring your own agent | Volt doesn't sell tokens. Use the Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, Grok, Antigravity or Kimi sign-in you already have, or point Volt at an API (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter) or a local model (Ollama, LM Studio). You keep your plan and your keys. |
| You set the leash | Four access presets, from Supervised to Full access, decide what an agent may read, edit, run, fetch or connect to. Risky commands are flagged before they run, and a hard-deny list for destructive commands and secret files holds even under Full access. |
| Review before it lands | Every agent edit is pending until you keep or undo it, hunk by hunk. Each turn is checkpointed in Git, so you can preview, restore or redo any point in a conversation without touching your own index. |
| One window, no tab sprawl | An in-app browser the agent can drive and you can annotate, a real editor, Git and a terminal sit beside the conversation. Switch between the Agent and IDE layouts with one command. |