What it is
Control Center is a free and open-source (MIT) developer operations deck. You dispatch AI coding agents across isolated copy-on-write Git worktrees, review and merge their pull requests, and run the surrounding operation — tickets, pipelines, meetings, calendar, memory and a code graph — in one native app.
It is built for operators who run more than one agent at a time. One-off prompts are easy; the hard part is everything around them: knowing what each agent is doing, keeping its changes off your working tree, reviewing what it produced and turning that into merged work. Control Center is that layer.
How it is built
Every client — the desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux, the web app and the phone companion — is a thin renderer over one headless cc_server you run. The server owns the database, the external API calls and the execution; clients hold no business logic. Self-hosted first: your code, credentials and run logs stay on hardware you control.
Agents run inside OS-native sandboxes (macOS Seatbelt, Linux bubblewrap) with deny-by-default network egress for enclosed rigs, per-launch scoped credentials and a unified guardrail store with a per-space autonomy dial. Humans and agents are co-equal members of a workspace with roles, presence and live revocation.
Open source
The whole product — app, server, worker, clients and this site — is MIT-licensed and developed in the open at github.com/SamuelAlev/control-center. The changelog records what shipped and the comparison pages say plainly where Control Center pulls ahead of alternatives and where it does not.
The project is maintained by Samuel Alev and contributors.
Where to go next
- The landing page — the four pillars and downloads.
- The manual — tutorials, how-to guides, concepts and reference.
- Developers — the MCP server, CLI and this site's machine-readable surface.
- Contact — how to reach the maintainers.