Async

About Async

An open-source, agent-first desktop workspace — Agent, Editor, Git, Terminal, all in one place. Own your AI workflow: local-first, BYOK, and fully hackable.

Async IDE is an AI-native desktop shell built from scratch on Electron + React + Monaco. It is not a VS Code fork — the entire codebase is intentionally lean, fully transparent, and hackable.

The central idea is simple: the agent is the center of gravity, not a chat panel bolted onto the side of an editor. Everything — workspace access, tool execution, diff review, terminal operations — revolves around a transparent Think → Plan → Execute → Observe loop that you can see, steer, and interrupt at any time.

From the project's README

Async is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 475 stars on GitHub. It was last updated in May 2026.