# Install ghostex with Homebrew Cask

Workspace for running and reviewing multiple CLI coding agents. Version 10.45.0 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install cask:ghostex
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew Cask (100%):

```sh
brew install --cask ghostex
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew cask metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** cask:ghostex
- **Package manager:** Homebrew Cask
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/ghostex>
- **Version:** 10.45.0
- **Source summary:** Workspace for running and reviewing multiple CLI coding agents
- **Homepage:** <https://ghostex.dev/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://ghostex.dev/>
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex/releases/download/v10.45.0/ghostex-10.45.0-arm64.dmg>
- **Generated:** 2026-11-04T12:20:42+00:00

## Executables

- ghostex (binary)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-11-04
- Package-manager version: 10.45.0
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex
- info: No package-manager update timestamp was available.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## From the blog

- [When terminals become control surfaces](https://pkg.so/blog/2026-10-25/agent-terminals-become-control-surfaces/)
## Project history and usage

Ghostex is an open-source, cross-platform workspace for running, monitoring, reviewing, and remotely controlling multiple CLI coding-agent sessions.

### Project history

Ghostex was created as an open-source native workspace for running and reviewing multiple coding-agent CLIs. Rather than implementing its own coding model, it combines persistent terminals, graphical chat views, an embedded browser and editor, project organization, and remote-control clients.

The project evolved rapidly into a cross-platform client/server architecture. Official 2026 releases added standardized per-platform data locations, expanded Linux and Windows packaging, mobile control, remote machines, cross-agent orchestration, and a Beads-backed project board.

### Adoption history

Ghostex developed from a native macOS-oriented agent manager into a workspace with macOS, Linux, Windows/WSL2, Android, and iOS clients. Its agent-neutral design supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Cursor, and other terminal-based coding agents.

### How it is used

Developers open projects and run several agent CLIs side by side, inspect diffs or web output in embedded panes, send follow-up prompts, manage worktrees and task boards, resume persistent sessions, and monitor or steer work from another computer or mobile device.

### Why package nerds care

Ghostex reflects the emergence of orchestration layers above command-line coding agents. Package-minded developers care about its native Rust and GPUI shell, persistent Ghostty-based terminals, command-line control surface, remote daemon, worktree support, and ability to mix agent implementations without moving projects between separate applications.

### Timeline

- 2020s: Ghostex began as a native desktop manager for persistent coding-agent sessions.
- 2026: The project expanded packaging and runtime support across macOS, Linux, Windows/WSL2, and mobile clients.
- 2026: Version 7.1 moved settings, application data, caches, logs, and runtime files to standard operating-system locations.
- 2026: Later releases expanded onboarding, remote workflows, project boards, embedded documentation, and cross-agent orchestration.

### Related projects

- Ghostex integrates with agent CLIs including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini CLI, Cursor Agent, and Copilot CLI.
- Its interface and runtime build on Ghostty, Zed's GPUI, Chromium Embedded Framework, VS Code or code-server, Beads, and mobile terminal components.

### Sources

- <https://ghostex.dev/>
- <https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex>
- <https://github.com/maddada/Ghostex/releases>


## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for ghostex. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew cask API
- **Tap:** homebrew/cask
- **Full Token:** ghostex
- **Names:** Ghostex
- **Depends On:** Arch: {'type': 'arm', 'bits': 64}, Macos: >=: 13
- **Artifacts:** App: 1, Binary: 1, Target: 2, Uninstall: 1, Zap: 1
- **Auto Updates:** yes
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no


## Related links

- [Homebrew Cask packages](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-packages/) - Generated from Homebrew Cask package-manager metadata.
- [Homebrew Cask applications](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-applications/) - Cask artifact metadata includes an app bundle.
- [Homebrew Cask binaries](https://pkg.so/homebrew-cask-binaries/) - Cask artifact metadata includes a binary.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/ghostex.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/ghostex.yml)


## Sources

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- curated package history
- package version freshness
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