Sidelight

Terminal tool · 2026

Sidelight sits beside an AI coding session and makes the project easier to follow. Browse files, inspect Git changes, search the code, and see session information without opening another editor.

Sidelight running beside an AI coding agent in a terminal split view

The project pane is deliberately read-only. Optional integrations with Pi, Claude Code, and Codex record limited session metadata, so you can see what is happening without collecting conversation content.

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Source and installation instructions · npm package

Sidelight: the visibility layer my terminal was missing