Orchard

Orchard is a separate macOS app that lives in the same repository and is built on Damson’s terminal engine. Where Damson is the terminal, Orchard is a cockpit for running multiple CLI coding agents in parallel.

What it does

Orchard takes a queue of tasks and runs agents against them concurrently:

• For each task it creates a git worktree off a pinned base commit, so every agent works in isolation without stepping on the others.
• It spawns an agent in that worktree and dispatches new work as agents go idle (default concurrency: three at a time).
• Each agent appears as a terminal tab or grid pane in a workspace UI, so you can watch them all at once or focus one.

Pluggable agent engines

Agents are pluggable. Out of the box Orchard ships:

• Claude Code — a first-class engine that resolves the claude binary, clears the “trust this folder” startup prompt automatically, and fingerprints the TUI’s working vs. idle states so the orchestrator knows when an agent is free for the next task.
• Shell Command — a generic engine to run any command-line tool as an agent.

The workspace UI

• A sidebar with your workspace tree
• Tabs and a grid of live agent sessions
• Menu actions: New Workspace (⌘N), New Session as Tab (⌘T), New Session Beside / grid (⌘D), Add Mission (⌘⇧T)

orchard-cli

Like Damson, Orchard ships a companion CLI — orchard-cli — to drive a running instance from scripts or from an outer layer of AI orchestration.

How it relates to Damson

Damson’s own audience includes “people running CLI AI coding agents” across several panes. Orchard is the dedicated tool for exactly that: it reuses Damson’s GPU renderer (so fast agent output stays smooth) and its rock-solid panes, then adds task queuing, git-worktree isolation, and agent lifecycle management on top.