using-codegrid

A set of instructions for operating CodeGrid, a macOS workspace where several coding agents and terminal shells run in separate panels on one canvas. It explains how to open projects and inspect or control those panels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to list running agents, read their output, send them messages, open projects, and manage collaborative coding sessions in CodeGrid.
Why use it?
It helps coordinate work when multiple agents are running side by side, so the agent can discover what is active and exchange information with other panels.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ziplyne-agency/codegrid/using-codegrid
Any agent
npx skills add ZipLyne-Agency/CodeGrid --skill using-codegrid
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ZipLyne-Agency/CodeGrid

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 127 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,476 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00127 $0.02476
Opus 5 $0.00063 $0.01238
Sonnet 5 $0.00025 $0.00495
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00248

Measured 2d ago against content hash 920695012ef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-codegrid scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/using-codegrid/SKILL.md · 214 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Operating CodeGrid

CodeGrid is a native macOS workspace where several coding agents run side by side, each in its own pane on an infinite 2D canvas. It is local-first: no cloud, no account, no stored API keys. Agents are launched as normal CLIs (claude, codex, gemini, cursor-agent, grok, or a shell) — CodeGrid does not wrap or replace them, so they behave exactly as they do in a terminal.

This skill is your operating manual for driving CodeGrid — discovering what is running, reading and messaging other panes, and opening projects — both from inside a pane (via MCP tools) and from outside (via the local control socket or deep links).


1. Orientation: how to tell you're in CodeGrid

You are very likely running inside CodeGrid if any of these hold:

  • The MCP server codegrid-agent-bus is connected (run /mcp to check). Its tools — list_agents, read_pane, message_agent — are the primary way you interact with sibling agents.
  • The control socket exists: ~/.codegrid/socket (its path is also written to ~/.codegrid/socket-path).
  • You were started with a working directory chosen in CodeGrid's new-session dialog.

If the codegrid-agent-bus tools are not present but the user wants collaboration, tell them to enable it (onboarding → "Enable collaboration", or run node <app>/Contents/Resources/resources/agent-bus-mcp.cjs setup) and then open a fresh pane — tools load at pane start.


2. The mental model

Term Meaning
Canvas An infinite 2D surface holding panes. Each workspace has its own.
Pane / Session One running process (an agent or shell) with a working dir, git branch, live terminal, and a stable session_id. The pane is its window.
Agent The CLI inside a session: claude, codex, gemini, cursor, grok, or a shell.
Workspace A named project context — its own panes, layout, and (optionally) bound repo.
Agent Bus The local channel that lets one agent read/message another's pane.

Read the full file on GitHub · 214 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 214 lines · 127 tokens per session scan A 920695012ef9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-codegrid is a skill published in the GitHub repository ZipLyne-Agency/CodeGrid (23 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 127 tokens to every session and 2,476 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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