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Everything Assist does, one by one.

Every feature in Drift Assist. Each entry says what it does and where to find it. Install steps, configuration and the security posture are in README.md and SECURITY.md.

01 / 2 features

Agents working together

Agents messaging agents

Agents running in Assist can work as a team. Through the assist CLI, one agent can list the other sessions, read another agent's pane, and send it a message or a task. assist send adds a line asking the receiving agent to report back to the sender's pane when it is done or stuck, so the answer arrives as a message instead of the sender checking. assist wait waits for a pane to settle and says whether it is idle, asking a question or still working.

Where assist ls, assist view, assist send, assist wait.

The `assist` CLI

Every session control from a shell: list, view, send, wait, launch and kill sessions, and set Auto-Yes. assist launch --role starts a session from your roster of agent commands.

Where assist help.

02 / 7 features

Watch your sessions

Live terminal panes

Each tmux pane streams to the browser as it changes, colours included. If the WebSocket drops, the view falls back to polling until it reconnects.

Where the main view.

Split view

Two panes side by side. The selected side is outlined and takes everything you type. Each side's tab has a menu for choosing its pane. On a phone, one pane shows at a time and the A/B tabs switch between them.

Where Actions → Split view.

Session tabs

One tab per pane, with a running dot and idle time. Long-press a tab to pin, reorder, rename, duplicate, fit or kill it. Idle tabs tuck into a zZ sheet, and the tab list shows every tab at once.

Where the tab strip under the top bar.

Fit and text size

Fit resizes the tmux window to your screen. Smaller and Larger change the text size.

Where Actions → Fit, Smaller, Larger.

Search and line selection

Search the transcript of the current pane. Long-press a line to select it, drag to extend, and copy the lines as plain text.

Where Actions → Search; long-press in the terminal.

Full-screen apps

Panes running a full-screen app have no browser scrollback, so ▲, ▼ and End page through the app's transcript instead.

Where the pane header, shown only for those panes.

OpenCode output reader

Read an OpenCode conversation beside its terminal. It only reads; it never types into the pane.

Where Output, in the header of an OpenCode pane.

03 / 4 features

Answer prompts

One-tap answers

Permission prompts and numbered menus become buttons above the composer.

Where above the composer, when a prompt is on screen.

Auto-Yes

Answers permission prompts for a session after a countdown you can STOP. It is off until you turn it on, and the delay is 0.1 to 30 seconds. A codex pane is never answered while a model-downgrade menu is showing.

Where Actions → Auto-Yes, or assist autoyes.

All-sessions switch

Arms Auto-Yes for every agent pane — claude, codex, opencode, cursor and gemini — including sessions started later. Plain shells stay manual, and any session can opt out.

Where Settings → Auto-Yes → All Sessions, or assist autoyes --global.

Prompt popups

A popup tells you when a pane you are not looking at asks a question, with a button to open it. For a sudo password prompt, Send types the vault's $sudo secret. Popups can hide themselves after a set time.

Where they appear on their own; timing is in Settings → UI & Behavior.

04 / 8 features

Type into a pane

Composer

A multi-line box that types into the selected pane. Unsent text is saved per pane on the server, so the phone and the desktop show the same draft. ↵ switches Enter between sending and starting a new line.

Where the box under the terminal.

Prompt segments

Give a favorite a handle, then type [handle] to insert its text when you send. History keeps the short form.

Where Hist → Favs, then type the handle in the composer.

Secret vault

Secrets are kept in this browser only. [$handle] in a message sends one: the value is typed into the pane and never saved to history or drafts. 🔑 sends a stored secret in one tap.

Where Settings → Secret vault; 🔑 beside the composer.

History and favorites

Every prompt and command you send is kept, each in its own list. Star one to keep it as a favorite and send it again with a tap.

Where Hist → Prompts, Favs, Cmds.

File upload

Attach files or photos from the phone. They are saved on the host and sent as @path references, so the agent can open them.

Where File.

Keys

Esc, Tab, arrows, Ctrl-C and the other keys a phone keyboard lacks. Any key builds a Ctrl/Alt/Shift combination and sends it in one tap.

Where Keys.

Autocomplete

Type @ for a file path or / for a skill, and pick from the list.

Where the composer.

Skills panel

Lists the current project's skills so you can insert one.

Where Actions → /Skills.

05 / 6 features

Projects and your machine

Project launcher

Open a new session in any project folder, with an optional command to run first. Recent projects are listed, and Browse opens a folder picker.

Where Actions → Projects.

Git panel

Git status and push for the pane's project. Commit & push shows the branch, upstream and number of changed files, and asks you to confirm before it runs.

Where Actions → Git.

Project venv

A new pane can enter the project's Python virtual environment before anything runs. It is off by default, and it only uses a venv that git does not track.

Where Settings → Server Controls → Auto-Activate venv.

Idle-session cleanup

Lists sessions with no new output for a set time. With --yes it kills them, checking each one again first; --keep spares the ones you name.

Where assist purge --idle 24h.

Software updates

Checks the configured upstream and installs an update. Restarting is a separate step.

Where Actions → Software updates, or assist update.

Settings

Server, terminal, Auto-Yes, popup and Studio settings, edited in the browser.

Where Actions → Settings.

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Studio

Connect to Studio

Connect to a Studio to answer its questions from your phone, see an attention badge, and see the project and effort for the active session. The token stays on the server.

Where ◇ Studio.

07 / 4 features

Access

Phone pairing

assist pair prints the phone's URL and a QR code, and opens a short window where the phone can join without typing the secret.

Where assist pair.

LAN access

assist expose adds a listener on your LAN address. Assist never listens on all addresses or a public one.

Where assist expose.

Background service

Runs Assist as a systemd user service (Linux) or a launchd agent (macOS). Your tmux sessions keep running when Assist restarts or stops.

Where assist service install.