Is Navide only for Claude Code? I use Codex for some things and Aider for others. And is there a way to get a plain shell alongside them?
Supported CLIs. The built-in registry covers 13 coding CLIs: Aider, Antigravity CLI, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI, Cursor CLI, Grok CLI, Kilo Code, Kimi Code, Muse Code, OpenCode, Pi and Qwen Code — plus plain terminal sessions. (The CLI extension guide additionally lists droid among the agent keys.) Gemini CLI was removed in July 2026 because the product was discontinued; it will not be re-added. Each CLI’s behaviour and billing stay under that vendor’s control; Navide only drives the process.
Opening a pane manually — this is what to use for exploration, maintenance, or any task that does not need a full pipeline:
- Choose an agent and a role.
- Review the launch command Navide shows before spawning.
- Pick a plain Terminal pane when no agent is needed. Terminal panes have no messaging handle, so agents cannot address them.
- Minimize a pane to keep its PTY alive without it occupying the layout.
- Rebuild or resume a pane only after Navide has detected a reusable session ID (see the “detecting session” topic).
Every new CLI pane is titled <agent key>-<n> — claude-1, codex-2 — and that title is also its messaging address.
Managing the CLIs themselves is in Settings → CLI Agents: version, install method, duplicate installs, last self-update result, and buttons that run the CLI’s own update and diagnostic commands. The same tab has Push channels (per-CLI delivery switches) and, under Resume on Open, whether Navide restores one CLI, the first Grid page or the active tab on launch.
One vendor-specific note: Kimi Code panes get a 100 ms escape-sequence reassembly window so arrow keys stay reliable in the embedded terminal; an existing PI_TUI_ESC_TIMEOUT value takes precedence.
Source: README.md, docs/en-US/user-guide.md, docs/en-US/cli-extension-guide.md, docs/en-US/inter-cli-messaging.md