Tour

Coodoo's screen looks like a development environment such as IntelliJ: a bar at the top, narrow strips with buttons along the sides, and tabs in the middle. Below we go through all of it.

The bar at the top

From left to right:

Part	What it does
Project menu (your repository's name)	Switch between your 3 Recent projects and All projects, Open project from GitHub…, Close project and Remove from Coodoo…
Branch	The branch your project folder is on right now, with ↑ (not pushed yet) and ↓ (still to pull)
Start app	Starts your app; see Starting your app
Usage	How much of your Claude and Codex subscriptions you've used; see Usage and limits
Status	What the autopilot is doing, for example Autopilot · Review, and how many goals are waiting
Play, pause and stop buttons	Control the autopilot; see Autopilot
Question mark	This documentation (also with F1)
Person icon	Accounts: sign in to Claude, Codex and GitHub
Gear	Settings; see App settings

The strips with buttons

On the left, the right and the bottom left are buttons that open a window. Some open a panel on the side, others a full page as a tab in the middle.

Button	Opens	What you'll find there
Project	panel	Your project's files. Click a file to read it (read only: the agents do the writing)
Goals	panel	The queue and the history (you make new goals in the chat); see Goals
GitHub	page	History, merging, branches and settings; see GitHub
Release	page	Releasing a version; see Release
Changelog	page	What is new for your users per version, per language; see Changelog
Project map	page	A map of your code and the team's lessons; see Project map
Statistics	page	Time, tokens and costs; see Statistics
Documentation	page	This guide
Run	bottom panel	The agents' live log
App	bottom panel	Start and stop your app, with what it shows
Changes	bottom panel	Files that have changed but aren't committed yet
Chat	panel	Ask questions about your project; see Chat
Team	panel	Agents, roles and usage; see The team
Autopilot settings	panel	Phases, autonomy and versions; see Autopilot settings
MCP	panel	Extra tools for the agents; see Plugins and MCP
Plugins	panel	Skills per agent; see Plugins and MCP
Requirements	panel	Node.js, Python and Java; see Requirements
Project vault	panel	Encrypted keys; see Project vault

While the autopilot is working, Goals, Run and Team get a little dot.

Moving buttons

Would a window be handier on the other side? Drag the button to the left, right or bottom. Or right-click the button and choose Move to…. With Restore default layout you put everything back. Coodoo remembers your layout and the width of the windows.

The middle: tabs

The Autopilot tab is the dashboard and is always there. Pages (GitHub, Release, Project map, Statistics, Documentation), files and diffs open as extra tabs. Close a tab with the little cross or with a click of the mouse wheel.

The dashboard

• At the top: the goal Coodoo is working on, with the progress (3 of 5 tasks · 60%) and the phases.
• Tasks: the goal's tasks and their status (Planned, Being built, In review, Being fixed, Done, Failed).
• Recent activity: the most important messages.
• Team: a card per agent showing what it's doing.
• Up next: the next goals in line.
• Your app's security and Security: see Security.
• Components: your project's version numbers.
• Shared knowledge: shortcuts to the team's research, design, tech, plan and notes.

If there's nothing in the queue yet, the dashboard shows the steps to get started.

The status bar at the bottom

Here you see the phase and the task (task 2/5), whether there are open Dependabot alerts, whether there are updates, and Coodoo's version. Click the version for About Coodoo and updates.

Multiple projects

Each window has one project. If you open a second project in a new window, both autopilots can work at the same time. On the Mac, the agents keep working when you close the window.

Keys

Key	Does
F1	Open the documentation
Enter	Send (chat, names and keys)
Shift + Enter	New line in the chat
Escape	Close a window or menu
Alt + ↑ / ↓	Move a goal or task in the queue