Is DevThrottle an AI agent?

No. DevThrottle does not write code and is not an agent - it is the control room for the agents you already run. It lines up Claude Code, Codex, and your other tools on one board so you can see what each is doing at a glance and answer them by voice. You bring the agents and their subscriptions, and running them through DevThrottle costs nothing.

The app is free forever, and your code never leaves your computer. We host nothing of yours, so it costs us nothing when you use it. The only thing for sale is prepaid credits, which pay for hosted AI features like transcription at a published rate card. The free version is not a trial and never expires.

Which coding agents does it work with?

It works with the AI coding agents you already use - Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini, and others - across different tools at the same time. You keep your existing agent and subscription; DevThrottle runs and watches them all on one board.

Docs/CLI/Overview

CLI

The cc-* CLI tools

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DevThrottle ships a small set of command-line tools onto your PATH - the cc-* tools. They exist for your agents as much as for you: an agent that needs to produce a PDF report or a Word document can call a tool that is guaranteed present, instead of improvising a different approach on every machine.

What installs by default

The installer's default tool set is deliberately small - three document converters, covered in the tool reference:

cc-pdf - Markdown to PDF
cc-html - Markdown to HTML
cc-word - Markdown to Word (.docx)

Alongside them, the installer manages the apps themselves: the Director, the Gateway, and the Launcher tray app.

Managed, not dumped

Tools are installed and updated by DevThrottle's own setup engine - versioned, hash-checked, and repairable. The Director's status rail shows the health of the bundled tools, and a broken tool install is something the app can fix, not a support ticket.

The wider toolbox

The default set is the floor, not the ceiling. The open source repository contains a larger collection of cc-* tools that DevThrottle can manage; the set that ships by default will grow deliberately - tools earn their place. Everything is MIT-licensed and readable in the repository.

Quick check that tools are on PATH

cc-pdf --help

Note

The tools are plain executables on PATH - nothing about them requires DevThrottle to be running, an account, or credits. They work in any terminal and from any agent.