What is Nest by RAVEN?

Think of it as a terminal multiplexer — but built specifically for AI agents. Instead of juggling tabs and windows, you get a flexible grid workspace where every cell is an independent AI session, plus the integrations a developer actually needs: GitHub, GitLab, Teams, CI runs, and live terminal sharing.

What's new in v0.7.0

• Actions panel — CI runs without leaving Nest. Every repo in My Repos and Teams has an inline accordion with the last 5 GitHub Actions / GitLab CI runs (status, workflow, branch, commit, author, duration). Click any run to open it. Polling adapts: 30s while a run is in progress, 2 min when stable.
• Sidebar Actions bar — when a repo is linked to your active tab, the latest run for the current branch is visible at a glance.
• GitLab integration — full read access for repos, issues and Actions. Connect from Settings → Account, or sign in with GitLab right from the login screen. Auto-linked when you sign in via GitLab.
• Multi-provider repo browser — connect both GitHub and GitLab and your repos appear grouped per provider. Single-provider users see no extra chrome.
• User menu with plan & avatar — bottom of the sidebar shows your provider avatar with a colored dot for your plan (gray Free, blue Pro, gold Team, pulsing yellow on trial). Click for email, plan, trial countdown and sign out.
• Ctrl+Tab fix on Windows — Windows used to swallow Ctrl+Tab; now intercepted from the main process so both Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab cycle tabs everywhere.

Previous release notes for v0.6.x and earlier are in the GitHub Releases page.

What's coming next

A short look at what's on the bench. Nothing is shipped yet — these are the next two horizons.

• v1.0 — Worktrees + Spotlight. Native git worktree management inside Nest, with two modes per cell: a fully self-contained worktree (own deps, own dev server) or Spotlight, a live mirror of the active worktree to the repo root. A built-in benchmark dashboard compares RAM, CPU and disk so you can pick what fits your workflow.
• v1.1+ — Multi-agent co-edit. A pub/sub layer (Supabase Realtime first, MQTT optional) on top of CRDTs (Yjs) so humans and AI agents can edit the same files in real time — Google-Docs style, multiplayer for code with agents in the channel, not just people.

Download

Latest: v0.7.0.

Nest auto-updates in the background — install once and you'll get future releases without re-downloading.

Installing on macOS

Nest by RAVEN is not yet notarized by Apple, so macOS Gatekeeper will block it on first open. Two short commands fix that.

1. Download the DMG and remove the quarantine flag before opening it:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/Nest-0.7.0-arm64.dmg

2. Open the DMG, drag Nest.app to /Applications, then clear the flag on the installed app:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Nest.app

That's it — Nest will launch normally from now on.

Installing on Linux

Two formats, pick whichever fits your distro.

AppImage (universal, recommended)

Works on Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, openSUSE, Mint, Pop!_OS and most others. No system-wide install.

chmod +x ~/Downloads/Nest-0.7.0.AppImage
~/Downloads/Nest-0.7.0.AppImage

To integrate it into your apps menu, use AppImageLauncher or move it to ~/Applications/.

.deb (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!_OS)

Installs system-wide, registers the desktop entry and the nest:// deep link handler.

sudo apt install ~/Downloads/nest_0.7.0_amd64.deb

Required packages (auto-installed by apt): libgtk-3-0, libnotify4, libnss3, libxss1, libxtst6, libatspi2.0-0, libdrm2, libgbm1, libxcb-dri3-0, xdg-utils.

Highlights

Multi-AI grid

Run any combination of AI CLIs side by side in a resizable grid, up to 4×4. Each pane is its own process with an isolated HOME, so multiple accounts of the same AI never conflict.

Broadcast mode — type once, send to every pane at the same time.

GitHub & GitLab integration

Connect via OAuth and operate from inside Nest:

• Browse, clone or link repos from your account
• View, create, review and merge Pull Requests (with the merge method configured per repo)
• AI Code Review — sends the PR diff to Claude and shows a structured review
• Issues — browse, comment, open/close, create a branch from any issue and jump straight into a terminal positioned in the repo
• GitHub notifications bell with unread count
• GitLab read access for repos, issues and pipelines

Actions panel (v0.7)

CI runs from GitHub Actions and GitLab CI inline in My Repos, Teams and the sidebar. No more cmd+tab to a browser to check if a build is green.

Teams — real-time collaboration

A full team workspace: Activity feed of GitHub events, Team Chat with emoji reactions and presence, shared repos / snippets / MCP configs, multi-leader roles and an auto-generated daily standup you can paste into Slack or Discord.

My Repos (Pro)

The same workspace but for solo devs — Activity, PRs, Issues, Standup and one-click terminals positioned inside any repo.

Terminal Sharing

Share a live pane with anyone via an 8-character code. They open Nest, paste the code and see your terminal in real time. With interactive mode the guest can type — but only after you approve the handshake. No SSH, no VPN, no port forwarding.

Voice input

Speak instead of typing. Powered by OpenAI Whisper running locally — audio never leaves your machine. Toggle with the mic button or press F5. Supports 8 languages.

One-time setup:

pip3 install openai-whisper
python3 -c "import whisper; whisper.load_model('base')"

MCP panel

Read and write ~/.claude/settings.json from a visual editor. Add, edit or remove MCP servers in seconds — shared across all your Claude accounts.

Global search

⌘⇧F / Ctrl+Shift+F searches terminal output across every open pane at once and shows result counts per pane.

Keyboard shortcuts

All rebindable in Settings → Keybinds.

Plans

Save ~15% with annual billing.

Feedback

• Open an Issue — bug reports, feature requests
• Discussions — ideas, questions, general feedback