Overview

How it works

A workspace is a project folder and what runs in it. Its tabs sit in the sidebar, in four sections:

1. Agents: Claude Code, Codex or your own coding agent, each in a tab of its own. See Agents.
2. Commands: dev servers and scripts, started and stopped with one key. See Commands.
3. Terminals: shells that open in the folder. See Terminals.
4. Browsers: websites beside your code, each with its own logins. See Browsers.

Over the tabs sit its loops: conversations in which Origami drives your own installed agent through one piece of work.

Around the tabs, each workspace has its git changes and history to review and commit, a kanban board, and the artifacts your agents hand back: plans, reports, diagrams and screenshots. Sidetrack keeps a second tab in view beside the one you work in.

Origami also runs an MCP server, so a connected agent can open tabs, run commands and read their output, write artifacts, move cards and reply to review comments, all where you can see it.

Good to know

• Origami is free for up to 5 workspaces with 10 tabs each. Origami+ removes both limits.
• When Origami opens again, every tab comes back stopped, except those set to start on launch.

Related

• InstallDownload Origami, open it, and point it at your first project folder.
• The windowThe rail, the sidebar, the stage and the titlebar, and what each one is for.
• WorkspacesA workspace is a project folder and everything that runs in it.