KOTNODE
A VS Code fork built by a designer: own palettes, own typography, own chrome. The AI chat lives in the window, not in a plugin — and it talks to Claude, GPT, Grok or OpenRouter on the key you paste. You pay the provider directly for tokens — no subscription, nothing resold.
Three windows, three agents, one task list
Paste a key from Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI or OpenRouter and talk to the model right inside the editor: streamed answers, history that survives a reload, model switched by one click in the header.
The side panel holds the one task in progress and the questions waiting for you. An answer is a click, not a paragraph typed at 1 a.m.
Own palettes, a separate font for each area of the chrome, no default-blue anywhere. It was built because looking at stock VS Code hurt.
What you get
And what is not there yet
macOS on Apple Silicon only. No Windows or Linux build, and none is promised.
The build is signed by us, not yet by Apple — the first launch goes through right-click → Open.
The chat talks; it does not edit your files or run your terminal. Agent actions still come from the Claude Code extension, which keeps working as before.
Sales are not open yet. Today you are joining the list — the people on it get the first letter.
Leave your e-mail — you get the first letter when sales open
Built by one person, in the open
No team, no funding, no roadmap slide. If something in it is wrong, one button sends me the report and I answer myself.