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Press kit

Everything you need to write about Watchfire, in one page. Drop the boilerplate into your article, download the logos, and check the facts.

Taglines.

Three lengths. Pick the one that fits the slot you have.

  • Micro

    “Better context. Better code.”

    For a tweet, a chip, or a headline.

  • Short

    “Better context. Better code. Watchfire turns clear specs into scoped tasks, then lets Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, opencode, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, or Cursor Agent build them in sandboxed git worktrees.”

    For a deck slide or a meta description.

  • Long

    “Watchfire turns clear specs into scoped tasks, then hands each one to an agent in its own git worktree and sandbox. Better context in, better code out — with clean transcripts and full control at every step.”

    For an article intro or a release-notes paragraph.

Boilerplate.

Drop this into the bottom of your article.

Watchfire is an open-source remote control for AI coding agents. It turns clear specs into scoped YAML tasks, then runs each one in a sandboxed git worktree with a coding agent of your choice — Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, opencode, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, or Cursor Agent. Watchfire ships as a daemon, a CLI/TUI, and a desktop GUI, running on macOS, Linux, and Windows. It is free and open source under Apache-2.0; users pay their own model API costs.

~70 words — present tense, factual.

Logos & banners.

The flame on dark and light surfaces, plus banners and the default social card. Cross-reference the brand page for usage guidelines — don’t recolor the flame.

There is no separate wordmark file — the Watchfire wordmark is set in Syne and is rendered in context on /brand.

  • Flame logo — full bleed preview

    Flame logo — full bleed

    SVG

    Vector source, scales to any size.

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  • Favicon preview

    Favicon

    SVG

    Compact mark — square crop.

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  • Banner — dark preview

    Banner — dark

    PNG

    Wide banner for dark layouts.

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  • Banner — light preview

    Banner — light

    PNG

    Wide banner for light layouts.

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  • Banner — app preview

    Banner — app

    PNG

    Square / app-store-style banner.

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  • Social card (OG image) preview

    Social card (OG image)

    PNG

    Default Open Graph card, 1200×630.

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Screenshots.

Watchfire.app surfaces, ready to drop into an article. Direct downloads — no bundling required.

Screenshots may be cropped and compressed for use in articles.

  • Multi-project dashboard with live task counts.

    Watchfire.app — dashboard

    Multi-project dashboard with live task counts.

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  • A project's task list with the live agent terminal alongside.

    Watchfire.app — project tasks

    A project's task list with the live agent terminal alongside.

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  • Editing a task's prompt and acceptance criteria.

    Watchfire.app — task editor

    Editing a task's prompt and acceptance criteria.

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  • Streaming the live terminal output from a running agent.

    Watchfire.app — live logs

    Streaming the live terminal output from a running agent.

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  • An active chat session with a coding agent.

    Watchfire.app — chat

    An active chat session with a coding agent.

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  • The full task list with status, age, and last run.

    Watchfire.app — task list

    The full task list with status, age, and last run.

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  • Editing the project definition — the prompt the agent reads first.

    Watchfire.app — project definition

    Editing the project definition — the prompt the agent reads first.

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  • Project-level settings: default agent, auto-merge, sandbox.

    Watchfire.app — project settings

    Project-level settings: default agent, auto-merge, sandbox.

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  • Daemon-wide settings shared across all projects.

    Watchfire.app — global settings

    Daemon-wide settings shared across all projects.

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  • Per-task git worktrees, each on its own watchfire/NNNN branch.

    Watchfire.app — branches

    Per-task git worktrees, each on its own watchfire/NNNN branch.

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  • Per-project secrets passed into the sandbox at run time.

    Watchfire.app — secrets

    Per-project secrets passed into the sandbox at run time.

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  • Recoverable trash for tasks the operator soft-deletes.

    Watchfire.app — trash

    Recoverable trash for tasks the operator soft-deletes.

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Facts at a glance.

Numbers you can quote without fact-checking us.

Founded
2025
First public commit late 2025.
License
Apache-2.0
Free and open source. Users pay their own model API costs.
Current version
v9.0.0
See the changelog for the full release history.
Pricing
Free
No paid tier. Users pay their own model API.
Supported agents
6 backends
Claude Code, Codex, opencode, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, Cursor Agent.
Platform
macOS, Linux, Windows
Daemon, CLI/TUI, and GUI on all three. Sandboxing uses Seatbelt on macOS and Landlock or Bubblewrap on Linux; Windows currently runs unsandboxed.
Source
GitHub
https://github.com/watchfire-io/watchfire

Press contact.

Working on a piece? Reach out — we’ll fact-check it and turn around quotes in 24h when we can.

info@watchfire.ioGitHub Discussions

Founders & maintainers.

Watchfire is a small open-source project. One maintainer today, plus contributors on GitHub. Full story on the about page.

  • Nuno Coração

    Creator and maintainer

    Nuno started Watchfire because he wanted to run coding agents without babysitting a terminal. He writes most of the daemon, the CLI/TUI, the GUI, and — in a properly recursive way — uses Watchfire to build Watchfire.

    GitHub

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