Cafe is a code editor that kept going. Servers, containers, databases, APIs, notes, spreadsheets, documents, PDFs and images open as tabs beside your code, and Claude can see and help in every one of them.
15,206tests across 571 test binaries, run before changes land
100+MCP tools so Claude Code can drive every part of Cafe
10 msto run a Bases query over 10,000 notes
4background agents at once by default, each in its own git worktree (up to 32)
Claude, everywhere
Press CtrlAltL in any tab.
Whatever you're looking at goes to Claude as a chip you can remove. It runs on your Claude subscription through Claude Code, or an API key from your keyring. Every change Claude makes arrives as a preview and undoes in one step.
terminal · cargo test · exit 101
why is this failing?
The tax test expects 31.40 but rounding gives 31.39.Round once, after summing the lines. Show the fix?
Ask about anything on screen
Editor, terminal, git, containers, database results, logs, PDFs, sheets, documents, images and notes all hand their content over.
~/orders ❯rust files changed this week, bigger than 10 KBfd -e rs --changed-within 1w --size +10kInserted at the prompt. Cafe never runs it for you.
English at the prompt
CtrlK at the prompt turns a sentence into a command. Failed commands and tasks get Explain failure.
orders.rs +12−3 · tests.rs +28
Round order tax once after summing linesWritten in this repo's style. PR title and description go through gh.
Git that writes itself up
Commit messages, pull requests, AI review with Apply fix, and Explain commit or blame line.
Next-edit prediction
Tab, Tab. Plus Fix and Explain on diagnostics, Generate Tests and Write Docs.
Data that explains itself
SQL from English, Explain result and Fix query. Container troubleshooting and Compose files from a description.
Office with tracked changes
Proofread, rewrite or translate as tracked changes. Formulas from English, chat with a PDF, alt text for images.
Agents in the background
Four Claude Code agents at once by default, each on its own branch. Watch the transcript, then merge, open a PR or discard.
Notes
Open your Obsidian vault. Keep every file as it was.
Any folder is a vault. Cafe reads your .obsidian/ settings, writes plain Markdown, and you can switch back to Obsidian at any time.
Links that hold together. Wikilinks, backlinks, tags, properties, callouts and embeds. Renaming a note updates every link to it.
Graph, Canvas and Bases. Bases tables run their full expression language and stay editable.
Search by meaning. A small embedding model runs on your machine to find related notes, and Ask your vault answers with [[links]] to the notes it used.
Synced with git. Commit, pull and push in the background when you turn it on. Never a force push.
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Everything in the box
One install replaces a shelf of apps.
Each of these opens as a tab, splits beside your code, and can move to its own window. Cafe doesn't do everything each app on the shelf does; it does the parts you use every day.
Code
Multi-cursor editing that stays quick in a 5 MB file
Language servers installed for you, with rename and workspace symbols
tree-sitter highlighting and Vim mode
A debugger with breakpoints and Explain this stop
Git staging, blame, diffs and conflicts. Tasks.
Servers and data
SFTP and remote editing over plain SSH
Docker as a live graph: stats, logs, actions and Compose
A Postgres client with results and Explain plans
A log viewer with plain-English filters
A terminal with shell integration for bash, zsh and fish
API client
One request per .req file. A folder is a collection.
Scripts on QuickJS with Postman's pm.* API
WebSocket, SSE and gRPC alongside REST and every auth
Postman and OpenAPI import, a mock server and a CLI for CI
Secrets in the OS keyring. Environments follow your branch.
Notes
Opens your Obsidian vault and keeps its files as they are
Live preview, Source and Reading modes
Daily notes, templates, graph, Canvas and Bases
Typeset maths and Mermaid diagrams
An audio recorder and git sync
Office files
Sheets with formulas, PivotTables, charts and page layout
Documents with tracked changes, comments, tables and charts
PDF: organise, comment, fill forms, redact, sign, OCR and compare
An image editor with layers, selections, painting, filters and type
Platform
Windows that remember: drag a tab out, and every window comes back on restart
Web apps as Services tabs, drawn by an embedded Chromium
WASM extensions that ask for each permission
Claude Code settings: subagents, skills, hooks and MCP servers
Cafe is built in Rust on gpui, the GPU-accelerated UI framework from Zed. Parsing, indexing and graph layout run off the UI thread, so typing doesn't wait.
You decide what leaves your machine.
Secret files are refused outright
Database and SSH passwords, API secrets and tokens are masked
AI stays off for remote hosts until you allow each one
Turn AI off for any project
The usage log keeps costs, never prompt text
Extend it with WebAssembly.
Add commands, panels, languages, editor actions, note renderers and Bases functions, with the Rust SDK. Install from a git URL pinned by hash, and grant network, process or AI access one at a time.
Cafe Cloud
One account for you and your team.
Accounts with an email code, GitHub or Google. Invite your team, set roles, and see who changed what. Cafe Cloud includes the online suite, starting with Sorted: team projects and chat, where every item is a conversation.
