What is Mastery HQ?
Mastery HQ is a Windows-native Agentic Operating System: a fast, draggable canvas where you launch, arrange, and supervise multiple coding agents at once - Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, Aider, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, and OpenRouter models - alongside the tools they need: terminals, a browser, a Sprint Board, music, and more. You direct the work by typing or speaking; the agents do it; the workspace keeps you in command.
Why an OS and not just an ADE
Section titled “Why an OS and not just an ADE”An agent development environment gives you somewhere to put agents. An Agentic OS gives them processes (named, long-lived agents with their own folder, model and memory), a shell (one command bar and your voice, driving all of it), metering and permissions (live spend, an audit log, and an approval gate before anything ships), and a desktop (browser, live TV, music, device previews, boards - windows on the same canvas). That is the difference between managing agents and running an operation.
What makes it different
Section titled “What makes it different”- Agents are windows. Each agent is a named, movable pane (“Alex · Claude Code”) with its own transcript, status glow, and persistent profile of what it has worked on.
- One command bar runs everything. Type or say “tell Alex to run the tests”, “open browser and go to github”, “tidy”, “loop: improve this copy until score 9” - routing, layout, and automation all speak plain language.
- Hermes orchestrates. The built-in orchestrator can dispatch tasks to agents, drive the workspace, and report back.
- Built-in quality loops. Loops re-run an agent against a judge until the output clears a score bar; the Model Council pits models against each other; the Benchmark Suite measures them.
- Streaming Mode. One click makes the whole app safe to show on stream - secrets masked, layout swapped, OBS/Streamlabs controlled from inside.
What it runs on
Section titled “What it runs on”Windows 10/11, as a native desktop app. Agent CLIs run locally with your own accounts and API keys - keys are stored on your machine and forwarded only to the agent CLIs, never to Mastery HQ servers.
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Frequently asked questions
Is Mastery HQ an IDE?
No - it's an Agentic OS. Instead of editing code yourself, you direct coding agents that do the work, and Mastery HQ gives them processes, a shell, a spend meter and a desktop, plus the oversight to run several at once. It covers what an agent development environment (ADE) does and keeps going: the browser, boards, previews and everything else the job needs live on the same canvas.
Which AI agents does it support?
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor Agent, Gemini CLI, Aider, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, any OpenRouter model over HTTP, and Hermes - Mastery HQ's built-in orchestrator that can drive the workspace itself.