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Shikigami is a desktop IDE that runs multiple AI coding agents in parallel, each in an isolated Git worktree to avoid conflicts. It supports Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, features a full code editor, database browsing, Docker integration, and is free, local, and requires no account.

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20 $holidays = $this->dateNager->getHolidaysForCountry($countryCode, $year);

21 $dto = PublicHolidayCalendarDTO::createFromNager($countryCode, $countryName, $holidays);

22 $this->calendarRepository->upsertByCountryCode($dto, $year);

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README.md · @@ Holiday synchronization

18−Run bin/console app:holiday:sync.

18+Run bin/console app:holiday:sync --country=DE.

22−The command replaces the calendar.

22+The command upserts a country calendar safely.

26−Supported provider: local fixtures.

26+Supported provider: DateNager public holidays.

18Run bin/console app:holiday:sync.

22The command replaces the calendar.

26Supported provider: local fixtures.

18Run bin/console app:holiday:sync --country=DE.

22The command upserts a country calendar safely.

26Supported provider: DateNager public holidays.

Who’s out of office?

A small Symfony service for public-holiday calendars, leave requests, and reliable working-day calculations.

Holiday synchronization

Sync a country calendar from DateNager and upsert it without replacing local leave data.

☑ Fetch public holidays by country and year

☑ Map the provider response into calendar DTOs

☐ Schedule the production sync

bin/console app:holiday:sync --country=DE

Limit

WHERE

ORDER BY

shop ▸ shop ▸ users read-only

No rows match this WHERE filter.

shop ▸ shop read-only MySQL 8.4

SQL query

koneko@who-is-out-of-office:~/whos-ooo$ php bin/console app:holiday:sync --country=DE

Syncing public holidays for Germany (2026)…

✓ 12 holidays fetched from DateNager

✓ Calendar DE/2026 upserted successfully

koneko@who-is-out-of-office:~/whos-ooo$ ▌

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name

email

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Mina Weber

[email protected]

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Igor Nowak

[email protected]

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Ports

8080 → 80/tcp

No published ports

3306 → 3306/tcp

Environment

APP_ENV=production

DATABASE_URL=mysql://mysql:3306/shop

QUEUE_TRANSPORT=redis://cache:6379

Volumes

./:/srv/app:delegated

mysql-data:/var/lib/mysql

2026-07-13T06:38:10.102Z compose.who-is-out-of-office attached

web | 10.0.0.12 - GET /checkout 200 38ms

web | 10.0.0.12 - POST /api/orders 201 64ms

worker | Handling CheckoutCompleted #8842

worker | Message acknowledged in 23ms

mysql | ready for connections · port 3306

mysql | checkpoint complete · 18 buffers

@:/srv/app$ whoami

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New Agent

Start up to eight focused agents in this workspace.

Agent label

Engine & model

Reasoning effort

Low

Medium

High

Agent count

Working directory

Use workspace root

Use a Git worktree

Bring your agents

local

Claude

claude on your PATH

supported agent runtime

local

Codex

codex on your PATH

supported agent runtime

Requires Claude Code and/or Codex CLI installed locally.

Igor Single person · @koneko_lab

Meet the maker

One developer, everything in public.

“It got annoying, jumping between a stack of terminal sessions and a separate IDE. I wanted both worlds in one place, in a way that’s easy and reliable.”

Shikigami is built and released by me, on my own. It’s free, under active development, and currently in beta. Your feedback matters to me, and it shapes where the app goes next.

YouTube

GitHub

Discord

LinkedIn

The hard part

Three terminal tabs step on each other.

Spin up a few agents in a few tabs and they fight over the same working tree, clobber each other’s edits, and lose every bit of state the moment you quit. That’s the problem to solve, not another chat box.

Its own worktree, every time

Each agent gets a dedicated git worktree. No collisions, no clobbered edits.

Saved & resumable

Quit and reopen. Sessions reattach exactly where you left them.

One surface to watch them all

Projects as tabs, agents as panes, all of them at a glance.

The name

Why it’s called Shikigami.

A shikigami is a spirit from Japanese folklore, summoned to carry out tasks on someone’s behalf. That’s roughly the model here: you hand work to a set of agents and they go off and run it. The name fit, so it stuck.

What it does

It’s a real desktop app.

Agentic Coding mode runs the agents. A full editor lets you review their work. It’s a native desktop IDE, not a browser wrapper.

The agents

Parallel agents, no collisions

Run as many agents as you need. Each one works in its own git worktree, so they can all touch the same repo at once without overwriting each other.

Bring your own agent

Run each agent on Claude Code (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) or OpenAI Codex (GPT-5.6). Pick the model and reasoning effort per agent.

Terminal per agent

A real PTY behind every agent: a full shell, not a sandbox.

Resume anywhere

Quit and reopen. Every session reattaches where you left off.

Click a notification, land in the session

When an agent finishes its turn or needs your input, it sends a desktop notification. Click it and you go straight to that agent’s session.

A full IDE to review their work

A full editor built in

Switch to Editor mode for a Monaco code editor with your whole tree, split view, and a diff viewer. Review a diff, walk the git history and per-line blame across every repo in a monorepo, then commit (GPG-signed) without leaving the app.

Code intelligence, included

Go-to-definition, find-references, completion, and live diagnostics for PHP (8.1–8.5) and TypeScript/JavaScript — no language server to install.

Databases, in the app

Browse MySQL tables, run and save SQL queries, and inspect Redis keys — read-only, right beside the diff.

Docker in the dock

See your Compose stack, tail per-service logs, open a container shell, and start or stop services — all from inside the app.

Build in public

There’s a fifth agent. It streams.

Four agents run in the grid. The fifth is the stream where this whole app gets built, live and unedited, commit by commit, by the one developer writing it. Same repo, same branch, nothing cut.

⎿every commit, on stream

⎿every bug, kept in

⎿resumable · full archive on the channel

Subscribe · @koneko_lab

session · live-build ● streaming

⏸ ■ ▣

~/shikigami

⎇main

How it works

Start. Let it run. Review.

01

Start

Name a task and pick an agent — Claude or Codex. It spins up in a fresh, isolated git worktree of its own.

02

Let it run

It works alongside your other agents while you watch, or while you do something else.

03

Review

Read the diff in the editor, resume any session, merge what’s good, and dismiss the rest.

Good for

When one agent isn’t enough.

One agent per feature

One agent per branch, all building at once.

Hands-on coding too

Write the parts you care about in the editor while an agent handles the rest alongside you.

Long migrations

Kick one off, quit, resume it tomorrow.

Parallel bug triage

An agent per failing test, all running at once.

FAQ

Straight answers.

01

Is Shikigami free?

Yes. It’s free to use, no account required, no sign-up, and no cloud.

02

What platforms does it run on?

macOS (a signed .dmg for Apple Silicon and Intel) and Linux, as an AppImage.

03

Is it a cloud or web product?

No. It’s a desktop app that runs on your own machine. Agents and their git worktrees are all local.

04

Which AI agents does it run?

Claude Code (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and OpenAI Codex (GPT-5.6), via their local CLIs. Model and effort are chosen per agent.

05

How do agents avoid conflicts?

Each agent gets its own isolated git worktree, so they can all touch the same repository at once without overwriting each other.

Run your first agent.

Free. Solo mode. A signed desktop app. No account, no cloud.

Download for macOS

Apple Silicon M1–M4 · arm64

Intel x64

Linux · AppImage

signed .dmg · no sign-up