CLI dispatchTarantula

concept

Open phone controlDrop work on a desktop windowRun CLI tasks locallyReport back when the work lands
Surfacephone + desktop
WorkCLI-native
Statusconcept

CLI dispatch

Your midnight crew for command-line work.

Tarantula is a concept for controlling CLI work from your phone: dispatch agents to terminal, Cursor, and script windows, then let the desktop side run the work.

Product story

Tarantula

Your midnight crew. Agents that operate your CLI while you sleep — controlled from your phone.

Most automation thinks "agentic" stops at the chat window. Tarantula doesn't.

Tarantula is the first desktop app that brings true automation and dispatch to the tools you actually run things on — your terminal, your Cursor, your scripts. The desktop side runs the agents. The phone side gives you a tactile control surface for them: drop a tarantula icon on a window, give it a task, watch it scuttle off and do the work.

The conceit is simple. Most of the work that's hardest to coordinate is the work that lives in CLIs — and most CLIs were never designed to be coordinated remotely, in parallel, with a phone in your pocket. Tarantula is what that coordination layer looks like when it's done right.

It runs on your machine. The agents you spin up are yours. The work they do never leaves your environment.

This is a 2025 release. We'll let you know when it's open.

— Happy building.

The dispatch pattern

Command-line automation needs a control surface.

Tarantula is the first desktop app that brings true automation and dispatch to your CLI tools — Cursor, terminals, scripts — controlled from your phone by adding little tarantulas on the screen.

01

Phone-side dispatch

Drop a tarantula on the screen of your phone. It crawls into the corresponding window on your Mac, runs the work, reports back. Coordinate from anywhere.

02

CLI-native

Cursor, terminals, dev scripts — anything with a command interface. Tarantula doesn't replace them; it commands them at scale.

03

Midnight crew

Queue ten things at midnight, wake up to ten finished things. The agents work through the dark hours. You don't.

Workflow rhythm

How the tool wants to be used.

Keep this page honest: Tarantula is upcoming. The factual promise is dispatch, CLI control, and local machine ownership.

01Open phone control
02Drop work on a desktop window
03Run CLI tasks locally
04Report back when the work lands

Factual boundary

No inflated feature fog.

Keep this page honest: Tarantula is upcoming. The factual promise is dispatch, CLI control, and local machine ownership.

Surfacephone + desktop
WorkCLI-native
Statusconcept

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