Engineering got wider. Your tools should keep up.
AI Bridge makes the everyday work of engineering faster: the database check, the pod that needs a restart, the request waiting in Slack, and the AI agents doing the rest. All of it in one Mac app, a few clicks apart.
Why I built it
Real engineering work is a stream of small checks between the big tasks. Is the pod healthy? Did the secret actually change? How many people signed up today? Can someone look at these logs? With AI, the field has widened: an engineer is expected to be across the code, the infrastructure, the data and the people asking about all three.
Each check is quick on its own, but across several clusters, typing context names and hunting for the right pod adds up. Asking an AI agent for a two-second answer means waiting for it to think. The tools that help, a Kubernetes viewer here, a database client there, each solve one slice in their own app.
And the terminal has not kept up. I live in iTerm and zsh, and I barely open an editor any more: I work with agents. But a terminal knows nothing about them. It cannot group the work, keep each job’s context files, run automations, show me which agent is waiting on me, or let me change one variable in a file without opening a whole IDE. — Stas
What AI Bridge does about it
Makes the ops work fast
- Every cluster, a click away. Browse workloads, read logs, check a Secret, restart a deployment, without typing a pod name. Every change names its cluster before it runs and is recorded after. Kubernetes in AI Bridge.
- Your databases beside it. Postgres and MongoDB, queried directly or asked in plain English, with nothing written until you say so. Databases in AI Bridge.
- Slack requests handled. An agent bound to a channel turns a quick “can you check…” into a job you approve, and its answer posts as you after you read it. Slack agents.
- As many windows as you need. A cluster in one, a database in another, the agents in a third: the parts of a Kubernetes viewer and a database client you reach for every day, in one app.
Gives your agents a better terminal
- Work grouped by the job. Workspaces hold each area of responsibility, with its own instructions, context files and repos, so every new agent starts knowing the job.
- The real CLIs, in real terminals. Claude Code, Codex, Grok and OpenCode on your own subscriptions, with one glance showing which is working and which is waiting on you. Running several agents at once.
- The rest of the day around them. Scheduled automations, a Grid of live sessions, sleep and wake with the conversation resumed, and files with side-by-side diffs for the quick edit that does not need an IDE.
Who makes it
AI Bridge is made by AI Bridge sh (ABN 15 662 475 381), an independent software business in Queensland, Australia. We are not affiliated with Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, the OpenCode project or any other maker of the agents the app runs; we are their customers, and we run their CLIs all day while we build.
AI Bridge is paid software with a free plan: Free has no limit on agents, and Pro and Team subscriptions unlock more clusters, databases, Slack channels and schedules. That is the whole business; we sell no data and carry no ads.
Who writes the guides
Stas has spent a decade building and running production cloud infrastructure, for the Web3 provider Ankr, the crypto brokerage Caleb & Brown, the retail-media platform CitrusAd and the digital-asset custodian CloudTech Custody. He builds AI Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, with several coding agents running beside him every day.
What we believe
- Your subscription, your machine, your files. AI Bridge runs the CLIs you already pay for, on your Mac, and keeps everything in plain files you own. It collects no usage data.
- Steering, not chatting. The work happens in the agents’ own terminals; the app shows which one needs you.
- Confined by construction. Anything consequential is named in a card before it happens and recorded after.
- Honest words. No claim the product cannot back, no invented numbers, no testimonials we did not receive.
How our guides are written
The guides exist to answer questions people really ask about AI coding agents, and to answer them better than a search result usually does. The rules we hold them to:
- Sourced and dated. Every fact about another company’s product is checked against that company’s own documentation, pricing page or changelog, and listed under Sources with its date. Each guide shows the day its facts were last checked.
- First-hand where we can be. Building an app that runs these CLIs side by side means we have tested how each one starts, asks for permission, resumes and reports what it is doing. Where a guide says so, it is something we have seen ourselves.
- Fair when we compare. Comparisons say what each tool is best at, including where the answer is “not us”. Every comparison says plainly that we make AI Bridge.
- Written with AI, checked against sources. We use AI agents to research and draft, as you would expect from a company that builds for them. Every claim is checked against its source before a guide is published or updated, and we stand behind what it says.
- Corrected in the open. These tools change every week. If something is wrong or out of date, write to hello@aibridge.sh; we fix it and move the date.
Contact
hello@aibridge.sh for anything: questions, corrections, press, partnerships. The film and the live app are on the home page; how we handle your data is in the privacy policy.