100% Open Source
Every line is public — the editor, the docs, even the deploy playbooks. Fork it, audit it, own it. No hosted plan, no black boxes.
Open-source · AI-native · alpha (build from source)
The open-source AI IDE you actually own.
PaddleBoard is an open-source, AI-native IDE — a local-first harness for coding agents. Tell your agent who to be with a PERSONA.md, bring your own model keys, and manage agents, skills, and MCP servers from one place. No telemetry, no hosted plan.
Everything you'd expect, nothing you didn't ask for
PaddleBoard layers an AI-native workflow on top of Zed — on your terms.
Bring your own keys
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, and more. No hosted plan, no upsells — you own the relationship with your model provider.
Private by default
Telemetry is hard-disabled at the source — events never queue, never log, never leave your machine. Even spelling and grammar checking runs fully offline. No account required.
AI Dock
Install and manage agents, skills, personas, and MCP servers from one place — with live logs and an orchestration panel for parallel work.
Personas
Skills say what your agent can do — a PERSONA.md says who it should be. Describe a Senior Dev, an SRE, or a QA engineer and every thread holds that identity, with any model. Or just ask: "be my QA tester."
Agent workbench
A first-class agent panel with delegation, plus support for ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen agent frameworks out of the box.
Agent Sandbox
Agent-run code executes in ephemeral Podman containers under the gVisor kernel sandbox — your project mounts in, your host stays out. Every command still passes your approve/deny gate.
Set Sail
Serverless-first deploys: ship straight to Cloud Run, AWS Lambda, or Vercel in one click — the agent follows the open-source s8sskills playbook and hands you the helm for auth.
Manifest
The ship's manifest for your repo: repositories, branches, commits, stashes, and contributors in one dockable tree. Click a commit for its diff or a stash to apply it — instant, local, no waiting on git.
Built on Zed
All of Zed's speed and multibuffer editing, inherited and kept in sync — with PaddleBoard's AI-native additions layered on top.
An open-source AI IDE
PaddleBoard is an open-source AI IDE: a fast, local-first code editor — built on Zed — with an agentic, AI-native workflow built in. The full source is on GitHub under the GPL. No account, no hosted plan, no telemetry.
A harness for coding agents
Beyond editing, PaddleBoard is a harness for AI coding agents. Bring your own model keys — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Gemini Enterprise, Bedrock, Z.ai, Fireworks, and more — run a built-in agent workbench with delegation, and install or orchestrate agents, skills, and MCP servers from the AI Dock, complete with live logs and parallel runs.
Private by default, and yours
Telemetry is hard-disabled at the source, and even spelling and grammar checking runs fully offline. You own the relationship with your model providers, and your code never leaves your machine unless you send it there.
Ready to paddle your own board?
It's alpha and built from source today — released binaries are on the way. Builds aren't notarized by Apple yet, so distributed macOS apps will need a Gatekeeper bypass for now.