Getting started with Tegment
Download the desktop app, add your first project, and create a worktree.
Tegment is a desktop control room for running coding agents in parallel. Every git branch gets its own folder and its own terminals — so you can have one agent on a checkout fix, another on a refactor, and a third on a dependency bump, without any of them stepping on each other.
That's what it's built for first — but the terminals are ordinary shells. You can run whatever you like in them: a dev server, a build, a test watcher, or just your normal git workflow. Agents are the focus, not a requirement.
If you're new, read this page in order; if you're not, the sidebar is the fastest way around.
Install#
Download Tegment for macOS or Windows from the download section on the home page. You sign in to use Tegment, and the Community edition is free. To try Pro, start a 14-day trial through billing; cancel anytime during the trial if you don't want to continue. See Installation for the per-platform details.
Add a project#
Open Tegment and choose Add project. You can add one two ways:
- From a local clone: browse to a folder that already contains a git repository, and Tegment picks it up.
- Clone from GitHub: with GitHub connected, browse the repositories in your account (search and your organisations included), pick one and a destination folder, and Tegment clones it and adds it as a project in a single step.
Create your first worktree#
With a project open, start a new worktree from the worktree list. You can either check out an existing branch or create a new branch from a base branch. Tegment adds a git worktree in its own folder (next to your clone by default) and opens a terminal in it.
If you've connected GitHub or Jira, you can also create a worktree straight from an issue or pull request in the sidebar — Tegment names the branch from the issue for you. See Worktrees for the full flow.
Where to go next#
- Quick start — project to running build in three steps.
- Worktrees and Terminals — the day-to-day primitives.
- GitHub and Jira — pull issues and PRs into the sidebar.
- MCP server — let Claude Code and other agents drive Tegment.