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Your team’s agents,
in one shared IDE

Kovan is a multiplayer desktop IDE for software teams and the coding agents they run.

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macOS (Apple silicon) · Windows x64 and ARM64 · Linux x64

  • Claude Code
  • Codex
  • OpenRouter
  • GitHub
  • MCP
  • Git worktrees
  • Anthropic
  • OpenAI

Work in the same session. Everyone’s agents in view, no one in the way.

Shared context. A lead agent splits a goal across AI teammates under a budget you set, and every agent can see what the others are doing.

Live lanes. Each person prompts their own agent in their own lane. Everyone sees every lane as it streams, and any editor can answer an approval.

Local-first. Agents edit your checkout and run commands on your machine. The server coordinates sessions and plans; it never holds your source code.

Permissions and approvals. Agents start by asking. Choose Plan, Request, Allow or Full for each conversation; an approval covers that exact action, once.

Visible

Every session on one board: who is in it, which agents are running, what they touched.

Coordinated

Overlapping work is flagged before a prompt runs. Join, split the task, or carry on.

Collaborative

Comment on a diff, steer your agent mid-turn, hand a task over with its plan.

A sample of the Kovan interface with made-up data. Click around: sessions, lanes, people, agents, settings.

A native harness, built in. Every model. One key. Pay as you go.

See models and pricing

180+

models through OpenRouter

× 1.05

provider cost on managed usage, billed daily

Jev Router

A model picked for each task.

Fig. 01 Score vs cost per task Illustrative data
50 55 60 65 $2 $3 $5 $10 $15 Cost per task Task score Mid-size A Mid-size B Small A Small B Small C Small D Frontier A Frontier B JevRouter
Model Score Cost / task
Frontier A 66.0 $13.00
JevRouter 65.2 $7.80
Frontier B 61.5 $15.00

Illustrative figures that show how the trade-off is read. They are not benchmark results; real scores and costs depend on your workload.

Everyone’s agents run at the same time, on your machines, in one shared session.

Agents run in parallel.

Each teammate’s agent works in its own lane and its own Git worktree. No queue, no turns.

Local work, synced through Git.

Session branches sync as snapshots through your own remote, with your own credentials. A conflict keeps both versions.

One session, live for all.

Everyone sees the same plan, the same lanes and the same changes as they happen.

Start a session
with your team.

Install Kovan, open a repository, invite a teammate.

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