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Getting started.

Download to first merged diff. If you already run Claude Code, this takes about five minutes.

01Prerequisites

  • macOS 13 Ventura or later, Apple Silicon or Intel.
  • Claude Code, installed and authenticated. Cyboflow drives Claude through your existing Claude Code login — there is no separate API-key field. A Max plan works best.
  • A local git repo to point it at — or an empty directory; Cyboflow will create it and initialize git for you.
Tip Never logged into Claude Code? Run claude once in any terminal and follow the login prompts before launching Cyboflow.

02Install

Grab the DMG for your architecture from the download page and drag Cyboflow into /Applications. Builds are Developer ID-signed and Apple-notarized, so Gatekeeper opens them without ceremony.

  • Apple Silicon (M1–M4) → the ARM64 build. Recommended for most Macs.
  • Intel → the x64 build.

Not sure which? Apple menu → About This Mac → check the Chip line. Once installed, the app keeps itself current — updates download in the background and apply on restart (Settings → Updates).

03First run

  1. Create or select a project

    On first launch the Welcome screen walks you through it: point Cyboflow at an existing git repo, or at a new directory and it will create it and initialize git.

  2. Start a session

    Pick a flow from the picker — Planner to turn an idea into a backlog, Sprint to execute ready tasks, Ship for both in one run — or hit Quick Session to just chat with Claude against your repo. Either way the session gets its own isolated git worktree, so your working copy is never touched.

  3. Stay in the loop

    Cyboflow pauses Claude whenever it needs to take an action. Approvals, decisions, and findings from every running agent land in Human review — navigate with j/k, decide with y/n.

  4. Ship the result

    When a run finishes, review its changes in the Diff panel, then merge the worktree back to main (squash or preserve history), open a PR, or dismiss the session and main is untouched. Merging a sprint moves its tasks to Done.

04How auth works

Cyboflow bundles the Claude Agent SDK, so the default (SDK) runtime needs nothing on your PATH — it authenticates through the credentials your Claude Code login already established. You never paste a key into the app.

Interactive PTY The optional interactive runtime spawns the real claude CLI in a live terminal, so it does need claude resolvable on your PATH (or a custom executable path configured). See SDK vs interactive PTY.

05Settings at a glance

Permission modeGlobal default for how much agents may do without asking — four modes, overridable per run. Details.
CLI runtimeAllow SDK (default · pick per run) or Interactive PTY only (force the live terminal).
Code review evalA three-judge Opus jury scores every Sprint/Ship diff at the human-review step. On by default. Details.
Privacy & telemetryAnonymized, opt-out error reporting and usage metrics — no source, prompts, or paths ever leave your machine. Details.