create-walle

Set up CTM + Wall-E in one command — a browser-based command center for AI coding agents, remote phone and tablet access, review workflows, and a personal AI agent that builds a searchable second brain from your work life.

What You Get

CTM (Coding Task Manager)

A web dashboard for running and managing AI coding sessions across multiple providers.

• Terminal Multiplexer — Run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and more side by side with live status, persistent scrollback, model switching, and AI-generated titles
• Prompt Editor — Save, version, and organize prompts with folders, tags, chains, templates, and AI search
• Task Queue — Queue prompts for sequential execution with auto-advance when the agent finishes, or step through manually
• Approval Workflows — Auto-approve tool-use requests based on learned rules; uncertain cases escalate to you
• Remote Phone & Tablet Access — Pair your phone or tablet with a QR code and use a responsive CTM UI over Microsoft Dev Tunnels, Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, or Walle Remote, with live prompts and model controls
• Code & Doc Review — Review git diffs and Markdown docs side by side, add anchored comments, and send feedback into an agent session or queue
• Model Registry — Manage providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, DeepSeek, Ollama, LM Studio, MLX, and CLI subscription providers), compare pricing, switch models per session
• Session Insights — Analyze patterns across sessions to optimize prompts and workflows

Wall-E (Personal Digital Twin)

An always-on AI agent that learns from your Slack, email, calendar, and coding sessions.

• Second Brain — Automatically ingests your digital life and coding sessions into a searchable memory store with full-text search, knowledge extraction, and pattern detection
• Proactive Intelligence — Surfaces time-sensitive items, suggests actions, and delivers morning briefings and weekly reflections without being asked
• Chat with Tools — Talk to Wall-E in the browser — it can search memories, recall prior coding sessions, look up people, run skills, and call external tools via MCP
• 21 Bundled Skills — Morning briefing, weekly reflection, proactive alerts, Slack monitoring, email sync, calendar integration, coding agent, memory search, model training, model pricing sync, and more
• Multi-Model — Works with Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and local models via Ollama, LM Studio, or MLX with smart routing
• Skill Management GUI — Search, filter, create, edit, and monitor skills from the browser with rich cards, config forms, execution history, export/import, and pre-flight validation
• Multi-Device — Share your brain across machines via Dropbox or iCloud

Install

npx create-walle install ./walle

This copies the project, installs dependencies, auto-detects your name and timezone, and starts the server. Open http://localhost:3456 to finish setup in the browser, then pair your phone or tablet from Setup if you want remote access.

Download for Mac (no terminal)

Prefer a click-to-install app? Download the notarized Wall-E.app (Apple Silicon):

⬇ Download for Mac → Wall-E-…-arm64.dmg

Open the DMG, drag Wall-E to Applications, and launch it. First run installs everything into ~/.walle and opens the dashboard — Developer-ID notarized + stapled, so there's no Gatekeeper warning. Under the hood it runs the same create-walle setup.

Commands

npx create-walle install <dir>   # Install CTM + Wall-E (or update if already installed)
npx create-walle update          # Update to latest version, keep your config
npx create-walle start           # Start as background service (auto-restarts on reboot)
npx create-walle stop            # Stop the service
npx create-walle status          # Check if running
npx create-walle logs            # Tail the service logs
npx create-walle uninstall       # Remove the auto-start service
npx create-walle -v              # Show version

Install, update, and start verify Node-native modules such as better-sqlite3 against the exact Node.js binary Wall-E will use. If you switch Node versions, Wall-E automatically runs the needed npm rebuild before starting so CTM does not crash with a NODE_MODULE_VERSION mismatch.

Pinning Node (optional — for machines with more than one Node)

On a machine with a single Node, the auto-rebuild above is all you need. But if you have two or more Node versions (e.g. a system Node and a Homebrew Node, or you switch with nvm/fnm), the daemon and a background skill can run under different majors and fight over the one compiled better-sqlite3 binary — each rebuild flips its ABI and the other side crash-loops with "MCP never became ready".

To stop that, lock CTM + Wall-E to one Node:

bash bin/pin-node.sh          # pin to your current node version
bash bin/pin-node.sh 22.12.0  # …or an explicit version
bash bin/pin-node.sh --unpin  # revert to the default (auto-rebuild) behavior

This writes a .node-version so the launchers always resolve that exact Node and the daemon refuses to start under a different major (with a clear message) instead of silently corrupting the native binary. Existing installs adopt it the moment you run the command — nothing else changes.

Setup

On first launch, the browser setup page guides you through:

1. Owner name — auto-detected from git config
2. API key — enter manually, or click "Auto-detect" to find it from your shell environment, Claude Code OAuth, or corporate devbox
3. Integrations — connect Slack (OAuth), email and calendar auto-detected on macOS
4. Remote phone and tablet access — optional QR pairing with Microsoft Dev Tunnels, Tailscale, Cloudflare Tunnel, or Walle Remote, including touch-friendly prompts and model controls

Custom Port

CTM_PORT=5000 npx create-walle install ./walle

Wall-E runs on CTM_PORT + 1 (e.g., 5001).

Architecture

Everything runs locally. CTM serves the dashboard, Wall-E runs as a background agent. Both use SQLite — no external databases, no cloud dependency beyond your LLM API keys.

| Component | Default Port | What it does | |-----------|-------------|--------------| | CTM | 3456 | Dashboard, multi-agent terminal, prompt editor, queue, model registry, code/doc review, remote phone/tablet UI | | Wall-E | 3457 | AI agent, brain database, skills engine, multi-model chat API |

Links

• Homepage

License

MIT