WorkGround2: a local-first workbench that runs alongside your Codex CLI

[KiddPhenix]

WorkGround2 is a local-first, MIT-licensed AI engineering workbench 鈥?one Go binary that unifies the CLI/TUI, a desktop app, and IM bots on a single agent core. It's a layer on top of the tools you already use, not a replacement: your local Codex CLI keeps working, and WorkGround2 auto-discovers it.

I built it because I was tired of babysitting the terminal and tired of long sessions getting expensive. The four things that matter most to me:

• Easy 鈥?drop into an existing project, no cloud account, data stays on your machine.
• Simple 鈥?npm i -g WorkGround2, then WorkGround2 setup.
• Effective 鈥?long-session cache hit 90%+, input token cost down to ~1/5.
• No screen-watching 鈥?pin a session to a desktop widget; when it finishes you get a completion notification plus a short summary.

Under the hood it's multi-model (DeepSeek / OpenAI-compatible / Anthropic / local CLI), with MCP over stdio / Streamable HTTP / SSE, project memory, and every write approvable and rollback-able (checkpoint + /rewind). IM bots relay messages to a local session as a remote entry.

Repo: https://github.com/KiddPhenix/WorkGround2 鈥?issues, PRs, and honest "it broke here" reports are all welcome.