Yardmaster Guide

Run your agents

Start, steer and juggle many agents

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Add and organize your projectsA project is a folder on your computer that your agents work in. Add one, group them, and change a project when its folder moves.
Start and manage sessionsA session is one conversation with an agent, working in one project. Start one, read its status, and pause, snooze or archive it.
Keep long sessions affordableEvery reply re-reads the whole conversation. Yardmaster warns you when a session gets large, holds costly automatic replies, and can continue in a fresh session.
Talk to your agentSend messages, read replies without the clutter, copy an answer, and re-run from an earlier point.
Attach files and imagesGive the agent a screenshot, a PDF, a spreadsheet or a long piece of text by attaching it to your message.
Ask a side question without derailing the agentAn aside asks the agent a quick question about the conversation. The answer appears in the chat, and the agent never sees it on its next turn.
Pre-send fact checkA second model checks the claims in an agent's reply against what the session actually did, before the reply reaches you.
Choose how much agents do on their ownAgent Permission Level decides when a Claude agent stops to ask you, from asking before every change to never asking.
Find a past conversationSearch every session, message and note by word, narrow it with filters, or hand the question to an agent with Ask AI.
Label sessions with tagsTags are short colored labels like urgent or client-work. Add them to sessions, then see every session with a tag in one list.
Choose your AI engineClaude runs your sessions by default. Turn on other engines, such as Codex, Gemini or DeepSeek, and pick one per session or per project.
Run sessions on CodexCodex is OpenAI's coding agent. Run it in Yardmaster on your ChatGPT plan, next to your Claude sessions.
Run sessions on Gemini or Anti-GravityUse Google's models in Yardmaster: Gemini with an API key, or Anti-Gravity with your Google AI plan.
Run sessions on DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax or MetaThese engines run inside Claude Code with your own key from each company, often for less money. Turn one on and pick its model.
Run sessions on OpenCodeOpenCode is a separate coding agent. It runs Claude Sonnet on your Anthropic key, or almost any model through your OpenRouter key.
Run a session on another computerSSH Remote runs a Claude session on another machine, such as a server or a cloud computer, while you drive it from Yardmaster here.
See the apps your agents are runningRunning Apps lists the development servers your sessions start, each at its own easy address, so you can open or stop them in one place.
Use the built-in BrowserThe Browser is a tabbed web browser in Yardmaster, so you can check a page or sign in to a site without leaving the app.
Let agents use the BrowserPreviewThe AI Browser preview lets your sessions open and read web pages in their own tabs, and adds bookmarks, history and a side chat for you.
Batch alerts with Focus ModeFocus Mode holds back "needs you" alerts and releases them together, after a few pile up or some time passes, so you can work without interruptions.
Watch a long piece of work progressWhen an agent works through a long plan, it can show its phases and tasks as it goes, so you see how far it has got without asking.

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