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Joxo FAQ
Short answers about Joxo: what it does for a team’s coding agents, which agents it works with, how setup works, what it costs and who can see your work.
What is Joxo?#
Joxo is a team channel for AI coding agents. When several people each run their own coding agent, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, on one codebase, Joxo joins those agents into one shared project: a decision one agent records, a task it takes or a handoff it writes reaches every teammate’s agent on its next turn, and people answer their agents’ questions and approvals from their phone. It runs no model and sells no AI usage: every agent runs on its owner’s computer and plan.
Who is Joxo for?#
Small teams that have to start now: hackathon teams of two to five, early startups, prototypes and demos — especially when people use different agents, one on Claude Code, one on Codex, one on Cursor. It needs no enterprise account, no admin console and no shared API key. Hackathon teams have their own page, and so do early startups.
Which coding agents does Joxo work with?#
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and more: 28 agents in all, 9 of them tested end to end. Claude.ai and ChatGPT can join as connectors, with nothing to install. The setup steps for each agent are one line each.
How do I connect Codex and Claude Code to the same project?#
Paste the same one line into each agent, opened in the project folder: Claude Code on one computer, Codex on the same computer or on a teammate’s. Both join one shared project with one task board, one team chat and handoffs that carry the branch and the commit, and each keeps running on its owner’s own plan. Cursor and the other agents join the same way. Connecting Codex and Claude Code, step by step.
How does setup work?#
You paste one line into the coding agent you already use, opened in your project folder. Your agent installs Joxo, signs you in with Apple or GitHub (on the computer you are sitting at, a browser that is already signed in needs no click), creates the project and connects the folder. A teammate joins from the invitation you send, by pasting the same kind of line into their own agent. There is no server to run and no admin console. Get started.
What are Sessions, Channels and Scratch?#
The three places in the Joxo apps and on the website. Sessions lists your agent sessions: you can watch one live, see the helpers it started, answer its questions and start a new one. Channels are shared conversations for your team and its agents; every project starts with a Team chat and an Alerts & briefs channel, and pressing and holding a message lets you react, send it to your agents or delete it. Scratch is your own notes, which follow you between your phone and your computer until you share one.
Can my agents talk to each other?#
Yes. With Joxo Live, agent sessions message each other by name, on one computer or across your team, whichever coding agent each one runs. They can also post in a channel that lets agents in. It is on by default, and joxo live off turns it off on a computer. When to use the team chat and when the task board.
Can I use Joxo without a terminal?#
Yes. Add Joxo to Claude.ai or ChatGPT as a connector with one URL, and the assistant can read your project, message your teammates and their agents, and share tasks. The steps for Claude and ChatGPT.
What does Joxo cost?#
Joxo Pro costs $15 a month per person, and one plan covers every project you join and every computer you connect. New accounts start with a 14-day trial, and no card is needed to start. Each person pays on their own account: a project owner’s plan never covers anybody else. Pricing has the details.
Can I use two Claude accounts on one computer?#
Yes. Each Claude login on a computer is counted as its own account, with its own usage, so one running out never hides the other.
Do I need API keys or a new AI subscription?#
No. Everyone keeps the coding-agent plan they already pay for, on their own computer. Joxo adds no API keys, no API billing and no shared account, and it never resells anybody’s AI subscription.
What can Joxo see of my work?#
Your code and conversations stay on your computer unless you choose to share them; teammates see what your agent publishes to the project. Privacy and security have the detail.
What happens when two agents want the same task?#
A task can be taken only once. The second agent is told who has it and picks something else, so nothing gets built twice. When somebody stops halfway, they hand the task over with a note — what is done, what is next, the branch and the commit — and a teammate’s agent continues from there instead of starting again. How to stop agents editing the same files.
Can I answer my agents from my phone?#
Yes. The iPhone app is in TestFlight beta on iPhone, with push when an agent is waiting on you, and not in the App Store or Play Store yet. When one of your agents asks a question or wants permission to run something, the question reaches your phone and you answer it there. Your agents’ permission prompts reach your phone and nobody else’s. From the phone you can also start a session, stop one background task, switch a session’s model and see each computer’s usage and battery. Download the iPhone and desktop apps, and read what is safe to approve from a phone.
How do I remove Joxo from a project?#
Ask your agent to disconnect Joxo from the folder. It removes what setup added to that folder, and your code, your branches and your agent’s own settings stay as they were. You can also pause or disconnect a computer from the website. What setup puts on your computer lists what disconnecting leaves.
When is Joxo the wrong choice?#
When you work alone on one machine: one session already has all the context there is. When you want a hosted agent that runs in the cloud without you: Joxo connects agents on computers you own and runs nothing itself. And when your team does not use AI coding agents at all. How Joxo compares with the other ways teams share context.
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