Orchestrate coding tasks from Alter

Run Claude Code asynchronously, check progress with a simple question, and keep coding work connected to your context.

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Samuel ROY & Olivier Legris
August 21, 2026

Hey everyone,

Alter can now act as a conversational command center for coding agents.

In the demo below, we use an Alter workspace containing the Alter website codebase. From one conversation, we start coding tasks with Claude Code, check their status while they run, and receive their results when they finish.

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Start coding from Alter

Enable the Coding Actions you need from the Alter Marketplace, then select Claude Code in your project workspace.

In the demo, Claude Code reviews the Alter HQ website and suggests a better layout for its comparison pages. The task runs asynchronously, so you can keep chatting with Alter while it works.

Check progress with “Status?”

Just ask Alter:

“Status?”

Alter reports what the active task is doing directly in the conversation. No separate task view is needed.

Run another task

While the first task is running, start a second Claude Code task to find stale, duplicated, or outdated landing pages.

Both tasks run independently in the same conversation, and their results return to Alter when they finish.

Keep your context connected

Alter can use the meetings, notes, and other context already in your workspace to give coding tools the right background.

Coding Actions support Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, and OpenCode.

Cheers,
Olivier & Sam.

Full Changelog

New Features & Enhancements

  • Local coding tools: Integrate Cursor, Claude Code, Codex/ChatGPT, and OpenCode as local session tools you can launch and control from Alter.

  • Details bar: The right sidebar has a new design and section to display ongoing tasks, artifacts, sources and tool call details.

  • Composer context: The composer shows which action is currently in use.

  • Export chat frontmatter: Exported chats include frontmatter with the model used.

Bug Fixes & Stability

  • Localization: Refreshed translations for French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.

  • Hub: Attach transcript context before send, preserve sources after sending, focus workspace search on popover open, defer tab context menus until hover popover teardown, and align sidebar section padding with list items on macOS 26+.

  • Action Editor: Disable Tools switch state persists across section changes; section double-click no longer opens onboarding.

  • Conversation view: Hide turn index for single-turn conversations.

  • Streaming: Surface HTTP errors during chat streaming.

  • Transcription: Harden model readiness checks.

  • Menubar: Unclip the first status-item menu row.

  • Share file: URI-decode paths when % characters are present.