Developer workflows, with less workflow overhead.
Development rarely happens in a single window. A single task can move across issues, repositories, AI chats, terminals, Git states, pull requests, and CI before it ships.
Zide is built to keep more of that work connected around the repository, while the developer's existing tools, tests, Git history, and review process remain authoritative.
A real Zide workspace showing repository context, Zide Assist, terminal output, and Git state in one view.
What are you trying to do?
From issue to reviewed pull request
A backend engineer picks up a bug where an API continuously returns a stale subscription plan after a downgrade.
The first step is understanding the root cause. The issue stays pinned alongside the code while Zide Assist helps trace the relevant execution path.
The initial fix still fails a real test because the invalidation is not being awaited. The engineer can see the terminal output, adjust the change, rerun the test, and review the resulting Git diff before deciding what moves forward.
Git is still Git. The project tests still decide what passes. The developer still reviews the code.
This is part of why we built Zide around more than code generation. A small fix can move through issue context, investigation, testing, Git review, and the normal pull request process without requiring the developer to reconstruct the task every time the tool changes.
Explore the Product WorkflowThe issue or task, repository context, terminal result, and Git diff in one screenshot, or a short three-step sequence.
One change, several repositories
A change may begin in one service and finish somewhere else.
An entitlements update might touch a token issuer, API gateway, and frontend simultaneously. While each repository maintains its own Git history, tests, and deployment lifecycle, the intent behind the change must stay unified across all three.
Zide is designed to make that kind of work easier to follow. The developer can move between the repositories involved in the task while keeping the broader context visible.
The producer can be reviewed and tested first. The gateway and frontend can then be handled in their own repositories, with their own tests and Git diffs. Nothing needs to be collapsed into one repository just to keep the work understandable.
Deployment order often matters as much as the code itself. One service may need to handle backward compatibility before another service starts producing the new behavior.
This is part of why we built Zide around projects rather than assuming every development task fits inside one repository.
See Multi-Repo CapabilitiesMultiple repositories open in Zide with the active task visible. If supported in the current build, show separate Git state for the repositories involved.
Use AI without giving up the review loop
A refactor can look simple until the differences between implementations start to matter.
Three integration clients might all feature retry logic, but each behaves differently. One retries network failures, another uses exponential backoff, and a third must avoid retrying write operations entirely.
Before changing anything, the useful first step is investigation. Zide can help keep the relevant files, the AI conversation, terminal output, and Git changes in the same working context while the developer checks whether the agent has understood the differences correctly.
The change can then stay scoped. A real test run may expose something the agent explanation missed. The fix can be adjusted, the tests rerun, and the resulting Git diff reviewed before the work moves forward.
Use Zide Assist, supported CLI agents, your own AI API keys, or local models where configured.
AI can help with the investigation and implementation. The project tests still decide what passes. The developer still decides what gets committed.
AI proposes. Tests verify. The developer reviews.
See AI Agents in ZideZide Assist beside the relevant source files, followed by a real test result and Git diff. A short three-step sequence would work well.
Keep active work separate without putting it away
An engineer can be midway through feature work when something more urgent arrives: a production bug, review feedback, or another task that needs a different branch.
With Git worktrees, those tasks do not have to compete for the same working directory.
The unfinished feature can stay exactly where it is. A hotfix can start from a clean branch in its own worktree, with its own files, terminal, tests, and Git state. The developer can investigate the issue, run the project tests, review the diff, and ship the fix without first stashing or committing unrelated work.
When the hotfix is finished, the original feature work is still there in the state it was left in.
This is part of why we built worktrees into the Zide workflow. Interruptions are normal. The current task should not have to be artificially wrapped up just because another branch needs attention.
Branches are cheap. Working state is not.
See Git & WorktreesMultiple worktrees for the same repository, then a selected hotfix worktree with its own branch and Git state.
Keep more of the development loop connected
A normal debugging task may move through an issue, the repository, an AI assistant, the terminal, Git, a pull request, and CI.
The problem is not just the number of tools. It is how often the developer has to rebuild the context of the task while moving between them.
A validation regression is a good example. The issue describes the behavior to reproduce. The investigation follows the relevant code path. A real test run exposes the failure. That result becomes the next debugging input, rather than something that has to be copied into another tool and explained again.
The fix can stay scoped to the affected code and test. The project's own test and build commands remain authoritative. Before anything is committed, the developer reviews the actual Git diff and continues through the normal pull request and CI process.
Zide is designed to keep more of that loop visible around the work itself, without pretending the surrounding engineering systems no longer matter.
Fewer windows is useful. Fewer context resets matters more.
See the Connected Product WorkflowOne debugging flow with task context, source files, terminal output, and Git diff visible across the same Zide workspace.
Different problems, the same operating model
01Understand
Start with the repository and the task.
02Investigate
Combine code, terminal output, and AI context to diagnose the issue before touching production code.
03Validate
Run the project's existing tests, linters, builds, and development commands.
04Review
Inspect the files and Git diff before the change moves forward.
05Ship
Flow naturally into your team's existing Git, PR, and CI pipeline.
Zide does not replace the toolchain. It is designed to keep more of the work around that toolchain connected.
Try Zide on the next task that crosses more than one tool.
Start with a repository. Keep the task, code, commands, AI context, Git changes, and review process closer together as the work moves forward.