Ishoo

FROM IDEA TO FIRST TASK

Get started with Ishoo.

Make something with AI. Keep it together.

Ishoo is a desktop companion for building with a coding agent such as Claude Code. Your agent keeps the plan, tasks, important decisions and recorded results in your project. You can see what comes next and pick up the work in a new conversation.

You describe what you want to create. Your agent manages the tasks. You review the plan and what it makes.

What you need

Ishoo does not include an AI model, API credit or an AI subscription. Your agent’s service and costs are separate.

1. Install Ishoo

Download the installer for your computer:

The installer includes Ishoo and SEMMAP, which helps your agent navigate the project. It sets up their background services and connects supported agent tools it detects. You do not need to download SEMMAP separately.

The installers are unsigned. Windows may display a SmartScreen warning. The Linux package does not have a publisher signature.

Open Ishoo from your app launcher after installing.

2. Add your project

Use Ishoo’s project picker to add the folder you want to work on. Make sure your coding agent is working in that same folder.

You can start with notes, an existing project, or an idea you want to explain. Keep anything useful to the project in its folder so your agent can find it.

Ishoo uses Git underneath to preserve project history. If setup or adoption asks for a decision you don’t understand, ask your agent to explain it before proceeding.

3. Check the connection

Restart your coding agent after installing Ishoo if it was already open. Ask it:

Can you access the Ishoo and SEMMAP tools for this project? Check before making changes.

The tools connect your agent to the app. If the agent cannot access them, stop here and check the agent connection in Ishoo. Do not let it improvise a second task system in files or claim it is using Ishoo without the tools.

Under the hood, Ishoo is an MCP server. Adding a project writes this into the project's .mcp.json so any MCP-capable agent can find it:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ishoo": {
      "command": "ishoo",
      "args": ["mcp"]
    }
  }
}

When the agent connects, it receives Ishoo's working instructions automatically, and can re-read the full protocol at any time through the ishoo_brief MCP tool. If the ishoo_* tools are missing, configure the MCP server before asking the agent to operate Ishoo. A good first instruction is:

Use the Ishoo MCP tools and follow the Ishoo protocol. If the tools are not available, stop and ask me to enable the Ishoo MCP server.

If you get stuck, email [email protected] with your operating system, coding agent, and the message you see. Do not send passwords or API keys.

4. Make a small plan

Tell your connected coding agent:

Use Ishoo to make a small plan for my project. Ask me what I want to create. Show me the plan before you start. Give it a clear stopping point.

Then explain your idea in your own words. Ask for the smallest useful version you can actually try.

Open Your plan in Ishoo. Read the tasks and ask your agent to adjust anything that feels too large, confusing, or unnecessary. Then tell it to start.

5. Review the work

Home brings the next step or task in focus forward. Open a task to read its details. Recent work and Full history show the recorded activity.

A task being complete is not a guarantee that everything is correct. Read its verification, try what your agent made, and tell it what needs changing. Required checks, advisory checks, and your own judgment have different roles.

If work stops or needs attention, open the task and ask your agent to explain the interruption. Do not skip past a warning you do not understand.

6. Come back later

Start a new conversation in the same project folder and ask:

Read this project’s Ishoo plan and decisions. Tell me where we left off and what comes next before you make changes.

The project record stays with the project, instead of depending on one conversation’s memory.

Your data and backup

Ishoo runs on your computer without an Ishoo account. Your local project includes its history of tasks, decisions and recorded work.

Local does not always mean private. If the project uses a Git remote for backup or sharing, Ishoo publishes its history there too. Anyone with access to that repository may be able to read it. Keep secrets out of tasks, comments and decisions, and check who can access your remote.

Your AI provider has its own data handling. Using Ishoo does not change that provider’s terms or what you send to it.

Ishoo supports Markdown export so you can take your project record with you. Existing history stays readable and exportable after the trial ends.

Trial and price

Try the full product for 14 days, without an Ishoo account or credit card. The intended purchase is $39 USD one-time, including all v1 updates. Your coding agent is separate.

See the Ishoo pricing page for current purchase availability. You can also ask about buying Ishoo; that link opens an email, not a payment page.