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Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

fpauser 1y ago
I just claude would'nt be so slooooow...
nedt 1y ago
If the app is as elegant as the website I have to pass. The menubar is hidden at the start - and also when you scroll back up. FAQ and Github Stars menu items are overlapping, so you could be clicking the wrong one. The icon looks like a light/dark theme switcher, but is not. Actually there is no light theme at all on the webpage, which depending on your environment can make it hard to read. I'm assuming the app is the same. Looks like I'm too old or not the target audience or both.
idk1 1y ago
Did not realise this was a third party company until i read here, I'm very surprised they're allowed to get that close to the branding without an infringement.
jFriedensreich 1y ago
Using "Beautifully and Elegant" on the website when everything is just obviously the most basic vibe coded sonnet 4 design is quite a statement.
uncompressed 1y ago
I’ve been looking for something like this, but closer to the Claude Code philosophy of a strong, terminal-first workflow. What I really want is a "Claude Code Manager" that can spin up new git worktrees, manage multiple instances, and let me jump between them - no heavy UI abstraction. I’ve noticed these UIs tend to strip away native features (plan mode, sub-agents etc.). A thin layer that preserves Claude Code’s built-ins while orchestrating instances, worktrees, and branches from the shell would be ideal for me.
andreashaerter 1y ago
Trademark action incoming in 3, 2, 1, ... and deservedly so. They even copied their graphic language. "Claudia" closely resembles "Claude," especially in the software/AI space. * IR: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=1745622&CURSOR=0 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=1... * EU: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ=018975624&CURSOR=4 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ... Edit: And the "getAsterisk" organization at https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia and https://asterisk.so/ https://asterisk.so/ which is NOT about https://www.asterisk.org/ https://www.asterisk.org/. PSA: The real Asterisk has class 42: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=980047&CURSOR=2 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=9... - Oh boy. What next? Call the next project TheRealMircosoftGoogle? Why not? Lol.
- josu 1y ago
  Use Claudia to onboard the first users, gain some traction, and when the inevitable C&D letter comes change the name.
- belter 1y ago
  McDonalds v McDowells all over again: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afXxlaUShPA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afXxlaUShPA
throwaway314155 1y ago
Does the demo actually load for anyone else? I have no clue what this looks like without downloading.
Saris 1y ago
The website somehow makes scrolling sort of stutter/hitch every few lines? I've never seen that before.
tambourine_man 1y ago
Stuck at “Loading Claudia Demo…” in Safari `Error: Problem parsing d="M 16.66% 50% L 83.33% 50%"`
curtisszmania 1y ago
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lexarflash8g 1y ago
I use WARP.dev CLI terminal that works as a coding agent and has all the models not just from Anthropic and works very similarly to all the CLI Coding Agents (Claude code, Codex, Jules, etc.) It works very fast compared to Cursor -- biggest limitation is that it doesn't have workspaces where you can get context from several repos for building your application. MCP servers also work as well just a little more complex.
- imuakame 1y ago
  Warp can actually index your codebases and cross-reference across indexed repos for context: https://docs.warp.dev/code/codebase-context#multi-repo-context https://docs.warp.dev/code/codebase-context#multi-repo-conte... For example, if you reference the example repo in your prompt, the agent will use that in what it's working on in your current repo in coming up with code diffs and running commands
- csabakissi 1y ago
  I simply tell Warp where to find the content. For example.. I created a Chrome extension boilerplate which sits in its own directory. Then, when I create a new one, I tell Warp to use this folder as the boilerplate for the new one. It works perfectly.
stere0 1y ago
Thanks for sharing and looks like a tool with great potential. I miss a good vi editing mode.
sbene970 1y ago
Beware! This seems not robust at all right now. It seems to have bad problems with even simply managing an ongoing chat session. Yes, the simple task of keeping track of which messages belong to a session.. Which means that it randomly jumps back to earlier points in your conversation, with new messages simply getting lost or located in some random new session. Go play with it, but don't use for important chats already.
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sibeliuss 1y ago
That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)
- nperez 1y ago
  Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
  - Tempest1981 1y ago
    All that manic zooming... reminded me of Wayne's World: Extreme close-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxsWw_gV3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxsWw_gV3E
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- canogat 1y ago
  Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.
  - svantana 1y ago
    Wait, you are somehow sure that no marketer was involved in making this video? Seems unlikely
  - dcreater 1y ago
    It stuns me how bad many engineers are in basic communication. Made something? Dont start with a long, protracted "This is how i built it from step 1". Show the damn thing! Then tell me how you built which i will be interested in only if the product is good to begin with.
- fullstackwife 1y ago
chis 1y ago
Really good idea, I’ll have to try it out. The thing I really want is to have the ability to give a recipe for a new Claude code instance - spin up a docker image with code, data, and a running server and then let Claude work against that.
- TheTaytay 1y ago
  I’ve been wanting the same thing. I am currently experimenting with a container that adds what I want. I keep wanting my sandboxed dev machine that is preconfigured with Claude (and almost nothing else)…but then I also want my customized Claude. I saw someone here on HN the other day who just spins up a Docker container and shares their home directory Claude files with it to facilitate the customized Claude container: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549802
  - adastra22 1y ago
    You can do this with devcontainer and still work within VSCode.
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- vunderba 1y ago
  Agree would feel far more comfortable if each Claudia project was a separate docker container that was spun up with the appropriate tooling (Node, Python, etc.) particularly with flags like `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. There is an outstanding feature request around it at least: https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia/issues/8 https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia/issues/8
- astral_drama 1y ago
  I've developed a system that checks out a git repo into a docker compose container, tells claude to read a feature story, then implement it with --dangerously-skip-permissions turned on within the container. It work well enough. I think it's another workflow, that might suit your needs, but I think the real magic continues to be in the model. Similarly, I'm sure Claudia adds some nice window dressing. Eventually folks will settle in on some local maxima for interaction and software development with LLMs. Who know what it will look like? It'd be nice if whatever comes next bumps the industry out of the current scrum and sprint style workflows, if only to break folks out of the theatrics of these software personas and rituals. Here's my WIP: https://github.com/astral-drama/filter https://github.com/astral-drama/filter
kylebenzle 1y ago
Been using Claude almost daily but can't understand the use case of this program? Seems like a step backwards?
zerealshadowban 1y ago
Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk
- rane 1y ago
  How will they make money?
  - bigyabai 1y ago
    Step 1: Manufacture a bunch of low-quality "good enough" codebases Step 2: Turn around and sell security-as-a-service to the most profitable products
  - nextworddev 1y ago
    Hosted version… like every oss project…
    - hk__2 1y ago
      It’s a desktop app.
      - nextworddev 1y ago
        many desktop apps have hosted versions
        hk__2 1y ago
        I can’t think of any free desktop app that would have a non-free hosted version.
    - fourthark 1y ago
      AGPL suggests you are correct
  - mirekrusin 1y ago
alphazard 1y ago
Does this sandbox the agents? All I want is a way to keep the agents from writing to and reading from arbitrary places on the filesystem. I want that enforced using operating system primitives rather than a pinky promise with an LLM. It already worries me that the Cursor agents occasionally try to perform operations with full absolute paths, which they wouldn't be able to know if they were properly sandboxed to the current directory.
- anoek 1y ago
  I wrote https://github.com/anoek/sandbox https://github.com/anoek/sandbox for that exact purpose, it uses overlayfs to protect your system from LLMs making unwanted changes and optionally masks out places you don't want it to be able to read from.
- xixixao 1y ago
  Too bad OSs have such lock-in. Having a macOS with great sandboxing per folder + os capability to avoid the docker hellscape would be awesome. Probably not gonna happen until we can oneshot an OS rewrite :)
  - MrDarcy 1y ago
    sarcasm? macOS and iOS has all this today.
    - nuker 1y ago
      Apple Containers!! Very new! https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYd9MC3L11o https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYd9MC3L11o
- gorbypark 1y ago
  You could try sandbox-exec. It’s kind of depreciated but was more or less designed for this exact use case I think. It’s too bad Apple doesn’t really support it anymore (although it still works in my limited testing!)
- johnfn 1y ago
theLiminator 1y ago
Is this usable with local inference?
warthog 1y ago
I was invited to be a beta user by Anthropic who is releasing this - FYI
- rmonvfer 1y ago
  What what? Are they working on a proper GUI? This is actually massive if true
- JSteph22 1y ago
  So it's made by another company but "released" by Anthropic? What does that mean?
- mi_lk 1y ago
  This is not made by Anthropic. You are either seriously misinformed, or lying
mogili 1y ago
Not sure what problem it solves on top of Claude Code. I tried it a while back when this was posted but didn't find it very useful. This being a desktop app didn't make sense to me.
- sejje 1y ago
  Many people don't like working in terminals. I'm not one of them, I live in a terminal--but those other people exist.
commandar 1y ago
On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I don't already have with Roo, except only using Claude." We're going to have to hit a collapse and consolidation cycle eventually, here. There's absolutely room for multiple options to thrive, but most of what I've seen lately has been "reimplement more or less the same thing in a slightly different wrapper."
- CjHuber 1y ago
  I mean technically you can use Claude Code Router and then use any LLM with Claudia
  - rovr138 1y ago
    Have you tried claude code router? Looking at all the options, trying to see what would be a good configuration example.
- johnisgood 1y ago
  Yeah, I am quite exhausted at this point by this. I just look at it, blink, and move on. By the way, I did not wait for the Claudia demo to load, I was on the website for like 10 seconds, still did not load so... okay then.
- scottgg 1y ago
  I’m assuming/hoping this is gonna end up as regular plugins for existing IDEs
  - commandar 1y ago
    That's kind of what I mean though. Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific side, it has every feature this app highlights on its homepage and more. It works with just about any API provider and model you could ask for. I could probably translate my existing workflow over to Claudia pretty easily, but what does that get me? A slightly different interface seems to be about it. That's the question I keep hitting with these new tool announcements.
Gys 1y ago
Love the name
- ldw_weit 1y ago
  I first read chlamydia…
  - hk__2 1y ago
    Never heard of Claudia Schiffer?
terhechte 1y ago
I tried it some weeks ago, but I went back to the CLI. Honestly, I've been a GUI app for most of my life, preferring proper GUI tools to Terminal tools, including running the GUI versions of VIM and Emacs (during my brief emacs stint). However, over the past 2 weeks I've slowly transitioned to a full cli development setup with wezterm, neovim, lazygit, fzf, fish & Claude Code. I enjoy working like this so much.
- sejje 1y ago
  > Honestly, I've been a GUI app for most of my life Don't worry, someday you'll grow wiser and maybe you'll spend some time living as a CLI executable.
SOLAR_FIELDS 1y ago
Part of the reason that I enjoy Claude code is because it has no GUI
- eddieroger 1y ago
  I was thinking the same. I like that being in my terminal makes it feel closer to a build tool than not, because that's the space it fills for me. I like that, because it's a terminal, if I connect to my main machine through SSH, it's right there waiting for me. I'm not saying there isn't room in the world for both, but so far I haven't felt the need for a GUI tool in this space.
selectnull 1y ago
"Terminal chaos?" Yes, please :)
kelnos 1y ago
I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured. At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sure I really want or need. But for people who arm themselves to the teeth with GUIs and IDEs, I guess I can see the appeal.
- christiangenco 1y ago
  I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I want to be able to send messages (with voice transcription) and approve/deny permissions and see the code diffs and all of that. Maybe something like a Telegram bot? I had hopes for Claude Code UI[1] but the web interface is too clunky on mobile. 1. https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui
  - phren0logy 1y ago
    I have been using VibeTunnel from the iPad. Probably not good for a phone, but on a slightly larger screen it's great. The tailscale integration makes it super easy.
    - metadat 1y ago
      Pretty neat, links included below for convenience: https://vibetunnel.sh/ https://vibetunnel.sh/ https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel Many of my claude tasks get frequently get stuck over small stuff, or require input from me, so I had Claude whip up something comparable in a few minutes. Now I can keep them moving remotely with ease and not be stuck in front of a desktop monitoring them! It's dreamy.
CuriouslyC 1y ago
Great design, but Vibe Kanban is a thing and it has a MCP server.
paulcole 1y ago
> Claudia's Features: Everything You Need, Beautifully Designed I’d really love to know what specifically about this is beautiful. Steve Jobs says it and for 20+ years every tech bro parrots it mindlessly. “Oh do I think I did a good job on this? It must be beautifully designed.”
- sejje 1y ago
  I agree, basically looks like a bootstrap website. Not the peak of beautiful design.
jelambs 1y ago
interesting, does it let you manage multiple claude code agents without having to spin up different git worktrees? we were discussing the other day how that's an annoying limitation of claude code compared to codex, and the friction in having to manage those different worktrees feels just not quite worth it.
- rmonvfer 1y ago
  I just run them at the same time. As long as each instance is working in different parts of the codebase, there should be no problem. No worktrees needed!
user3939382 1y ago
Doesn’t make any sense to me. GUIs are discoverability tools. LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface. Why would it need a GUI wrapper? By definition its discoverability is already 100%.
- sejje 1y ago
  > LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface LLMs are that, but claude code is not.
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rubslopes 1y ago
One thing that I'm missing from all of those Claude Code wrappers is the ability to search/replace and edit code. I'm mostly "vibing" nowadays, but often I face situations that editing the code by myself is faster than explaining it the AI.
- kristjansson 1y ago
  The first-party CC IDE integrations (Code, JetBrains) let you edit the diff under review prior to approval. Not sure if it feeds back to the thread as a correction, or just relies on CC reading the file next time it needs to
cyb0rg1 1y ago
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pjmlp 1y ago
In Electron, apparently, then provide a URL instead.
siva7 1y ago
Sorry, i don't get who this is for. For those who want to use a CLI tool but don't like using a CLI? Also it's only for API metered use?
mosselman 1y ago
That video is horrible I have no idea what is going on.
trevor-e 1y ago
Personally I like the UI for https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/ a lot more than this, although I'll have to give it a try. I see a lot of commenters asking why a GUI is necessary. When you're running several agents in parallel it becomes very handy compared to the terminal. I can easily see the status of each which I haven't found a good equivalent for when using terminal tabs. Also it handles automatically creating git worktrees for each agent which is great.
- sejje 1y ago
  Try not using tabs, that's my recommendation. You can tile terminals, you can use things like tmux to insert multiple command lines into one window, etc.
divan 1y ago
I like that it's not mutually exclusive with normal Claude Code usage in terminal. Question about Dashboard - I'm on subscription plan, and Dashboard shows - "Total Cost: $XX.YY". Is it somehow representitive towards how much credit I used in my plan, or it's just showing a costs it would take if I was using API instead?
hk__2 1y ago
The wording is bit akward given that Claudia is a female given name: you can "see Claudia in action", "get started with Claudia", run things "in Claudia". At least Claude is an agent, so it makes sense to give it a human name (which btw is neutral: in France you have both men and women called "Claude").
LarMachinarum 1y ago
for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite by Filipe Coelho (falkTX) and the KxStudio community: https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia
- IshKebab 1y ago
  Nobody cares dude. It's a totally different thing. Names can overlap if the difference is obvious. What people do care about is where names imply some relationship that isn't true. In this case the name Claudia strongly implies that this is an official Claude-related product. They'll get a cease and desist soon enough if this actually becomes popular.
  - simoncion 1y ago
    I care. I like hearing about JACK tools, and hadn't previously heard of either Claudia or LADISH. Thanks, OP!
  - _joel 1y ago
    I care, it's confusing
wild_pointer 1y ago
No Windows support :(
- andybak 1y ago
  There's Github issues mentioning windows so someone is trying to build it. But yeah - I need to bounce between multiple OS so I avoid tools that don't run on all major desktop platforms.
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Duplicake 1y ago
This looks like it was written by Claude code as well as being for Claude code Also saw this a couple months ago.
herval 1y ago
This site could use about 2 thousand fewer words and perhaps one or two images…
- chamomeal 1y ago
  Indicative of a lot of AI-generated content
schappim 1y ago
Very much feels like we're in the "Twitter client" phase of LLM IDEs...
- shmatt 1y ago
  Can you imagine Twitter/Reddit clients if the APIs were still free in the age of LLMs In a way this is probably the future state - 1000 different clients for 1000 different people, each fully customized to their taste
  - wellthisisgreat 1y ago
    > /Reddit Still miss Apollo
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- ysofunny 1y ago
  what happend after the Twitter client phase???
  - InGoodFaith 1y ago
    didn't the underlying API they built upon ramp up their pricing and effectively price them out? like a precursor to reddit's own API pricing changes that made it hard for 3rd party clients to compete. The saving grace with these API wrappers is that local models being a thing can still let them hedge against the underlying AI labs eating up their stack.
  - schappim 1y ago
    The fate of Twitterrific and Apollo for Reddit come to mind.
    - stevenpetryk 1y ago
      Wow, I really miss Apollo. I haven’t used Reddit since it got priced out.
mirrormaru56 1y ago
Well that didn' take long. There are so many Editors and IDE's now. I wonder how many will survive a year from now.
LeicaLatte 1y ago
Loving all these Claude Code as a Platform products. Hope Anthropic doesn't ban them once they become popular citing some vague TOS violation.
jshchnz 1y ago
for those interested in a native mac app for claude code: https://www.josh.ing/claudius https://www.josh.ing/claudius
maddynator 1y ago
what are some of the agents that people have built using Claude?
nicoslepicos 1y ago
For folks interested in options for working with teams of agents like Claude Code in parallel, we're building Magnet ----- Magnet - The AI workspace for agentic coding http://www.magnet.run http://www.magnet.run ------ You can think of Magnet as your workspace for collaborating with your human & AI agent team mates. We let you quickly spin up Claude Code sandboxes for every issue, and we're also thinking about how AI can be more of a thought partner in building high-quality software. We're thinking about this problem space more broadly than just trying to be a GUI for Claude Code (though that's already a great starting point). These are a few of the themes we think about: - How can we use AI to help you think critically about the features you're prioritizing and what to build next? - How can we always assemble and provide exactly the right context for every issue you're working on? - What are the best patterns for collaborating with your human & AI teammates, to ship the highest quality code? - How can you best specify exactly what you want, and verify that it's what you hoped for? Would love for y'all to try it, and I'll post a video of me building a product with Magnet a little later here - the tool's getting really fun to use! We're also very open to feedback and try to incorporate learnings quickly! I spent a large part of this weekend using Magnet to fix most of the issues someone we onboarded Friday brought up
- _1tem 1y ago
  Love it but I want an iOS companion app over Tailscale/LAN. Omnara without a central server.
cobbechampo 1y ago
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platelminto 1y ago
Tried it out for a bit - recently upgraded to Max so was willing to try one of these run-stuff-in-parallel tools. It wasn't great. - Installation using the provided binaries just fails on my machine - I have Ubuntu 22.04, which apparently has too old a version of glibc. Building from sourced worked though. - Every time I want to open a new chat, it brings me back to the project list. I don't want to click on the same project every time! - Scrolling is awful! It's slow, and it often doesn't automatically scroll down as the chat is generated so you have to do it yourself. - There's no title or anything across sessions. If I'm now working on multiple things at the same time, I want to know what I'm working on quickly! - The log/text entries take up so much space. Something like this would benefit from a much more compact view - it shouldn't use my entire screen to show me 1 TODO list and 1 tool use. - Unlike the video, the code changes are all wrapped in a "AI Summary" entry which tells me what it did in a few words, with no option (that I could find) to open the code itself. Confused, couldn't find a setting for this. - There's multiple UI bugs, and it's sluggish overall. I didn't use the Agents stuff, which (given the video starts with it) might be the main focus? But as it stands, for my attempt at running multiple Claude Code sessions at once, this was too buggy to really work. Someone else mentioned https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/, which might be more what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it lacks Linux support. I hope it gets better! I could see myself using it after a few more releases, and I'm rooting for them - just sharing my experience here for others who are considering trying it.
- yen223 1y ago
  Agreed I'm not as tied to the cli as other folks here, but even I found the Claude Code cli to be a better experience than this too. I think it will improve, but for now I'm sticking with the cli.
mmaunder 1y ago
Oof right on the edge of TM infringement with that name and color scheme. Actual instances of customer confusion being the litmus test.
- carbocation 1y ago
  Actual instance of customer confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933795
  - mmaunder 1y ago
    Ah bummer for the creators. This’ll almost certainly result in them having to change their name. Thing is, it’s not malicious on Anthropic’s part if they do C&D them. It’s actually a requirement if they don’t want to risk losing their own mark.
  - tibbon 1y ago
    I had to check on their Github to see that this wasn't an official tool. I don't want to install a tool like this that isn't made by Anthropic. I, too, find this confusing and actively dislike the naming and association here.
ComplexSystems 1y ago
I really just want a UI to integrate this into VSCode...
- DANmode 1y ago
  So, Cline.
newshackr 1y ago
There is no way this name sticks. I thought it was from anthropic at first
msikora 1y ago
So I tried it for a hot minute a few weeks ago, but uninstalled promptly once it looked like it just cannot handle pasted images very well at all. It would paste it as huge Base64 string right in there and completely lock up the UI on my MacBook Pro M3 Max. Has that been fixed? I'm really looking for a good IDE (or something better than just a terminal) for Claude Code, but I was left disappointed by Claudia...
- ryanSrich 1y ago
  This is what you're looking for https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/
  - msikora 1y ago
    Well, my project is not using GitHub. Why does it need GitHub access?
dgunay 1y ago
Here's my personal workflow. I've built a relatively small (<5k LoC Go) CLI to facilitate it. Mostly vibe coded in a dogfooded fashion. When I want to start an agent, I run a small command that takes in a prompt (and some optional flags but mostly the defaults are what I want). It does this: 1. Check out a worktree from a repo (defaults to my bread and butter repo with completions for the most active ~5 repos in my org) 2. Craft a command to launch an agent (supports codex, opencode, and gemini-cli because my company only gives us OpenAI keys). 3. Launch the command in a tmux session. 4. Exit 0. There are some light integrations with Jira, GitHub, etc but they're accomplished by shelling out to other tools. If I want to manage sessions, I've got tmux + fzf + other unixy tools old & new to manage them. If I want to manage sessions remotely, there is vibetunnel. It would be cool to have a slicker AFK experience, but it works. My silly little piece of vibe coded slop and duct tape, for my use case, is largely competitive with most of the offerings on the market, outside of the ones that do cloud-based environments. Some of these projects are VC funded teams of people working full time, I'm assuming. What a time to be alive. I'm also amazed at how readily projects like this just embrace Claude Code lock-in. Is there really anything specific about it that other agent harnesses don't support? I haven't used it yet, but so far it just seems like it benefits in mindshare alone from being the default/first mover, not because it supports any particular feature the others do not. TBF I do hear that it is quite good. Quality & polish is a compelling reason to _use_ something, but it's not a compelling reason to build walls IMO, especially in a space like this where context engineering techniques, prompts, etc are in no way secret sauce and can be readily copied.
dostick 1y ago
The desktop companion is not the problem that needs to be solved. It seems that every developer who successfully used CC and go on to create some tool for it is doing it for the wrong reasons or because they have to do just something. CC development is not just development, not all types of development. it’s frontend JS based , and it’s backend development. Only those scenarios work. Try creating native desktop or mobile app and it’s like a swamp of trial and error. You have to learn by trial and error what documentation sets and instructions you have to provide at which moment and context and balance at with token cost.. it’s a multi dimensional problem for which there are no recipes that work. On top of that your direct instructions to not use particular patterns or approaches gets forgotten and ignored y CC with later “you’re right, I should have…”. I am starting to think it’s not solvable by the user by providing docs, examples and instructions. That Claude must have native development baked in to the same level as they baked in the frontend and backend. What I am getting to is - make a tool to manage those doc sets and contexts and instructions and allow to share those sets between users globally as recipes.
- Uehreka 1y ago
  > CC development is not just development, not all types of development. it’s frontend JS based , and it’s backend development. Only those scenarios work. > Try creating native desktop or mobile app and it’s like a swamp of trial and error. I had it build an Android app and embedded code for a BLE peripheral at the same time, tailing the logs from each to debug issues. It worked great. I generally avoid stating in concrete terms what Claude Code “can’t” do. Especially since it keeps getting new built-in features (like the ability to background shell processes and then tail their logs later) that often fix issues people talk about having had a month ago.
- extr 1y ago
  It's already a solved problem. Just use GPT-5-Thinking (or Pro) to create a highly detailed spec to execute against. You can also download the entire docs/source code for whatever libraries you're using and tell the AI to reference/search it as needed. Works great.
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MunishMummadi 1y ago
i don't want to be a boomer but their is a reason for cc to be a terminal experience. why do you even want to use it via GUI?
super256 1y ago
I need this in my IDE, not as a Web app.
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nsonha 1y ago
all these tools just assume claude code, even though what they do is piping input into a cli that doesn't have to be claude.
tomtomtomtomtom 1y ago
I am going to give it a try. I like the idea. One thing, slow down the main animation on your home page, like a lot. And add a about us and contact section to your webiste, you want to gain the trust of the visitors.
raybytes 1y ago
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I just claude would'nt be so slooooow...

nedt 1y ago

If the app is as elegant as the website I have to pass. The menubar is hidden at the start - and also when you scroll back up. FAQ and Github Stars menu items are overlapping, so you could be clicking the wrong one. The icon looks like a light/dark theme switcher, but is not. Actually there is no light theme at all on the webpage, which depending on your environment can make it hard to read. I'm assuming the app is the same. Looks like I'm too old or not the target audience or both.

idk1 1y ago

Did not realise this was a third party company until i read here, I'm very surprised they're allowed to get that close to the branding without an infringement.

jFriedensreich 1y ago

Using "Beautifully and Elegant" on the website when everything is just obviously the most basic vibe coded sonnet 4 design is quite a statement.

uncompressed 1y ago

I’ve been looking for something like this, but closer to the Claude Code philosophy of a strong, terminal-first workflow. What I really want is a "Claude Code Manager" that can spin up new git worktrees, manage multiple instances, and let me jump between them - no heavy UI abstraction. I’ve noticed these UIs tend to strip away native features (plan mode, sub-agents etc.). A thin layer that preserves Claude Code’s built-ins while orchestrating instances, worktrees, and branches from the shell would be ideal for me.

andreashaerter 1y ago

Trademark action incoming in 3, 2, 1, ... and deservedly so. They even copied their graphic language. "Claudia" closely resembles "Claude," especially in the software/AI space. * IR: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=1745622&CURSOR=0 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=1... * EU: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ=018975624&CURSOR=4 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerHABM?AKZ... Edit: And the "getAsterisk" organization at https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia and https://asterisk.so/ https://asterisk.so/ which is NOT about https://www.asterisk.org/ https://www.asterisk.org/. PSA: The real Asterisk has class 42: https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=980047&CURSOR=2 https://register.dpma.de/DPMAregister/marke/registerIR?AKZ=9... - Oh boy. What next? Call the next project TheRealMircosoftGoogle? Why not? Lol.

josu 1y ago
Use Claudia to onboard the first users, gain some traction, and when the inevitable C&D letter comes change the name.
belter 1y ago
McDonalds v McDowells all over again: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afXxlaUShPA https://www.youtube.com/shorts/afXxlaUShPA

throwaway314155 1y ago

Does the demo actually load for anyone else? I have no clue what this looks like without downloading.

Saris 1y ago

The website somehow makes scrolling sort of stutter/hitch every few lines? I've never seen that before.

tambourine_man 1y ago

Stuck at “Loading Claudia Demo…” in Safari `Error: Problem parsing d="M 16.66% 50% L 83.33% 50%"`

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lexarflash8g 1y ago

I use WARP.dev CLI terminal that works as a coding agent and has all the models not just from Anthropic and works very similarly to all the CLI Coding Agents (Claude code, Codex, Jules, etc.) It works very fast compared to Cursor -- biggest limitation is that it doesn't have workspaces where you can get context from several repos for building your application. MCP servers also work as well just a little more complex.

imuakame 1y ago
Warp can actually index your codebases and cross-reference across indexed repos for context: https://docs.warp.dev/code/codebase-context#multi-repo-context https://docs.warp.dev/code/codebase-context#multi-repo-conte... For example, if you reference the example repo in your prompt, the agent will use that in what it's working on in your current repo in coming up with code diffs and running commands
csabakissi 1y ago
I simply tell Warp where to find the content. For example.. I created a Chrome extension boilerplate which sits in its own directory. Then, when I create a new one, I tell Warp to use this folder as the boilerplate for the new one. It works perfectly.

stere0 1y ago

Thanks for sharing and looks like a tool with great potential. I miss a good vi editing mode.

sbene970 1y ago

Beware! This seems not robust at all right now. It seems to have bad problems with even simply managing an ongoing chat session. Yes, the simple task of keeping track of which messages belong to a session.. Which means that it randomly jumps back to earlier points in your conversation, with new messages simply getting lost or located in some random new session. Go play with it, but don't use for important chats already.

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sibeliuss 1y ago

That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)

nperez 1y ago
Agreed 100%. When you work on an app every day, it all makes sense to see the cool features flash by, but you need to design for people who don't have a clue what your app does.
- Tempest1981 1y ago
  All that manic zooming... reminded me of Wayne's World: Extreme close-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxsWw_gV3E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdxsWw_gV3E
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canogat 1y ago
Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.
- svantana 1y ago
  Wait, you are somehow sure that no marketer was involved in making this video? Seems unlikely
- dcreater 1y ago
  It stuns me how bad many engineers are in basic communication. Made something? Dont start with a long, protracted "This is how i built it from step 1". Show the damn thing! Then tell me how you built which i will be interested in only if the product is good to begin with.
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chis 1y ago

Really good idea, I’ll have to try it out. The thing I really want is to have the ability to give a recipe for a new Claude code instance - spin up a docker image with code, data, and a running server and then let Claude work against that.

TheTaytay 1y ago
I’ve been wanting the same thing. I am currently experimenting with a container that adds what I want. I keep wanting my sandboxed dev machine that is preconfigured with Claude (and almost nothing else)…but then I also want my customized Claude. I saw someone here on HN the other day who just spins up a Docker container and shares their home directory Claude files with it to facilitate the customized Claude container: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44549802
- adastra22 1y ago
  You can do this with devcontainer and still work within VSCode.
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vunderba 1y ago
Agree would feel far more comfortable if each Claudia project was a separate docker container that was spun up with the appropriate tooling (Node, Python, etc.) particularly with flags like `--dangerously-skip-permissions`. There is an outstanding feature request around it at least: https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia/issues/8 https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia/issues/8
astral_drama 1y ago
I've developed a system that checks out a git repo into a docker compose container, tells claude to read a feature story, then implement it with --dangerously-skip-permissions turned on within the container. It work well enough. I think it's another workflow, that might suit your needs, but I think the real magic continues to be in the model. Similarly, I'm sure Claudia adds some nice window dressing. Eventually folks will settle in on some local maxima for interaction and software development with LLMs. Who know what it will look like? It'd be nice if whatever comes next bumps the industry out of the current scrum and sprint style workflows, if only to break folks out of the theatrics of these software personas and rituals. Here's my WIP: https://github.com/astral-drama/filter https://github.com/astral-drama/filter

kylebenzle 1y ago

Been using Claude almost daily but can't understand the use case of this program? Seems like a step backwards?

zerealshadowban 1y ago

Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk

rane 1y ago
How will they make money?
- bigyabai 1y ago
  Step 1: Manufacture a bunch of low-quality "good enough" codebases Step 2: Turn around and sell security-as-a-service to the most profitable products
- nextworddev 1y ago
  Hosted version… like every oss project…
  - hk__2 1y ago
    It’s a desktop app.
    - nextworddev 1y ago
      many desktop apps have hosted versions
      - hk__2 1y ago
        I can’t think of any free desktop app that would have a non-free hosted version.
  - fourthark 1y ago
    AGPL suggests you are correct
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alphazard 1y ago

Does this sandbox the agents? All I want is a way to keep the agents from writing to and reading from arbitrary places on the filesystem. I want that enforced using operating system primitives rather than a pinky promise with an LLM. It already worries me that the Cursor agents occasionally try to perform operations with full absolute paths, which they wouldn't be able to know if they were properly sandboxed to the current directory.

anoek 1y ago
I wrote https://github.com/anoek/sandbox https://github.com/anoek/sandbox for that exact purpose, it uses overlayfs to protect your system from LLMs making unwanted changes and optionally masks out places you don't want it to be able to read from.
xixixao 1y ago
Too bad OSs have such lock-in. Having a macOS with great sandboxing per folder + os capability to avoid the docker hellscape would be awesome. Probably not gonna happen until we can oneshot an OS rewrite :)
- MrDarcy 1y ago
  sarcasm? macOS and iOS has all this today.
  - nuker 1y ago
    Apple Containers!! Very new! https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYd9MC3L11o https://youtube.com/watch?v=CYd9MC3L11o
gorbypark 1y ago
You could try sandbox-exec. It’s kind of depreciated but was more or less designed for this exact use case I think. It’s too bad Apple doesn’t really support it anymore (although it still works in my limited testing!)
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theLiminator 1y ago

Is this usable with local inference?

warthog 1y ago

I was invited to be a beta user by Anthropic who is releasing this - FYI

rmonvfer 1y ago
What what? Are they working on a proper GUI? This is actually massive if true
JSteph22 1y ago
So it's made by another company but "released" by Anthropic? What does that mean?
mi_lk 1y ago
This is not made by Anthropic. You are either seriously misinformed, or lying

mogili 1y ago

Not sure what problem it solves on top of Claude Code. I tried it a while back when this was posted but didn't find it very useful. This being a desktop app didn't make sense to me.

sejje 1y ago
Many people don't like working in terminals. I'm not one of them, I live in a terminal--but those other people exist.

commandar 1y ago

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I don't already have with Roo, except only using Claude." We're going to have to hit a collapse and consolidation cycle eventually, here. There's absolutely room for multiple options to thrive, but most of what I've seen lately has been "reimplement more or less the same thing in a slightly different wrapper."

CjHuber 1y ago
I mean technically you can use Claude Code Router and then use any LLM with Claudia
- rovr138 1y ago
  Have you tried claude code router? Looking at all the options, trying to see what would be a good configuration example.
johnisgood 1y ago
Yeah, I am quite exhausted at this point by this. I just look at it, blink, and move on. By the way, I did not wait for the Claudia demo to load, I was on the website for like 10 seconds, still did not load so... okay then.
scottgg 1y ago
I’m assuming/hoping this is gonna end up as regular plugins for existing IDEs
- commandar 1y ago
  That's kind of what I mean though. Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific side, it has every feature this app highlights on its homepage and more. It works with just about any API provider and model you could ask for. I could probably translate my existing workflow over to Claudia pretty easily, but what does that get me? A slightly different interface seems to be about it. That's the question I keep hitting with these new tool announcements.

Gys 1y ago

Love the name

ldw_weit 1y ago
I first read chlamydia…
- hk__2 1y ago
  Never heard of Claudia Schiffer?

terhechte 1y ago

I tried it some weeks ago, but I went back to the CLI. Honestly, I've been a GUI app for most of my life, preferring proper GUI tools to Terminal tools, including running the GUI versions of VIM and Emacs (during my brief emacs stint). However, over the past 2 weeks I've slowly transitioned to a full cli development setup with wezterm, neovim, lazygit, fzf, fish & Claude Code. I enjoy working like this so much.

sejje 1y ago
> Honestly, I've been a GUI app for most of my life Don't worry, someday you'll grow wiser and maybe you'll spend some time living as a CLI executable.

SOLAR_FIELDS 1y ago

Part of the reason that I enjoy Claude code is because it has no GUI

eddieroger 1y ago
I was thinking the same. I like that being in my terminal makes it feel closer to a build tool than not, because that's the space it fills for me. I like that, because it's a terminal, if I connect to my main machine through SSH, it's right there waiting for me. I'm not saying there isn't room in the world for both, but so far I haven't felt the need for a GUI tool in this space.

selectnull 1y ago

"Terminal chaos?" Yes, please :)

kelnos 1y ago

I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured. At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sure I really want or need. But for people who arm themselves to the teeth with GUIs and IDEs, I guess I can see the appeal.

christiangenco 1y ago
I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I want to be able to send messages (with voice transcription) and approve/deny permissions and see the code diffs and all of that. Maybe something like a Telegram bot? I had hopes for Claude Code UI[1] but the web interface is too clunky on mobile. 1. https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui https://github.com/siteboon/claudecodeui
- phren0logy 1y ago
  I have been using VibeTunnel from the iPad. Probably not good for a phone, but on a slightly larger screen it's great. The tailscale integration makes it super easy.
  - metadat 1y ago
    Pretty neat, links included below for convenience: https://vibetunnel.sh/ https://vibetunnel.sh/ https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel https://github.com/amantus-ai/vibetunnel Many of my claude tasks get frequently get stuck over small stuff, or require input from me, so I had Claude whip up something comparable in a few minutes. Now I can keep them moving remotely with ease and not be stuck in front of a desktop monitoring them! It's dreamy.

CuriouslyC 1y ago

Great design, but Vibe Kanban is a thing and it has a MCP server.

paulcole 1y ago

> Claudia's Features: Everything You Need, Beautifully Designed I’d really love to know what specifically about this is beautiful. Steve Jobs says it and for 20+ years every tech bro parrots it mindlessly. “Oh do I think I did a good job on this? It must be beautifully designed.”

sejje 1y ago
I agree, basically looks like a bootstrap website. Not the peak of beautiful design.

jelambs 1y ago

interesting, does it let you manage multiple claude code agents without having to spin up different git worktrees? we were discussing the other day how that's an annoying limitation of claude code compared to codex, and the friction in having to manage those different worktrees feels just not quite worth it.

rmonvfer 1y ago
I just run them at the same time. As long as each instance is working in different parts of the codebase, there should be no problem. No worktrees needed!

user3939382 1y ago

Doesn’t make any sense to me. GUIs are discoverability tools. LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface. Why would it need a GUI wrapper? By definition its discoverability is already 100%.

sejje 1y ago
> LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface LLMs are that, but claude code is not.
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rubslopes 1y ago

One thing that I'm missing from all of those Claude Code wrappers is the ability to search/replace and edit code. I'm mostly "vibing" nowadays, but often I face situations that editing the code by myself is faster than explaining it the AI.

kristjansson 1y ago
The first-party CC IDE integrations (Code, JetBrains) let you edit the diff under review prior to approval. Not sure if it feeds back to the thread as a correction, or just relies on CC reading the file next time it needs to

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pjmlp 1y ago

In Electron, apparently, then provide a URL instead.

siva7 1y ago

Sorry, i don't get who this is for. For those who want to use a CLI tool but don't like using a CLI? Also it's only for API metered use?

mosselman 1y ago

That video is horrible I have no idea what is going on.

trevor-e 1y ago

Personally I like the UI for https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/ a lot more than this, although I'll have to give it a try. I see a lot of commenters asking why a GUI is necessary. When you're running several agents in parallel it becomes very handy compared to the terminal. I can easily see the status of each which I haven't found a good equivalent for when using terminal tabs. Also it handles automatically creating git worktrees for each agent which is great.

sejje 1y ago
Try not using tabs, that's my recommendation. You can tile terminals, you can use things like tmux to insert multiple command lines into one window, etc.

divan 1y ago

I like that it's not mutually exclusive with normal Claude Code usage in terminal. Question about Dashboard - I'm on subscription plan, and Dashboard shows - "Total Cost: $XX.YY". Is it somehow representitive towards how much credit I used in my plan, or it's just showing a costs it would take if I was using API instead?

hk__2 1y ago

The wording is bit akward given that Claudia is a female given name: you can "see Claudia in action", "get started with Claudia", run things "in Claudia". At least Claude is an agent, so it makes sense to give it a human name (which btw is neutral: in France you have both men and women called "Claude").

LarMachinarum 1y ago

for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite by Filipe Coelho (falkTX) and the KxStudio community: https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia

IshKebab 1y ago
Nobody cares dude. It's a totally different thing. Names can overlap if the difference is obvious. What people do care about is where names imply some relationship that isn't true. In this case the name Claudia strongly implies that this is an official Claude-related product. They'll get a cease and desist soon enough if this actually becomes popular.
- simoncion 1y ago
  I care. I like hearing about JACK tools, and hadn't previously heard of either Claudia or LADISH. Thanks, OP!
- _joel 1y ago
  I care, it's confusing

wild_pointer 1y ago

No Windows support :(

andybak 1y ago
There's Github issues mentioning windows so someone is trying to build it. But yeah - I need to bounce between multiple OS so I avoid tools that don't run on all major desktop platforms.

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Duplicake 1y ago

This looks like it was written by Claude code as well as being for Claude code Also saw this a couple months ago.

herval 1y ago

This site could use about 2 thousand fewer words and perhaps one or two images…

chamomeal 1y ago
Indicative of a lot of AI-generated content

schappim 1y ago

Very much feels like we're in the "Twitter client" phase of LLM IDEs...

shmatt 1y ago
Can you imagine Twitter/Reddit clients if the APIs were still free in the age of LLMs In a way this is probably the future state - 1000 different clients for 1000 different people, each fully customized to their taste
- wellthisisgreat 1y ago
  > /Reddit Still miss Apollo
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ysofunny 1y ago
what happend after the Twitter client phase???
- InGoodFaith 1y ago
  didn't the underlying API they built upon ramp up their pricing and effectively price them out? like a precursor to reddit's own API pricing changes that made it hard for 3rd party clients to compete. The saving grace with these API wrappers is that local models being a thing can still let them hedge against the underlying AI labs eating up their stack.
- schappim 1y ago
  The fate of Twitterrific and Apollo for Reddit come to mind.
  - stevenpetryk 1y ago
    Wow, I really miss Apollo. I haven’t used Reddit since it got priced out.

mirrormaru56 1y ago

Well that didn' take long. There are so many Editors and IDE's now. I wonder how many will survive a year from now.

LeicaLatte 1y ago

Loving all these Claude Code as a Platform products. Hope Anthropic doesn't ban them once they become popular citing some vague TOS violation.

jshchnz 1y ago

for those interested in a native mac app for claude code: https://www.josh.ing/claudius https://www.josh.ing/claudius

maddynator 1y ago

what are some of the agents that people have built using Claude?

nicoslepicos 1y ago

For folks interested in options for working with teams of agents like Claude Code in parallel, we're building Magnet ----- Magnet - The AI workspace for agentic coding http://www.magnet.run http://www.magnet.run ------ You can think of Magnet as your workspace for collaborating with your human & AI agent team mates. We let you quickly spin up Claude Code sandboxes for every issue, and we're also thinking about how AI can be more of a thought partner in building high-quality software. We're thinking about this problem space more broadly than just trying to be a GUI for Claude Code (though that's already a great starting point). These are a few of the themes we think about: - How can we use AI to help you think critically about the features you're prioritizing and what to build next? - How can we always assemble and provide exactly the right context for every issue you're working on? - What are the best patterns for collaborating with your human & AI teammates, to ship the highest quality code? - How can you best specify exactly what you want, and verify that it's what you hoped for? Would love for y'all to try it, and I'll post a video of me building a product with Magnet a little later here - the tool's getting really fun to use! We're also very open to feedback and try to incorporate learnings quickly! I spent a large part of this weekend using Magnet to fix most of the issues someone we onboarded Friday brought up

_1tem 1y ago
Love it but I want an iOS companion app over Tailscale/LAN. Omnara without a central server.

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platelminto 1y ago

Tried it out for a bit - recently upgraded to Max so was willing to try one of these run-stuff-in-parallel tools. It wasn't great. - Installation using the provided binaries just fails on my machine - I have Ubuntu 22.04, which apparently has too old a version of glibc. Building from sourced worked though. - Every time I want to open a new chat, it brings me back to the project list. I don't want to click on the same project every time! - Scrolling is awful! It's slow, and it often doesn't automatically scroll down as the chat is generated so you have to do it yourself. - There's no title or anything across sessions. If I'm now working on multiple things at the same time, I want to know what I'm working on quickly! - The log/text entries take up so much space. Something like this would benefit from a much more compact view - it shouldn't use my entire screen to show me 1 TODO list and 1 tool use. - Unlike the video, the code changes are all wrapped in a "AI Summary" entry which tells me what it did in a few words, with no option (that I could find) to open the code itself. Confused, couldn't find a setting for this. - There's multiple UI bugs, and it's sluggish overall. I didn't use the Agents stuff, which (given the video starts with it) might be the main focus? But as it stands, for my attempt at running multiple Claude Code sessions at once, this was too buggy to really work. Someone else mentioned https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/, which might be more what I'm looking for, but unfortunately it lacks Linux support. I hope it gets better! I could see myself using it after a few more releases, and I'm rooting for them - just sharing my experience here for others who are considering trying it.

yen223 1y ago
Agreed I'm not as tied to the cli as other folks here, but even I found the Claude Code cli to be a better experience than this too. I think it will improve, but for now I'm sticking with the cli.

mmaunder 1y ago

Oof right on the edge of TM infringement with that name and color scheme. Actual instances of customer confusion being the litmus test.

carbocation 1y ago
Actual instance of customer confusion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933795 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44933795
- mmaunder 1y ago
  Ah bummer for the creators. This’ll almost certainly result in them having to change their name. Thing is, it’s not malicious on Anthropic’s part if they do C&D them. It’s actually a requirement if they don’t want to risk losing their own mark.
- tibbon 1y ago
  I had to check on their Github to see that this wasn't an official tool. I don't want to install a tool like this that isn't made by Anthropic. I, too, find this confusing and actively dislike the naming and association here.

ComplexSystems 1y ago

I really just want a UI to integrate this into VSCode...

DANmode 1y ago
So, Cline.

newshackr 1y ago

There is no way this name sticks. I thought it was from anthropic at first

msikora 1y ago

So I tried it for a hot minute a few weeks ago, but uninstalled promptly once it looked like it just cannot handle pasted images very well at all. It would paste it as huge Base64 string right in there and completely lock up the UI on my MacBook Pro M3 Max. Has that been fixed? I'm really looking for a good IDE (or something better than just a terminal) for Claude Code, but I was left disappointed by Claudia...

ryanSrich 1y ago
This is what you're looking for https://conductor.build/ https://conductor.build/
- msikora 1y ago
  Well, my project is not using GitHub. Why does it need GitHub access?

dgunay 1y ago

Here's my personal workflow. I've built a relatively small (<5k LoC Go) CLI to facilitate it. Mostly vibe coded in a dogfooded fashion. When I want to start an agent, I run a small command that takes in a prompt (and some optional flags but mostly the defaults are what I want). It does this: 1. Check out a worktree from a repo (defaults to my bread and butter repo with completions for the most active ~5 repos in my org) 2. Craft a command to launch an agent (supports codex, opencode, and gemini-cli because my company only gives us OpenAI keys). 3. Launch the command in a tmux session. 4. Exit 0. There are some light integrations with Jira, GitHub, etc but they're accomplished by shelling out to other tools. If I want to manage sessions, I've got tmux + fzf + other unixy tools old & new to manage them. If I want to manage sessions remotely, there is vibetunnel. It would be cool to have a slicker AFK experience, but it works. My silly little piece of vibe coded slop and duct tape, for my use case, is largely competitive with most of the offerings on the market, outside of the ones that do cloud-based environments. Some of these projects are VC funded teams of people working full time, I'm assuming. What a time to be alive. I'm also amazed at how readily projects like this just embrace Claude Code lock-in. Is there really anything specific about it that other agent harnesses don't support? I haven't used it yet, but so far it just seems like it benefits in mindshare alone from being the default/first mover, not because it supports any particular feature the others do not. TBF I do hear that it is quite good. Quality & polish is a compelling reason to _use_ something, but it's not a compelling reason to build walls IMO, especially in a space like this where context engineering techniques, prompts, etc are in no way secret sauce and can be readily copied.

dostick 1y ago

The desktop companion is not the problem that needs to be solved. It seems that every developer who successfully used CC and go on to create some tool for it is doing it for the wrong reasons or because they have to do just something. CC development is not just development, not all types of development. it’s frontend JS based , and it’s backend development. Only those scenarios work. Try creating native desktop or mobile app and it’s like a swamp of trial and error. You have to learn by trial and error what documentation sets and instructions you have to provide at which moment and context and balance at with token cost.. it’s a multi dimensional problem for which there are no recipes that work. On top of that your direct instructions to not use particular patterns or approaches gets forgotten and ignored y CC with later “you’re right, I should have…”. I am starting to think it’s not solvable by the user by providing docs, examples and instructions. That Claude must have native development baked in to the same level as they baked in the frontend and backend. What I am getting to is - make a tool to manage those doc sets and contexts and instructions and allow to share those sets between users globally as recipes.

Uehreka 1y ago
> CC development is not just development, not all types of development. it’s frontend JS based , and it’s backend development. Only those scenarios work. > Try creating native desktop or mobile app and it’s like a swamp of trial and error. I had it build an Android app and embedded code for a BLE peripheral at the same time, tailing the logs from each to debug issues. It worked great. I generally avoid stating in concrete terms what Claude Code “can’t” do. Especially since it keeps getting new built-in features (like the ability to background shell processes and then tail their logs later) that often fix issues people talk about having had a month ago.
extr 1y ago
It's already a solved problem. Just use GPT-5-Thinking (or Pro) to create a highly detailed spec to execute against. You can also download the entire docs/source code for whatever libraries you're using and tell the AI to reference/search it as needed. Works great.
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MunishMummadi 1y ago

i don't want to be a boomer but their is a reason for cc to be a terminal experience. why do you even want to use it via GUI?

super256 1y ago

I need this in my IDE, not as a Web app.

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nsonha 1y ago

all these tools just assume claude code, even though what they do is piping input into a cli that doesn't have to be claude.

tomtomtomtomtom 1y ago

I am going to give it a try. I like the idea. One thing, slow down the main animation on your home page, like a lot. And add a about us and contact section to your webiste, you want to gain the trust of the visitors.

raybytes 1y ago

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