These past few years, the use of AI has been growing in coding, with tools once meant for code completion or syntax suggestions now serving as intelligent helpers, offering debugging help, generating boilerplate, and even helping design entire applications.
This has given rise to specialized tools like Claude Code, Anthropic's coding environment made for working with its AI model, Claude. With this, instead of just chatting, users give it goals like writing or fixing code, and the model figures out the steps to get it done, handling things like editing files and running tests along the way.
Now, Asterisk, a YC-backed startup, has released Claudia, a free, open source app that gives Claude Code a clean, visual interface.
Its main goal is to make working with Claude Code easier and more intuitive, where, instead of relying on command-line tools, it gives users a visual interface to manage projects, run sessions, build agents, and track progress.
Claudia includes features such as project and session management, custom AI agent creation, sandboxed execution environments, real-time usage analytics, and an integrated Markdown editor. It runs locally, ensuring that your data stays on your machine for maximum privacy and security, with no need for cloud storage or external servers.
It’s designed for developers who want the power of Claude’s code reasoning without the complexity of terminal commands. Claudia lowers the barrier to using such advanced AI tools, letting developers focus fully on solving complex problems and writing better, more efficient code.
Want to Try Claudia?
Currently, Claudia can only be built from source and supports Linux, Windows, and macOS. Before getting started, make sure to install the Claude Code CLI along with all required prerequisites and dependencies.
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