Powerful GUI application for Claude Code

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Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.

getAsterisk/claudia, this is an open source project, mainly for Claude Code Provides a graphical interface (GUI).

Project overview

  • Claudia Is a desktop application developed by the getAsterisk team. It is based on the Tauri framework and is oriented to users. Claude Code , providing a more intuitive and easy-to-operate graphical interface.
  • It has quite high popularity on GitHub. Currently, there are more than 10,600ˇ s and 848 Forks, licensed under the AGPL‑3.0 license.

Core Function Highlights

1. Project and session management

  • Visually browse Claude Code’s projects and historical sessions, supporting timeline viewing, intelligent search, metadata browsing and other support

2. Custom AI Agent

  • Users can create a dedicated “smart assistant” for Claude Code in the GUI, define system prompts, behaviors, and support background running
  • Support viewing logs and performance data for each execution.

3. Use Analytics and Dashboard

  • Display API token consumption, expense statistics, model and project usage in real time, and support chart viewing and data export

4. MCP (Model Context Protocol) server management

  • Centrally manage MCP server configuration, add and test connections from the UI, without having to manually edit configuration files.

5. Timeline and checkpoints

  • Support setting multiple checkpoints on a session, visually browsing historical branches, and support one-click restoration of a certain state
  • Session forking and diff viewer are also supported.

6. security features

  • Runs locally with no remote data collection;Agent runs sandbox isolation and supports file and network access permissions configuration; the entire application is privacy-friendly

Installation and platform compatibility

  • Support multi-platform deployment for Windows, macOS, and Linux
  • Basic requirements: Claude Code CLI is installed, the system requires certain resources (recommended 8GB RAM), and development tools such as Rust, Bun, and Git are also required to install
  • The official provides complete guide and operation methods for building from source code

Community feedback and user experience (from Reddit)

There are also some user experiences and discussions on Reddit. The following are typical comments:

“Introducing Claudia – A powerful GUI app and Toolkit for Claude Code. Create custom agents, manage interactive Claude Code sessions, run secure background agents, and more.”
Some users pointed out: “Claudia is used to provide a GUI interface for Claude Code, because Claude Code only runs on the terminal by default.”
Another user mentioned compatibility issues under Windows: “When I used Claudia on Windows, it couldn’t recognize the WSL terminal to start Claude Code.”
The author mentioned in reddit that it is currently possible to install from source code, but the official installation package has not yet been provided: “You can install it from source… Just executables are yet to be published.”

Summary recommendation

Claudia It is a tool for Claude Code Users ‘graphical tools greatly enhance the user experience and are suitable for developers who are accustomed to GUI operations and want to centrally manage projects, agents and usage. It not only makes operations more intuitive, but also provides security mechanisms and multiple advanced functions (such as checkpoints, analysis dashboards, etc.).

If you are accustomed to using Claude Code on your terminal, trying Claudia will be a very different but tempting experience.

GitHub：https://github.com/getAsterisk/claudia

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reference link
[1]: github
[2]: official website
[3]: Reddit Comment 1
[4]: Reddit Comment 2

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