I was invited to be a beta user by Anthropic who is releasing this - FYI
Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#22Not 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.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#23Really 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.
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…
You can do this with devcontainer and still work within VSCode.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#24I was invited to be a beta user by Anthropic who is releasing this - FYI
What what? Are they working on a proper GUI? This is actually massive if true
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#25I was invited to be a beta user by Anthropic who is releasing this - FYI
So it's made by another company but "released" by Anthropic? What does that mean?
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#26Does 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 c…
Perhaps this helps: https://container-use.com/introduction
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#27Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk
I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies. I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.
I also made the assumption. Once I found out it wasn't it was a huge red flag. I don't like it at all.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#28Does 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 c…
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 :)
sarcasm? macOS and iOS has all this today.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#29On 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."
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#30Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk
I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies. I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.
Agreed - I was about to send this round to my colleagues.
For once reading the comments first has paid off!