jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.8
03d053274e
Desktop/dock-launched clide inherits a sparse PATH (no ~/.local/bin, brew, nvm, …), so pql/git/claude and PTY tools went missing. T-347 fixed only the toolchain/pql path on Linux; env.dart's expander was still macOS-only and claude/PTY/git used the raw PATH — the breakage recurred per spawn site because there were three divergent expanders. Consolidate into one resolver (lib/src/env/shell_env.dart): - primeLoginShellPath(): probe the user's real login shell once at startup (`$SHELL -l -c`, sentinel-framed, bounded timeout, graceful fallback to the process PATH). Captures the user's actual PATH, not a hardcoded guess. - expandToolPath(): the canonical merge (moved from toolchain_paths, which re-exports it for its tests) — unions the well-known user/local bin dirs. - resolvedToolPath(): currentSearchPath() + expandToolPath, the single call every spawn site uses. Routed through it: PTY children (registry.dart now overrides PATH), git (env.dart → operations.dart), the toolchain probe (toolchain_paths), and hosted claude (agent_bootstrap). Primed in main.dart's !kIsWeb boot. Deleted the macOS-only env.dart copy and the cli_install copy. Tests: new shell_env_test (probe + every fallback + merge); env_test and cli_install_test updated to the consolidated surface. analyze clean, web wasm build still green, make test green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
clide
An IDE for Claude Code CLI. Native rendering, terminal-first interaction, pql-powered queries, canvas and graph surfaces. Linux and macOS.
Architecture
Single Flutter package at the repo root. The app hosts everything in-process: IPC server, subsystem handlers (pane, files, editor, git, pql), and the extension framework. tmux owns Claude session persistence (D-41).
lib/— all Dart code. Core subsystems (lib/src/), kernel services (lib/kernel/), UI widgets (lib/widgets/), built-in extensions (lib/builtin/), the extension framework (lib/extension/).- PTY —
lib/src/pty/spawns child processes via Dart FFIposix_openpt()+posix_spawn()directly; no external helper binary. native/— vendored native libraries (libtree-sitter.sowith wasmtime embedded). Linux only today.- pql — external supporter tool. Clide wraps it for every query surface; never re-implements it.
Claude drives the UI through a clide CLI surface (Bash, not MCP). Every CLI subcommand has a UI affordance and every UI action has a CLI equivalent (D-6).
Built-in extensions
canvas, claude, claude_control, decisions, diff, editor, extensions_ui, files, git, graph, grammars_core, ipc_status, keybindings_ui, markdown, pql, problems, settings_ui, terminal, theme_picker, tickets, todos, welcome.
Building
Requires Flutter (stable channel) and pql
on the host. pql is a hard dependency — the pre-push gate runs pql decisions validate and the governance + ticket workflow is built on it (see its repo for
install). One-time setup:
make hooks && flutter pub get
pql init # once, in the repo root — wires up the pql skill + perms
Then:
make run # launch the desktop app
make test # fast suite: analyze + format + unit + widget + golden
make test-core # core subsystem tests (IPC, PTY, git, pane registry)
make test-a11y # accessibility contract tests
make test-integration # real app boot integration tests
make build-linux # flutter build linux
make build-macos # flutter build macos
make push-check # pre-push gate: decisions + core + fast + a11y + coverage + changelog
Status
Pre-v2.0 (2.0.0-dev). Interaction model and panel system landed. The Python Textual v1.2.0 predecessor is archived under legacy/.
Documentation
docs/architecture.md— current architecture (read this first).CONTRIBUTING.md— how to clone, build, test, file tickets, and write D-records.docs/initial-plan.md— historical design doc; preserved as a snapshot of the 2026-04 plan, much of it now superseded.governance/decisions/— confirmed decisions (D-NNN), open questions (Q-NNN), rejected alternatives (R-NNN).CLAUDE.md— Claude-addressed working notes (guardrails, repo layout).
License
MIT. See LICENSE.