Three holes from the T-511 adversarial review pass: - An entry containing the PATH separator smuggled extra tokens into the joined PATH — a stray trailing ':' yields an EMPTY token, which POSIX shells resolve as CWD (the dot-in-PATH hazard). The CLI verb and the settings control now reject such entries, and applyPathPreset skips malformed stored values that predate the check. - The gitdir pointer a worktree resolution follows is repo-controlled text; the resolved main root is now validated (must hold a real .git directory) before its preset key is trusted, so a crafted pointer can't alias an arbitrary path's preset. - A pane spawned with a cwd below the workspace root hashed the subdirectory and silently missed the workspace preset; the lookup now keys any in-workspace cwd to the workspace root (presetLookupRoot). Also: the Add button pairs buttonBackground with its own buttonHoverBackground token instead of borrowing the list-item hover token, and the hosted-Claude leg gains an end-to-end orchestrator test (preset lookup → spawn env). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
clide
An IDE for Claude Code CLI. Native rendering, terminal-first interaction, pql-powered queries, canvas and graph surfaces. Linux, macOS and Windows.
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. Claude session persistence is --resume <session-id> against Claude Code's transcript files (D-77, superseding the tmux-backed 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, cli_install, decisions, deeplink, default_layout, diff, editor, extensions_ui, files, git, grammars_core, graph, ipc_status, keybindings_ui, markdown, menubar, output, pql, problems, search, settings_ui, terminal, theme_picker, tickets, todos, view, vim, 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
Active development; the interaction model, panel system, and settings engine have landed. The Python Textual 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.