jpmschweitzerandClaude Fable 5
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Spike result (probed claude 2.1.175 over stream-json): there is NO set_effort/set_thinking_effort control subtype — both are rejected. The lever is the `--effort <level>` spawn flag (low/medium/high/xhigh/max; settings.json effortLevel is the persisted default). So changing effort restarts the process: respawn-with-resume keeps the conversation and carries the flag — the same continuity /clear and /resume already rely on. - SpawnSpec.effort → orchestrator appends `--effort <level>`. - claude_pane: /effort <level> validates and respawns (toast explains the restart); bare /effort opens a picker; the pane re-applies its effort on every later respawn. Invalid level → local notice listing levels. - ModelPickerCard generalised minimally (title + isCurrent predicate) so the effort picker reuses it; effort needs exact matching because `high` is a substring of `xhigh` and alias-containment would mis-mark it. - SessionStatus.effort + StreamJsonSession.noteEffort: the wire never reports effort, so the spawner records what it set; status/sidebar read it from the normal status stream. - Routing: effort moves from the TUI-only catalog to kClideOwnedCommands. 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 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.