jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.8
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The `clide` shell client only ever computed the socket path from the workspace's FNV-1a hash — it never read CLIDE_SOCK, so the var the app exports to spawned agents was a no-op and a bogus CLIDE_SOCK was silently ignored (it still hit the discovered instance). Now: when CLIDE_SOCK is set the client connects to it directly, beating discovery, and a dead socket aborts with EX_UNAVAILABLE rather than falling back to a different instance (the split-brain footgun). Unset → the deterministic per-workspace path (D-70) as before. The server keeps deterministic binding; this is a client-side targeting override only. Also fixes a pre-existing -Wstringop-truncation warning in find_workspace_root (strncpy+manual-null → snprintf). Tests: the e2e suite now clears the inherited CLIDE_SOCK so discovery tests stay hermetic (the suite may run inside a clide instance), plus two new tests — a valid CLIDE_SOCK pins from a non-git dir, a dead one fails loudly and returns no data. 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. 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.