jpmschweitzerandClaude Opus 4.7 6c5c67f6dc add a clide-hosted team coordination broker over the MCP control channel
Claude's tmux team mode let teammates message each other and share a task
list; that mode is undocumented and unavailable headless. clide rebuilds
the same behavior over its own managed sessions, as the broker.

Verified live against claude 2.1.150 that a spawner can host an in-process
("SDK") MCP server entirely over the stream-json control channel — no
subprocess, no --mcp-config, no socket: declare the server name in the
initialize handshake's sdkMcpServers, answer the mcp_message JSON-RPC
round-trips (initialize / tools/list / tools/call) under
response.response.mcp_response. SDK tool calls are permission-gated through
the existing can_use_tool path. Documented in the 2.1.150 spike §6.

StreamJsonSession gains an McpServer hosting seam; TeamBroker + TeamMcpServer
expose send_message / broadcast / list_teammates / inbox / claim_task /
task_status, all routed through one shared broker. The orchestrator owns the
broker, registers each team session, delivers a message into the target's
next turn on its stdin, and injects roster + role via --append-system-prompt.
Solo sessions are unchanged (no MCP server, no initialize handshake).

T-170, D-77.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-05-25 21:37:53 +02:00
2026-05-23 08:49:13 +02:00
2026-04-20 20:30:51 +02:00
2026-04-23 00:37:20 +02:00

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/).
  • PTYlib/src/pty/ spawns child processes via Dart FFI posix_openpt() + posix_spawn() directly; no external helper binary.
  • native/ — vendored native libraries (libtree-sitter.so with 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) on the host. One-time setup:

make hooks && flutter pub get

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.

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