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>
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) 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.