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120 points by halfwhey ↗ HN
Hello everyone.

Claudraband wraps a Claude Code TUI in a controlled terminal to enable extended workflows. It uses tmux for visible controlled sessions or xterm.js for headless sessions (a little slower), but everything is mediated by an actual Claude Code TUI.

One example of a workflow I use now is having my current Claude Code interrogate older sessions for certain decisions it made: https://github.com/halfwhey/claudraband?tab=readme-ov-file#s...

This project provides:

- Resumable non-interactive workflows. Essentially `claude -p` with session support: `cband continue <session-id> 'what was the result of the research?'` - HTTP server to remotely control a Claude Code session: `cband serve --port 8123` - ACP server to use with alternative frontends such as Zed or Toad (https://github.com/batrachianai/toad): `cband acp --model haiku`. - TypeScript library so you can integrate these workflows into your own application.

This exists cause I was using `tmux send-keys` heavily in a lot of my Claude Code workflows, but I wanted to streamline it.

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colobas
Any idea of how this interacts with Anthropic's ToS for subscription-based use?
lifis
That's cool but by only supporting Claude Code you are contributing to the Anthropic lock-in problem.

This needs to support at least Gemini CLI, Codex and OpenCode as well, preferably by being generic as much as possible.

mikeroySoft
License? I see none listed in the repo.
beepbooptheory
Isn't "Claude Code power user" an oxymoron or am I confused?
dragonfax
Using Claude Channels can make it easy to inject prompts and get just the response back without having to identify it in the terminal output or fight with the TUI.

But they're not well designed, and some things just have to go in through the terminal interface like slash commands (i.e. `/clear`)

pxc
If xterm.js is slower than tmux, why don't you just use tmux for the headless sessions as well? How is tmux not headless enough?
alun
It's interesting how Anthropic haven't shipped their own IDE for more vertical integration.

All it would take is implementing their own forked version of VSCode (like Cursor did) and making Claude the default choice.

Obviously I'm simplifying here, but they definitely have the capability to do it.

braebo
Claude Code Desktop is as close as I can see them getting as it seems the big bet is that the IDE is on its way out as models improve.
SV_BubbleTime
I’m very dumb. How is this different than starting Claude Code in a tmux and then connecting to that?
halfwhey
The extra stuff is that you can automate interactions with Claude Code sessions using a CLI (which just tmux send-keys under the hood), an HTTP server, and ACP server (so you can embed claude code in other IDEs), and typescript library. So it's meant to make CC more embeddable in your workflows.