Desktop app

In the Claude Code desktop app (2.1.292 or newer), the chat and every room are drawn with the app’s own pieces: drawings, rounded pills and its buttons, in place of the terminal’s glyphs. Everything works the same, and so do the commands.

The header

• Room icons for the built-in rooms. + lists the ones without a tab and adds one.
• Your chats on a line of their own. ＋ join asks for a room’s name, then its passcode.

Chat

Bubbles like a phone’s, yours on the right, friends as chips. The chat keeps its height and scrolls on its own: ▲ shows older messages, ↓ N newer goes back down.

The band

With the pane closed, the line above the prompt is a capsule of small drawings, one per figure, with a card on hover. ‹ and › switch rooms, as /chat band <room> does. Each room draws its own (the figures here are made up):

◔ Usage the context as weather with a bar per prompt, the 5-hour and 7-day windows as orbits with a moon for the time gone, spend, cache, subagents

◔ Usage│48k││5h31%│7d58%│$4.21│98%cache│2running

◔ Usage│812k│▲ +38k│5h86%│7d91%│$142$12.80/h

past the moon, the arc turns warm: using faster than time passes

◆ Chat who's online, what's new, the latest message, or who's typing

◆ #squad│3online│2 new+5 elsewhere│samare you around? the PR is green now

◆ #design│2online│ana is typing…

⎇ Git the branch, ahead and behind, changes, and the PR's checks as a ring

⎇ Git│usage-band│↑2↓0│3changed│#279/9checks

⎇ Git│main│clean│#263 failing│1review for you

the ring: green passed, amber running, red failed

⟡ Agents a dot per Claude session on this computer, busy ones breathing, and one per subagent

⟡ Agents│3sessions│2running│squad-chatBash · 12s

▦ Monitor CPU and its trend, memory, network, temperature, battery, each turning amber or red when it needs you

▦ Monitor│38%││mem64%│↓1.2 MB/s↑84 KB/s│58°C│82%

▦ Monitor│94%││mem91%│92°C│8%

☀ Weather the sky and temperature, a drop filled with the chance of rain, the next hours, the air

☀ Weather│Taipei29°TW│20%││AQI38

☀ Weather│Tokyo18°JP│85%││AQI72

$ Stocks whether the market is open, and each symbol with its day's line

$ Stocks│open│2330▲1.8%│NVDA▼2.1%│AAPL▲0.4%

✦ Tech News the top story and its score

✦ Tech News│812│Show HN: A group chat beside your coding agent│214 comments · 3h

⌘ Snippets how many, and the latest saved

⌘ Snippets│12saved│deploy-checkbash

♫ Lo-fi an equalizer that dances while it plays and rests when paused, the title, where it is

♫ Lo-fi│lofi hip hop radio · beats to relax/study to│vol60

♫ Lo-fi│Nujabes · Aruarian Dance│1:42 / 4:05│vol60

Rooms

Each room has a body made for the app. A few of the differences:

Room	On the desktop
Usage	Spend as three tiles, subagent counts set large
Git	A commit graph like Fork’s, links that open
Agents	Each session on one line, a ring spinning while it works
Pet	A vector Clawd that moves, and strolls by the input box
Weather	A tile per city, a line for 24 hours, the sun’s arc
Snippets	Code blocks with Copy, Share and Delete

Built-in rooms has a picture of each.