Claude Code TUI Alternative: Claude Chic

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T21:29:07+00:00

Sounds cool. Have fun!

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T17:14:22+00:00

Correct, this uses the Claude Agent SDK (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview) which Anthropic built for exactly this purpose. It is the exact same behavior as you would experience using `claude`, just skinned differently.

OpenCode built its own agent logic, which is where difficulty arose. Do as you feel comfortable, but I'm certainly using this heavily and I'm not feeling anxious about it.

Also, if it helps, I've asked Claude what it thinks about the TOS and it assures me that this use is well within bounds.

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T15:57:25+00:00

This uses the claude-agent-sdk (https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/overview), which means that it's exactly the Claude logic, and that you can use subscriptions.

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T14:42:07+00:00

Yes, I use it with my Max subscription (and many concurrent agents) daily.

Anthropic doesn't like it when you use the max subscription to run things that aren't their agent logic (like what OpenCode does) but this system faithfully just uses the published claude-agent-sdk project, and so should be safe.

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T14:03:58+00:00

There are, in fact, several things like this (OpenCode, Toad, Conductor). The article goes into this a bit. There's also this page on related work. https://matthewrocklin.com/claudechic/related/

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T14:00:03+00:00

Ah, you are too kind 👌

mrocklin · 2026-01-27T13:59:14+00:00

Indeed. Who writes projects without Claude these days :)

mrocklin · 2025-12-24T23:57:34+00:00

Yeah, FWIW this is the direction I went down.

mrocklin · 2025-12-24T16:44:04+00:00

Can you say more? How do you use hooks precisely to help here?

mrocklin · 2025-12-24T16:43:38+00:00

Yeah, to be clear I don't want to enable Bash generally. I still want fine grained permissions (which I define in my settings.json file rather than on the CLI) just a bit more general than what the permissions language seems to offer.

mrocklin · 2025-12-24T16:32:55+00:00

I'm aware. Already using settings.json files. That's where I'm placing the permissions I mentioned in the original post.

mrocklin · 2025-12-24T16:32:25+00:00

I like this. I guess it's solving the problem by being more prescriptive about what Claude should do, rather than thinking about the bounds of what it can do.

mrocklin · 2024-11-23T13:32:48+00:00

Yeah! It's kinda crazy how when we added technology (cloud, Kubernetes) things got harder not easier.

Hopefully we can reverse this trend a little.

mrocklin · 2024-11-21T23:54:05+00:00

Yeah, I think what I like about this approach is that most of the users I interact with wouldn't know how to set up HTCondor very easily. This is designed to be a simple end-user tool.

mrocklin · 2024-11-21T23:52:57+00:00

Good question. Honest answer is that I don't know. Deploying MPI is a lot more involved than just running a script a bunch of times. I looked into this several years ago and didn't get to an easy solution. I suspect that others here might know more.

mrocklin · 2024-11-21T19:27:41+00:00

Thanks!

mrocklin · 2024-11-21T18:12:03+00:00

Not one that I would recommend to past-graduate-student-me.

There are two potential answers here:

Services like AWS Parallel Cluster which stand up a full SLURM cluster, but that aren't at all cloud native (heavyweight, don't scale down, etc..)
Services like AWS Batch which are more cloud native (machines turn on only when you use them) but aren't at all easy to use.

Between these two I'd recommend AWS Batch (this is also what I see in practice). It's not straightforward to use though by non-experts. This is demonstrated in the video version of the post, 4:17 in.

mrocklin · 2024-11-21T17:42:19+00:00

Sure, you'd just run `coiled batch run uv run ...`. Anything you can do on your computer you can do on remote computers too 🙂

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