Claude at the centre
Not a terminal that happens to run Claude. cide is a Claude Code IDE: edits arrive as diffs, diagnostics come from its language servers, sessions outlive every window.
Open source · Linux-first · Rust + Tauri
The IDE built around Claude Code
cide puts a live Claude Code session at the centre of the window — a pinned tab with a tiling grid of conversations, shells and diffs — and surrounds it with a real IDE: language servers, IDEA-style git, and a team of agents that work in their own worktrees.
Agents that ship
Hand work to roles. Each task runs in its own git worktree on its own branch, reports back on the board, and is merged only after it passes your verify command.
A real IDE around it
CodeMirror with real language servers, changelists and hunk staging, a log with graph lanes, a three-pane merge, GitLab review, Docker and OpenSpec.
And the rest of an IDE
- Tear any pane or tab into its own window — the session carries on
- One window per project, or all projects as tabs
- Project tabs show what is running inside them
- Paste an image straight into the project; images open in a viewer
- Blame, file history and an outline
- Shortcuts that work under non-Latin keyboard layouts
- Proxy settings and Linux graphics fixes, each explained in a sentence
- A headless binary to inspect every piece of state
Install
Download a build for your system from the latest GitHub release: an AppImage, .deb or tarball for Linux, a .dmg for macOS. You also need the claude CLI, installed and signed in. cide runs Claude; it does not ship it.
Or build it from source
You need Rust, Node with pnpm and WebKitGTK 4.1.
git clone https://github.com/lantian/cide && cd cide
pnpm --dir ui install
./run.shA source build uses rust-analyzer and gopls from your PATH. ./build.sh makes an AppImage that carries its own language servers.
Full build and packaging guide