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Re:Show HN: A desktop app for managing Claude Code sessions by kapitalx on Thursday March 12, 2026 @10:59AM (#47351584)

  Hey HN, I built Switchboard because I was running 15-20 Claude Code sessions across different projects and constantly losing track of them. Digging through ~/.claude/projects to find a conversation from a few days ago got old fast, and I kept wanting to save certain sessions to come back to later.

  The worst part was switching back to a terminal tab after 20 minutes thinking it was doing work, only to find it had been sitting there waiting for a permission approval the whole time.

  It's not a new UI on top of Claude — it just runs the actual Claude Code CLI in a built-in terminal. You get the same experience, just organized.

  Key things I find useful:

  - In-app alerts when a session is waiting for permission approval or user input
  - Full-text search across all session content (powered by SQLite FTS5)
  - Star and archive sessions to save the ones worth revisiting
  - Fork any session to branch off from a known good state
  - Set default CLI parameters per project or globally (permissions, worktree, etc.)
  - Picks up session names from Claude Code's /rename command automatically

  Tech: Electron, better-sqlite3, node-pty, xterm.js. Data stays local in
  ~/.switchboard.
Re:Show HN: A desktop app for managing Claude Code sessions by synchronizing on Thursday March 12, 2026 @12:55PM (#47353776)
Very nice - a few others have popped that are similar;

[1] https://t3.codes

[2] https://www.conductor.build

[3] https://github.com/imbue-ai/sculptor

[4] https://www.omnara.com

Re:Show HN: A desktop app for managing Claude Code sessions by kapitalx on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:39AM (#47365931)
Thank you. Yeah I looked at a few, another one is air.dev. The problem is they are recreating the actualy coding pane. Switchboard runs terminal directly.
Re:Show HN: A desktop app for managing Claude Code sessions by kapitalx on Friday March 13, 2026 @07:17PM (#47371304)
Fixed some bugs and much more stable now.

https://github.com/doctly/switchboard/releases/tag/v0.0.8