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.