Even a distributed or silo'd org chart has some affinity across the hierarchy in order to keep things in overall alignment. You wouldn't expect to use a product suite that is, holistically, not fully compatible with its own ecosystem, even down to not having a single concept of a project. Or requiring a CLI tool in an ephemeral environment that you cannot easily configure.

That's clearly a trade-off that Anthropic have accepted but it makes for a disappointing UX. Which is a shame because Claude Desktop could easily become a hands-off IDE if it nailed things down better.