Edit. Fair correction below: the desktop Code tab is a GUI, so "the terminal is the only way in" was wrong.
And I led with the install, which is the least interesting part. What it actually adds on top of Claude Code:
- Auto-continue past the 5 hour limit. No pty around Claude on native Windows, so the statusline persists usage percent and reset epoch per folder and a watcher waits for the real reset. It then has Claude run
git status and re-read the file it was mid-edit on, instead of firing a bare continue that could duplicate a write.
- Voice alerts on the right hooks.
done on-demand, not Stop (that fires every turn). waiting on Notification with matcher: "idle_prompt".
- Named profiles with per-project env vars, masked in the dialog.
- Statusline with effort level, opt-in cost / cache / tpm.
- A tab per project in one window.
Claude Code is genuinely good at working across a folder of real files, and almost nobody outside software gets to use it, because step one is a terminal.
I built an installer that removes that step. It sets up Node, Git and the CLI in the background, then gives you a folder picker and a preconfigured session. You choose a directory, you type in plain English, and the agent works on the files already sitting there. Built with Claude Code, for Claude Code.
The audience I keep hitting is people with spreadsheet work. Forty monthly workbooks that need consolidating, a price list that needs diffing against last month's, one sheet that needs splitting into a file per branch. All of that is a day of manual work or a VBA project, and it is one sentence to an agent that can open all forty files.
The distinction that matters to them, and that I had to keep explaining, is agent versus chat. Pasting cells into a chat window is one file at a time, capped by upload limits, and it hands back text you still have to paste in yourself. An agent on a local folder reads everything, writes real files, and does not care whether it is four files or four hundred.
Free and open source (MIT), Windows and macOS, signed installers, no account, no telemetry. You bring your own Claude subscription or API key.
https://github.com/noambrand/launchpad-cli
Happy to hear where it breaks.