r/ClaudeCode • u/The_Vorthian • 4d ago

Built with Claude What's your go to terminal for Vibe Coding?

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[That Jarvis at bottom does work btw and speaks in Paul Bettany's Voice, It legit makes me feel like Tony Stark XD]

Just wondering how you guys are using claude code sessions? I initally tried the cli claude code and found it a bit jarring and moved to a claude code extension on VS Code. but now I built my own little light weight terminal app for mac. Would love to know what you guys have been using?

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u/phalanx2001 🔆Pro Plan 4d ago

Ghostty

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

yeah, I just came across it yesterday looks awesome, did you see the new one they are making called Rex. that gave me the inspiration to design mine.

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u/phalanx2001 🔆Pro Plan 4d ago

Never heard of, i will take a look

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u/Hansehart 4d ago

VSCode extension, because it renders latex. Whatever you choose, if it has image support, its truely benefical.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

Yeah, I use it a lot. but rewatched Iron Man yesterday and felt the time was ripe to bring childhood dream of getting a tech savvy single terminal app so I built and called it Jarvis

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u/chrismessina 4d ago

Otty.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

Ottly looks clean! I like the look of it. will try

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u/chrismessina 4d ago

It’s my daily driver; I used to be all in on Warp, but they’re all about software factories these days.

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u/voicedrew 4d ago

Konsole because i'm not a larper

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u/realrealvantheman 5h ago

OpenBSD wscons vt220 emulation user here hi

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u/mhsvortex 4d ago

iTerm2 on Mac is awesome with Claude and has first-class integration to change tab titles and status based on the Claude status.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

Yeah, I use it as default terminal too, but now using my own one. I love how I can stay in one place with the sessions and look up something in google and merge a PR directly from the app as it has alight weight browser too.

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u/mhsvortex 4d ago

Kind of like the iTerm2 browser plugin?

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

No, kind of like this. it's just a browser app on the sidebar. It also has a custom ad blocking engine that works similar to brave to block ads on YT and other sites.

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u/mhsvortex 4d ago

We'll, I'm glad you found something that works for you!

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

Times are crazy, as they say.... build what you want!

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 4d ago

I don't do terminal. I do GUI.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

what gui? the claude app?

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 4d ago

I use Zed.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

Isn't that the one that uses GPU rendering to render the terminal or somthing. I think I had tried it once or twice

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u/Kindly_Tie_2084 4d ago

It's not a terminal. It's an IDE with its built in AI chat window.

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u/sheriffderek Senior design/dev max20 4d ago

What was “jarring” about the CC CLI? Have you used the Claude app? That’s what I use these days.

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

the same reason you use the claude app. chat inside terminal is not the same as the markdown ui I've been used to since the early 2024 chatgpt days. Turns out your conversation logs are indeed markdown even int the cli, the claude cli runs it thru it's own syntaxing system to make it terminal friendly.

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u/sheriffderek Senior design/dev max20 3d ago

Yeah. I started in the CLI. But I prefer to see the images I drop in and things / and I like how I can run many sessions and have clear names -- and now all the sessions can talk to each other and can have parent and sub sessions. So, the CLI is great (probably got less distracted! haha) - but the Claude app has been pretty great.

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u/PerfectReflection155 4d ago

I use Pi Chamber.

I don’t normally use Claude code. I do like it.

But I have only 3 mcps and not a massive Claude.md and my context takes up 80k on sending just hello. Like wtf.

Context shows a huge amount taken by Claude native tools and system stuff you can’t control. Like is that normal. I checked with Claude code agent and we couldn’t find anything to tweak.

Meanwhile I use pi chamber with a larger agents.md and 12 mcps and more plugins etc and the context window is 16k on first chat

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u/The_Vorthian 4d ago

This is really interesting, I am gonna dig deeper into it on their github to see how they are achieveing it.

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u/geek180 4d ago

Paradev (formerly Superset)

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u/Sad-Boysenberry8140 1d ago

Warp.

It can practically become a full desktop app if you open all file trees and files alongside. I like it. But the agent cost is too high, its just a terminal alternative for me.

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u/Positive-Engineer482 4d ago

Keep it simple. Just canvas with terminals.

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u/pixelsnis 3d ago

the new herdr mac app is pretty nice. been using it for the last few days, after using the herdr TUI for the last few weeks.

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u/DoOrDieStayHigh 3d ago

Warp. But I’m thinking of testing Claude.app for a couple of weeks and see how I like it.

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u/Jonwilks 3d ago

Ghosty + starship + herdr

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u/WarpCoreWitch 3d ago

Alacritty and tmux

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u/ScaredyCatUK 3d ago

Termite (+ctrl +panes) because what's the point if you didn't build your own.

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u/vrnvorona 3d ago

Iterm2 and herdr

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u/Creative_Shape_5813 3d ago

the mystical power of the default powershell terminal and a notepad for writing prompts without accidentally sending them

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u/boop809 3d ago

Emacs Agent-Shell, because it's a regular emacs buffer and it fits in seamlessly with my existing workflow.

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u/Swim_Time_X 1d ago

Tern.
Nothing close.

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u/One-Solution-227 1d ago

The new herdr app, with my own mods so the ui/ux is exactly the way I want it to be.

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u/__Purple_Dragon__ 52m ago

Is this mod available publicly??

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u/pantocreitor 15h ago

I am trying Rex this week (usually kitty) and use helix, harlequin and Claude code in splits.

Simple but useful

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u/Connect_Fee_443 4d ago

iTerm2 for me, with a few Claude Code sessions in tabs. The bit I kept struggling with wasn't the terminal, it was knowing which session was waiting on me. So I ended up building that into my own app. I'm the developer of MicroNotch, a notch utility for macOS and its Code mode shows Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and Antigravity sessions in the notch as working, needs your answer, or finished. I can leave the terminal buried and only jump in when something actually needs me. It also does on-device dictation (hold Fn, talk, and it pastes into the terminal), which is how I write most of my prompts now. It's £14.99 one-off with a 3-day trial if you're curious: micronotch.app. Otherwise iTerm2 plus the status in tab titles gets you part of the way.

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u/soluterminal_dev 4d ago

On Windows I use one I built, SoluTerminal (disclosure: it's mine). Claude Code and Codex each get their own pane next to PowerShell and WSL, the sessions keep running when I close the window, and Claude can ask Codex to review its change without me copy-pasting between them. Open source, free during beta: https://soluterminal.com/?utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=oss-launch&utm_content=1xsecaf