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# Claudia
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Beautiful AI roleplay desktop companion built with Tauri and Rust.
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## Vision
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Claudia aims to be a lightweight, desktop-native alternative to SillyTavern, focusing on roleplay and character-based interactions while maintaining a clean, modern interface.
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Desktop AI chat application built with Tauri and Rust, focused on roleplay and character-based interactions.
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## Features
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### Core Chat Features
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- 🎨 **Beautiful glassmorphic UI** - Modern design with gradient backgrounds
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- 🔧 **Bring-your-own-API** - Supports any Anthropic-compatible API
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- ✅ **API validation** - Automatic model detection via /v1/models
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- 💬 **Full conversation context** - AI remembers your entire conversation
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- 💾 **Persistent chat history** - Conversations saved per character
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- 🎯 **Streaming responses** - Real-time token display (optional)
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### Chat
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- Streaming responses with real-time display
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- Full markdown rendering with syntax highlighting
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- Message swipes (multiple response alternatives)
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- Edit and regenerate from any message
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- Per-character conversation history
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- Copy code blocks with one click
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### Character System
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- 🎭 **Multiple characters** - Switch between different AI personas
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- 🖼️ **Character avatars** - Upload custom images with zoom preview
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- 📇 **V2/V3 character cards** - Import/export Tavern-compatible cards
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- ✏️ **Full character editor** - All v2/v3 fields supported (description, scenario, examples, etc.)
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### Characters
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- V2/V3 character card import/export (PNG format)
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- Multiple characters with avatar support
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- Full character editor (description, personality, scenario, examples, etc.)
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- Character-specific chat history
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### Advanced Chat Features
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- 🔄 **Message swipes** - Generate multiple responses and swipe between them
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- ✏️ **Message editing** - Edit messages and regenerate from any point
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- 🔀 **Chat branching** - Explore alternate conversation paths
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### Roleplay Tools
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- World Info/Lorebook system with keyword detection and priority
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- Author's Note with configurable positioning
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- User Personas with chat/character locking
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- Prompt Presets with instruction blocks
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- Message Examples from character cards
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- Regex Scripts for text transformations
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- Token counter with per-section breakdown
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### Message Display
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- 📝 **Full markdown rendering** - Headers, lists, tables, links, blockquotes
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- 🎨 **Syntax highlighting** - Beautiful code blocks with highlight.js
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- 📋 **Copy code blocks** - One-click copy button on hover
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- ✨ **Smooth animations** - Elegant message transitions
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### API
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- Bring-your-own-API (Anthropic-compatible)
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- Automatic model detection via /v1/models
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- API validation and error handling
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## Running
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npm run dev
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```
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Build:
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Build for production:
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```bash
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npm run build
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```
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**Note**: The dev script includes `WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1` to fix Wayland compatibility issues on KDE Plasma.
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## Configuration
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On first launch, click settings and configure:
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On first launch, configure in Settings:
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- Base URL (e.g., https://api.anthropic.com)
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- API Key
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- Model (validated from /v1/models endpoint)
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- Model
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- Config stored in `~/.config/claudia/config.json`
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- Chat history stored in `~/.config/claudia/history.json`
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Config stored in `~/.config/claudia/config.json`
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## Usage
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## Keyboard Shortcuts
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### Keyboard Shortcuts
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- **Enter** - Send message
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- **Shift+Enter** - New line in message
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- **Shift+Enter** - New line
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- **Up Arrow** - Edit last user message
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- **Left/Right Arrow** - Swipe between alternative responses
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### Character Management
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- **Character Dropdown** - Switch between characters
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- **Settings → Character Tab** - Edit current character
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- **Import v2 Card** - Import Tavern character cards (PNG format)
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- **Export v2 Card** - Export character as Tavern-compatible card
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### Interface
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- **Drag header** - Move window around your desktop
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- **Trash icon** - Clear conversation history
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- **Settings icon** - Configure API settings
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- **Minimize/Maximize** - Window controls
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- **Left/Right Arrow** - Swipe between responses
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## Roadmap
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Claudia is being developed to become a full-featured roleplay platform comparable to SillyTavern. See [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) for detailed plans including:
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See [ROADMAP.md](ROADMAP.md) for detailed development plans.
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**Coming Soon:**
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- 📚 World Info/Lorebooks for dynamic context
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- 📝 Author's Note for better prompt control
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- 👤 User Personas for identity management
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- 😊 Character Expression Sprites
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- 🔢 Token Counter and context visualization
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- 👥 Group Chats with multiple characters
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- ⚡ Quick Replies and macro system
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**Current Focus:** Chat Branching/Checkpoints for non-linear conversation exploration
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**Current Version:** v0.1.0 - Basic character chat with swipes and card import/export
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**Next Version:** v0.2.0 - Roleplay Foundation (World Info, Author's Note, Token Counter)
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**Upcoming:**
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- Chat branching with timeline visualization
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- Character expression sprites
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- Group chats with multiple characters
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- Quick replies and macro system
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- Context templates for different model formats
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## Contributing
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## Development
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This is a personal project, but feedback and suggestions are welcome! If you encounter bugs or have feature requests, please open an issue on GitHub.
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Built with:
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- Tauri 2.0
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- Rust backend
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- Vanilla JavaScript frontend
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- tiktoken-rs for token counting
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