Claudia

Beautiful AI desktop companion built with Tauri and Rust.

Features

Core Features

• 🎨 Beautiful glassmorphic UI with gradient backgrounds and blur effects
• 🔧 Bring-your-own-API - supports any Anthropic-compatible API
• ✅ API validation via /v1/models endpoint
• 💬 Full conversation context - AI remembers your entire conversation
• 💾 Persistent chat history - conversations saved between sessions
• 🎯 Custom window controls - drag, minimize, maximize, close

Message Display

• 📝 Full markdown rendering - headers, lists, tables, links, blockquotes
• 🎨 Syntax highlighting - beautiful code blocks with highlight.js
• 📋 Copy code blocks - one-click copy button on hover
• ✨ Smooth animations - elegant message transitions

User Experience

• ⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts - Enter or Ctrl+Enter to send, Shift+Enter for new lines
• 🗑️ Clear conversations - easily start fresh
• 🎯 Auto-resizing input - textarea grows with your message
• 🎭 Light/dark mode - automatic based on system preferences

Running

npm install
npm run dev

Build:

npm run build

Note: The dev script includes WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 to fix Wayland compatibility issues on KDE Plasma.

Configuration

On first launch, click settings and configure:

• Base URL (e.g., https://api.anthropic.com)

• API Key

• Model (validated from /v1/models endpoint)

• Config stored in ~/.config/claudia/config.json

• Chat history stored in ~/.config/claudia/history.json

Usage

Keyboard Shortcuts

• Enter - Send message
• Shift+Enter - New line in message

Interface

• Drag header - Move window around your desktop
• Trash icon - Clear conversation history
• Settings icon - Configure API settings
• Minimize/Maximize - Window controls