{"id":22819824,"date":"2026-04-14T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/?p=22819824"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:43:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:43:50","slug":"claude-code-desktop-redesign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewstack.io\/claude-code-desktop-redesign\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic’s redesigned Claude Code desktop app lets you burn through tokens even faster"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

You’d think one major update to Claude Code would be enough for one day, but on Tuesday, Anthropic didn’t just launch routines for Claude Code<\/a> but also a redesigned desktop experience<\/a> for its coding agents — with a few small tweaks to the overall app<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Anthropic describes it, “The new app is built for how agentic coding actually feels now: many things in flight, and you in the orchestrator seat.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This means you can now see all the active and recent sessions more easily, putting the emphasis on managing agents as they work on multiple repos and across them. And for when you need to ask a question while the agent is working, you can now open a side chat that knows about the main context, but doesn’t redirect the agent while it is working (you can start those side chats with ⌘<\/code> +<\/code> ; or Ctrl + ;)<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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A terminal for Claude<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One of the marquee features is something users of OpenAI’s Codex will be quite familiar with: the updated Claude app now, for the first time, features an integrated terminal. That’s something I know I’ve been missing as I move between the two coding agents — especially given that my Claude tokens seem to be running out at an ever-increasing clip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The new app is built for how agentic coding actually feels now: many things in flight, and you in the orchestrator seat.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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