Paddock is a better interface for Claude Code. I created it because I love Claude so much that I keep dozens of them going, whether they're writing code or helping me plan my hot water tank install, or managing my homelab for me. But the CLI isn't really set up for managing a bunch of weeks-long Claude Code sessions, and UX-wise it's got some obvious challenges.

Paddock organizes your Claude Code sessions, lets you resume them from anywhere, and provides a much better interface for managing them. It can work alongside your existing Claude Code setup - you don't have to choose between the two. And it now works out of the box on your laptop with a single npx command. Try it out like this:

npx @edspencer/paddock -o

Paddock works with your MCP servers, your plugins, your existing chats, and your Claude Max account:

I don't know about you, but I have dozens of Claude Code sessions going at any one time. There will generally be a handful of them that I'm actively paying attention to, and then a long tail of chats that I want to keep around but might not need to look at for a while. But it's really hard to manage 50+ terminal tabs, and it's painful to restore all that state after a laptop restart.

And beyond that, I'm sick of being chained to my laptop. It's not natural. I want to be able to keep hundreds of Claude Code sessions going across any number of projects, and access them from anywhere, in a modern UI that doesn't hurt my middle-aged eyes. I need a Paddock to put my herd of Claudes in.

Paddock is a thin wrapper around Claude Code. As well as solving Claude Code terminal tab hell, it brings some powerful features that Claude Code really ought to have:

• Persistent sessions that survive restarts
• 1-click forking of sessions
• Chat sessions that can spawn child chat sessions, even between projects
• 2-way file sending with beautiful rendering of images, code, markdown and other types of content
• Triggers and schedules with per-session Claude Code configurations

It works with your Claude Max plan (and dear god will it drain that thing dry), and it frees Claude Code from the confines of a single machine. The best way to run it - the way I run it - is on a dedicated small server in your house. You can totally run it on your laptop if you want, but having Claude Code running on a 24/7 box that you can access from any laptop or phone is a game changer.

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