Matthew Rocklin has launched Claude Chic, an opinionated take on the CLI version of Claude Code.
A stylish terminal UI for Claude Code, built with Textual.
| uvx claudechic /welcome
Claude Code, but …
- Stylish - designed to remove clutter and focus attention
- Multi-Agent - run several Claude agents in parallel
- Hackable - easily extensible with Python Code
- Claude-forward - with the same Claude Code agent you trust
This leverages the Claude Agent SDK to provide the same Claude intelligence with a different UX.
Rocklin wrote up a blog post documenting his motivation for creating the project:
I’ve been deep in AI joy/psychosis the last couple months. The world is super fun right now.
However, as AI speeds up my workflow I find new bottlenecks, and increasingly those bottlenecks are part of my interactions with Claude itself. I wrote about this in AI Zealotry; AI can feel dehumanizing when our primary contribution is administrative, like granting permission.
Beyond permissions, various administrative interactions with Claude became tiresome, and so I worked to improve what I could about the interface for my workflow so that I could feel more human.
Claude Chic is an early result of that endeavor.
I’m enjoying Rocklin’s writing on agentic coding. As is typical of his previous endeavors (Dask, Coiled), he’s approaching it from a considerate, principled, and artisanal perspective. A few other related posts:
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