Switchboard

A calm home for your Claude Code sessions.

Every session from every project in one quiet list, with Claude right beside it. Your hands stay on the keyboard, and a small jelly friend named Patch keeps you company.

This is a fork of doctly/switchboard. It has gone its own way: fewer panels, more keyboard, and a lot of care for how it feels to sit in all day.

What it's about

Focus. Switchboard shows you what needs you and keeps everything else out of the way. Sessions sort themselves into Needs input, Working, Pinned and Recent, with live dots so you can tell a busy Claude from a waiting one at a glance. Old sessions fold away behind "+3 older".

Minimalism. One list, one Claude on screen, no tabs. Archiving a session also stops it. Picking a project just starts Claude there. When a feature didn't earn its pixels, it went.

Keyboard first. Start a session, jump between them, rename, archive and review without reaching for the mouse. See Keyboard.

A little whimsy. Archiving throws confetti. Every fifth time, there are stars. Patch lives on the empty screen and has opinions about the weather, your usage limits, late nights and Dutch holidays. Poke Patch and see what happens. Then poke again.

Highlights

Answer Claude's questions properly

When Claude asks you something, the questions open as a proper sheet instead of a menu in Claude's output: number keys to pick, arrows to move between questions, and an "Other" box to write your own answer. Patch keeps count. Press Esc to answer in Claude instead.

See what a session did

⌘G opens Session work for the session on screen: its pull requests, branches, uncommitted worktrees and the issues it touched, each with its CI status. Read the diff unified or split, leave review comments on lines, and hand them back to Claude. Buttons like Ship it, Rebase and Fix CI type the prompt into the session for you. While a session runs, failing CI on its PRs is handed to Claude automatically, at most twice per check.

Start anywhere in three keys

⌘A, type a few letters, Enter. The project picker fuzzy-matches every project you've used Claude in, local or remote. ⌘N starts a quick session in a scratch folder of your choosing.

And also

• Remote projects over SSH. Sessions live in tmux on the other machine, survive a dropped link, and reconnect on their own. A card shows what the connection is doing in the meantime.
• Full-text search across everything you and Claude ever said, not just the titles.
• Usage gauges for your plan's 5-hour and weekly windows, quietly in the corner.
• Keep awake. One click on the zzz keeps your Mac from sleeping while Claude works.
• Light and dark, following your system or pinned. Claude's pane has themes to match: Switchboard, Ghostty, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Dracula, Nord and Solarized.
• Claude, your way. Font, size and line height apply live. Shift+Enter makes a newline, holding Space works for voice input, and dropping a file pastes its path.
• Scheduled tasks. .claude/commands/schedule-*.md files with a cron line run on their own.

Keyboard

Anywhere

Keys	Does
⌘A	New session: open the project picker
⌘N	Quick session in your quick-session folder
⌘⇧[ / ⌘⇧]	Previous / next session (⌘← ⌘→ and ⌘↑ ⌘↓ work too)
⌘L	Move to the session list
⌘G	Open or close Session work
⌘E	Archive the session on screen 🎉
⌘S	Hide or show the sidebar
⌘F	Find in Claude's output

In the session list (after ⌘L)

Keys	Does
↑ ↓ or J K	Move
Enter	Open the session, fold a group, or show older ones
R or F2	Rename
E	Archive (a whole group, on a group header)
A	New session
Esc	Back to Claude

In Session work

Keys	Does
J K	Next / previous item
N P	Next / previous file
U	Unified or split diff
C	Comment on the focused line
Esc	Back to Claude

In Claude's questions

Keys	Does
1–9	Pick an option
↑ ↓	Move between options
← → or Enter	Previous / next question
Space	Toggle an option, when you can pick several
Esc	Answer in Claude instead

Run it

Switchboard is macOS only, and this fork doesn't publish builds, so you build it yourself. You need Node.js 20+ and the Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install).

npm install
npm start              # build and launch
npm run build:mac      # or package a .dmg into dist/

Building, testing and releasing are covered in CONTRIBUTING.md, and how the code is laid out in ARCHITECTURE.md.

Thanks

Switchboard was created by Doctly. Thank you to Ali Basiri and everyone who contributed to the original, which this fork stands on. The flat session list and project picker are adapted from Niek Haarman's fork.