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Crydeck — Development skill for Claude Code

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Lightweight Windows desktop shell for Claude Code: session tabs, live file tree with unread marks, usable app preview.

How to install Crydeck

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open crymetr/crydeck and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Crydeck does

Lightweight Windows desktop shell for Claude Code: session tabs, live file tree with unread marks, usable app preview.

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README

CryDeck

A lightweight Windows desktop shell for [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code). Tabs of Claude sessions, a live file tree, and a preview pane where you can actually use what Claude builds.

Not an IDE. No editor, no LSP, no debugger, no extension host. Claude does the writing; CryDeck is where you watch, steer, and try the result. That omission is the entire reason it stays light (~250MB working set, single small binary).

![CryDeck: Claude editing a project on the left, the resulting app running live in the preview pane](docs/screenshot.png)

┌─ tabs: one Claude Code session per tab, each its own folder ────────┐
├──────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────┤
│ file tree    │ terminal (Claude Code TUI)   │ preview              │
│ live, unread │ real PTY via ConPTY          │ File | App | Feed    │
│ marks        │ pwsh 7 + predictions         │ live localhost apps  │
├──────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────┤
│ status: model | effort | context % | 5h/weekly limits | cost       │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Getting started (never used a terminal before? start here)

Download CryDeck_x64-setup.exe from the latest release and run it. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher — choose "More info" → "Run anyway".
First launch. CryDeck checks your machine. If Git or Claude Code are missing it offers to install them — click Install and watch it happen in a terminal tab (approve the Windows permission popup if one appears). The tab flows straight into Claude Code's login: you need a Claude account with a Pro or Max plan (https://claude.ai). Already have everything installed? You'll never see any of this.
Make a projects folder. Anywhere you like, e.g. C:\Projects, with one subfolder per project (C:\Projects\my-first-app)