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Hydra — Development skill for Claude Code

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Optimized IDE for agentic coding, primarily Claude Code and Codex.

How to install Hydra

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ndunl075/hydra and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Hydra does

Optimized IDE for agentic coding, primarily Claude Code and Codex.

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README

Hydra

A Windows-first standalone IDE for switching between ordinary editing and an agent manager. Hydra's own editor is built from pinned Code - OSS source with Hydra branding and separate user data; the agent workflow is a built-in module. The Windows installer and first-run onboarding are still in development. The product and acceptance gates are in [the project spec](docs/Agent_Manager_Project_Spec.md), [standalone build guide](docs/Standalone_Build.md), and [desktop delivery requirements](docs/Desktop_Delivery.md).

The 0.18.0 candidate adds a shared reservation limit for managed sessions, provider terminals and setup writers across participating windows in one local profile. Defaults remain two; uncertain writers retain their slots until explicit recovery. See [profile capacity](docs/Profile_Capacity.md) for the boundary and acceptance gates.

Standalone editor build

The target application is **Hydra.exe**. VS Code is a development test host, not a runtime dependency of the bundled IDE. Native Windows x64 builds require the pinned Node/toolchain prerequisites described in the [build guide](docs/Standalone_Build.md).

Fresh Hydra profiles default to Hydra Dark without following the system light theme; an explicit saved or imported appearance choice still wins. Light mode remains available in Settings. The empty editor displays a subtle, one-color version of the tightly cropped README Hydra logo, with the full mark intact and minimal outer padding. It uses a transparent background and follows dark, light, and high-contrast themes.

npm.cmd ci
npm.cmd run desktop:build
npm.cmd run desktop:verify
npm.cmd run desktop:smoke

The build lives in `.desktop/VSCode-win32-x64/`. The Windows CI job builds the same standalone app and runs the existing acceptance suite against its built-in Hydra module, using a separate empty test harness. A sou