Anthropic quietly added a feature in the Claude Code desktop app that most people don't know about. Now you do. Split panes indefinitely with a simple drag and drop. 🔥

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My brother is so codexy that he’s finding features Claude added months ago 😅. Also, their desktop app is so crap. You won’t stay there more than an hour once you’ve experienced the Codex app.

I didn't say I just found out about it. Most people I know don't know about it though that's why I'm sharing it. I've known about it since the first day it came out 🫡

Fair.. 🙌

wait this is actually nice

This one is a lot better:

It's a great feature indeed. has it also, but with a complex algorithm to ensure you never end up with those "teeny-tiny" panes that plague a lot of tiling WMs.

Welcome to Tmux 🙂

No thank you

Someone has been watching @NousResearch @Teknium

@NousResearch @Teknium This has been out for a couple months

codex has this or not?

No sadly

@amorriscode ?? this was added months ago, and i’m 99% sure it was a typical feature rollout with a video and all.

@amorriscode um just affirming that it wasn’t a quiet feature and was a typical rollout??

@amorriscode oh really? find me the post then from the @AnthropicAI or @ClaudeDevs account, since it wasn't quiet. i'll wait.

@amorriscode @AnthropicAI @ClaudeDevs let me save you some time, this came out june 26th, about 6 weeks ago.

@amorriscode @AnthropicAI @ClaudeDevs ok

@amorriscode @AnthropicAI @ClaudeDevs Yeah you resort to insults because your argument is completely invalid. Otherwise you'd be posting the proof. Oops 🤫

@amorriscode @AnthropicAI @ClaudeDevs

wait we need this @ajambrosino

can we have those features on Codex and Chatgpt work as well? @thsottiaux @gdb @sama

Split panes turn the desktop app into an actual multi agent workspace instead of a single chat.

Nice, but I still prefer tiling window managers for true multitasking. Dragging feels slower than keyboard shortcuts.

I think there might be a shortcut. I swear there's another way

I found codex’s pop up window to be the better UX tho

Anthropic has that as well by the way that's a totally different type of feature

Guess I am saying it because I haven’t found a use case to split/stack so many small chat windows.

This is the kind of feature that quietly changes how you actually work with Claude Code.

This has been my go to for the last month or so.

Split panes with just drag and drop, didn't know that.

C'est top en tout Ça

Didn't know that one, trying it tonight. Feels like half the good Claude Code features never make the release notes.

Honestly it's pretty easy to miss with the inflow of information

Excuse me wtf Why did I not know this

wait you can just keep splitting them? 😭

This feature has been there forever...

good feature

still shocked how long it took them to ship something this basic

Infinite split panes solve visibility and can create a new failure: nobody knows which pane owns the task. I would name each pane by repo, branch and objective, then show the last write and test result in its header. More parallel work is only helpful when a stale pane cannot quietly ship.

This must be for people that don’t know what is a tiling window manager.

I use tilers but this is far cleaner

It’s not cleaner if you have to use your mouse.

It is in my opinion because then you would need to have a bunch of different claude windows open which is problematic

Also how exactly would you select the exact chat that you want without your mouse?

I use i3wm on Linux, named workspaces (up to 10) for each session (usually 2-3 panels each, for implementation/design/review), vim style hotkeys to move between the windows, exact hotkeys to jump right to each workspace.

And u call that cleaner than dragging the mouse for . 2 seconds. BLASPHEMY 😂 To each his own. Haha But I genuinely don't want to run more than one instance per account. That's too much for me I do love tilers though. With 57" they are necessary

Did not know about the split panes, trying that.

Nice hidden gem. Drag and drop tiling makes it feel more like a real IDE rather than a single chat window. Keep the workspace tiled, keep the context alive

Wait, people use the desktop app for Claude Code?

Yeah I actually prefer it cuz you can context which much easier

You gotta try herdr if you haven’t already!

i'll check it out thanks!

That's pretty slick

This is a cool feature

Bro whaaaaat. The absolute hell I went through to build my own UI just to do the same thing I would not wish on another soul LMAO.

Lmao

this has been there fr a while now

Yes I know but just watch this thread you'll see how many people don't actually know

That is true!! indeed

They are learning from the best

@theo t3 code needs this :P