| title | Desktop feature map |
|---|---|
| nav_title | Feature map |
| description | Everything the desktop app can do, on one screen, with a link to each page. |
| order | 0 |
The desktop app puts "talking to Claude" and "seeing what it actually changed" in the same window: projects and history on the left, the conversation in the middle, files, diffs, and a browser preview one click away on the right.
This page is a map, not a manual. One line per feature — click through for the details. If you haven't installed it or connected a model yet, start with Get started.
- Sidebar — under the brand seal: New session, Scheduled, Skills Market. Below that, the search bar and your projects and past sessions. Settings sits at the bottom. Drag the edge to resize it.
- Tab bar — sessions side by side, switched like browser tabs. The four buttons on the right are Activity, Open project, Open terminal, and Show/hide workspace.
- Composer toolbar — left to right: attachments, permission mode, launch location, context usage ring, model and effort, and the run button.
- Sessions, permissions, and review — starting a session, reading tool cards, answering permission prompts, undoing a turn that went wrong.
- Workspace — the right-hand panel: changed files, diff review, line comments, isolated worktrees, built-in browser.
- Settings reference — all 16 tabs, one paragraph each: themes, languages, proxy, terminal, MCP, token usage.
- Subagents — when to delegate, which agents ship built in, how to write your own.
- Skills and the Skills Market — what a skill is, how it differs from an agent, what to check before installing one.
- Scheduled tasks — have Claude review yesterday's commits every morning.
- Computer Use — let it read the screen, move the mouse, and type into other apps.
- Phone (H5) and IM — scan a QR code to continue the same session in your phone's browser, or chat from WeChat, Feishu, or Telegram.
- IM integrations — full setup steps for each of the five platforms.
- Desktop pet — a little robot that floats on your desktop and shows you how the current task is going. Off by default.
The pages above cover usage. For architecture and source, start at the architecture overview; the desktop process boundaries are in Desktop Architecture.