The New Claude Code Desktop App Just Dropped, And it Kills Cursor

Description: Anthropic’s major update to the Claude Code desktop app reworks the interface into an agentic workspace for coding and knowledge work. It adds project folders, routines, live previews, terminal integration, skills/connectors, and modular panes to manage agents, context, and outputs—enabling scheduled automation, multi-repo workflows, and local or cloud development previews.

Main ideas:
– Project organization: folders and sessions let you group agent activity, link local or GitHub repos, and manage branches and pull requests from a unified UI.
– Automation & routines: schedule recurring tasks (daily code reviews, content pipelines) that run agents against project context on a set frequency.
– Live development: integrated preview, terminal, and dev-server orchestration let agents start and observe local dev environments and preview site changes.
– Agentic workflow model: the interface emphasizes three components—context (files), agents (models + tools/skills), and outputs (files, actions)—as the core pattern for AI-driven work.

Quotes:

This update shows the way 99% of us are going to be working with AI agents in the future.

Routines let you schedule daily code reviews so you can come back to work that’s already been reviewed.

Context, agents, and outputs — the system of work everyone is building the interface around right now.