Claude Overlay
A floating Claude Code chat that sees your screen
205 followers
A floating Claude Code chat that sees your screen
205 followers
Claude Overlay is a frameless, always-on-top chat window for Claude Code that floats over everything you do. Summon it with a hotkey, ask about whatever's on screen, and Claude captures and reads your monitors before answering. It runs the full Claude Code agent on your own subscription - no API key - so it can edit files and run commands, not just chat. Open source (MIT), Windows.
nice, any plan to do that with Codex as well?
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@luca_ardito Not right now — it's built specifically on the Claude Agent SDK, which drives the claude CLI directly (that's how it avoids needing an API key). Making it work with Codex would mean a different driver underneath, so it'd be a real fork rather than a flag. It's MIT-licensed though, so if someone wants to take a crack at a Codex version I'd definitely point people to it
Hi, I have done a similar one for my use around a month ago but never so polished and also put it on the API not cli so was burning tokens. This is really neat! Will check the code but 👏
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@pasha_kleyman Ha, yeah — that's exactly why I built this on the CLI instead of the API. Once I had it driving claude directly it just rides my existing subscription, so I stopped thinking about tokens entirely. Would love to hear what you think once you dig into the code — always curious how other people solved the same screen-context problem.
Always-on-top framing feels really natural when I'm jumping between editor and browser. The fact that it reads my actual screen and runs as a real agent on my plan makes it way more useful than another chat sidebar.
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@pelinokutuaden Thank you — "more useful than another chat sidebar" is exactly the bar I was aiming for. The always-on-top + reads-your-actual-screen + real-agent-on-your-own-plan combo is the whole thesis: not a chat box bolted on the side, but something that's already in the loop while you're bouncing between editor and browser. Really glad it feels that way in practice. If you ever hit a rough edge or want something added, I'm all ears
As a developer whose best friend is snipping tool x Claude code, I can't wait to give this a try!
Jason, the amount of my life lost to flicking between windows is honestly a little embarrassing. Having help sit right there on top of whatever I am staring at feels like it lifts a friction I had stopped noticing. Nice one.
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@xavier_macia Ha, I know that feeling exactly — the alt-tabbing had become so automatic I didn't even register it as friction until I built something that removed it. Glad it landed the same way for you. Thanks for checking it out!
Life saver!