v0.7 · private beta · windows 11

CONN.

You have the conn.

Conn is an orchestration layer for Claude Code — a Windows desktop app + CLI that gives you persistent terminal sessions, a per-project knowledge graph the agent can query, and a tool registry your playbooks can compose.

Cursor puts the agent inside your editor. Conn puts your editor and agents inside a fleet manager.

1000-linepersistent scrollback

~40%fewer tokens / task

24×faster graph refresh

◉SSN-774 · VIRGINIA◉SSN-788 · COLORADO◉SSN-21 · SEAWOLF◉SSBN-730 · HENRY M. JACKSON◉SSN-23 · JIMMY CARTER◉SSN-798 · MASSACHUSETTS◉SSN-812 · ATLANTA◉SSN-774 · VIRGINIA◉SSN-788 · COLORADO◉SSN-21 · SEAWOLF◉SSBN-730 · HENRY M. JACKSON◉SSN-23 · JIMMY CARTER◉SSN-798 · MASSACHUSETTS◉SSN-812 · ATLANTA

§ 01 · DOCTRINE

The layer above Claude Code, not inside it.

Claude Code is the one tool we will never dilute. Conn adds nothing to the terminal under your cursor. Everything it does — fleet, rules, evals, drift — lives one floor up.

Article 01

You have the conn.

The phrase a submarine captain says when handing the bridge to an officer. Conn is how you hand tasks to a fleet of agents — and how you take the helm back when it matters.

Article 02

Loudly opinionated.

No theme picker for things that shouldn't be themed. One way to lay out a project. One way to register a tool. One shape for a playbook.

Article 03

If Claude already does it well, we don't.

Conn is the layer above: sessions, graph, registry, playbooks, fleet. The work itself is still Claude's.

Run many projects, each with many Claude sessions,
under one set of rules.

§ 02 · BRIDGE

The bridge. One pane. All crew.

Sidebar is your fleet and graph. Main is the terminal under your hand. Right rail shows every session's context window and task. Nothing hidden, nothing modal.

conn · apollo · claude [1]

daemon · on station

claude [1] ×

claude [2] ×

shell [1] ×

$ conn.exe --project ./apollo◉ conn daemon up · 3 PTYs attached · graph fresh────────────────────────────────────────────────▸ sonar scan src/auth  24 files · 4 cycles · blast radius computed in 312ms▸ xo review --since HEAD~3  3 recs · 1 high · 2 medium · typedefs drifted in 2 files▸ crew claude [1] --task "refactor session store"  ◉ claude [1] on station · context 48k/200k · streaming▸ squad deploy hotfix-2601  ⊙ 3 crew dispatched · awaiting conn

▸ Fleet view

Every crew member, visible. Context windows, current task, on-station indicator. No hidden sessions.

▸ Under pressure

PTYs survive reboots, network drops, and window closes. Reattach in <200ms.

▸ Silent running

No telemetry, no sign-in, no cloud round-trip. The daemon runs on your box, under your user.

§ 03 · FLEET

N projects. M crew each. One bridge.

Open every repo you're working on. Spawn as many Claude Code sessions as you need inside each. Switch projects without losing your place; attach crew without losing their context.

▸ F.01

Multi-project fleet

Run N projects at once, each with M Claude Code sessions. One bridge, one crew roster. Jump between apollo, atlas, beacon without losing context.

N×Mprojects × crew

1bridge

0context loss

▸ F.02

Rules, applied everywhere

Your CLAUDE.md, your conventions, your slash-commands — defined once, synchronised across every project. Edit the canon, every crew picks it up.

1-clickpropagation

Versionedrule packs

All crewin sync

▸ F.03

Best-practice packs

Claude Code ships a new pattern? Conn ships the pack. Apply the latest CC conventions to every project with one click — or pin the version you trust.

Weeklypack cadence

Pinnableper project

Rollbackone step

▸ F.04

Documentation review

XO ingests README, CLAUDE.md, arch docs, ADRs. Flags stale sections, missing context, drift from code. Keeps the agent's onboarding sharp.

Autoon save

Freshnessscored

Stalenessflagged

▸ F.05

Run evaluations

Named eval suites per project. Run before a merge, on a schedule, or after a rule change. Regressions land in the fleet rail next to the crew that caused them.

Per-projectsuites

Regressionflagged

Historykept

▸ F.06

Drift detection

Sessions drift — from your rules, from each other, from reality. Conn watches and warns. Re-anchor a session to canon without nuking its context.

Continuousmonitor

Re-anchorin place

Noreset

▸ F.07

Save tokens, not by cutting corners

Graph queries replace re-reads. Shared context replaces duplicate prompts. Rule packs replace copy-paste. ~40% fewer tokens per task — measured, not estimated.

-41%avg / task

Fairmeasurement

Per-projectbudget

▸ F.08

Zero bloat on the terminal

Claude Code stays Claude Code. Conn adds nothing to the pane under your cursor — no inline UI, no side panels, no prompts you didn't write. The magic lives one layer up.

0 bytesinjected

Claude Codeuntouched

Pure PTYalways

§ 04 · CLIs

Claude Code today. Others coming.

Conn is Claude Code-native — that's why the vocabulary works. Codex, Gemini, Aider land next. The tool SDK lets you register your own.

Claude Code

Shipping · v1

▸ now

Codex CLI

Integration

▸ next

Gemini CLI

Integration

▸ next

Aider

Integration

▸ later

Cline (TUI)

Integration

▸ later

Your CLI

Bring your own

▸ SDK

§ 05 · VOCABULARY

Eight verbs. That's the whole API.

The CLI and desktop app speak the same language. Memorize the nouns once.

crew

The fleet of active Claude Code sessions, across all projects. List, attach, detach, rename.

▸ Command roster

conn

Give or take control of a terminal. `conn claude [1]` puts you at the helm.

▸ Handoff

sonar

Scan a path. Returns files, cycles, blast radius, edge counts.

▸ Recon

Executive officer. Reviews recent crew work, flags drift, audits docs.

▸ Review

squad

A named group of crew + playbook. `squad deploy hotfix`.

▸ Dispatch

playbook

A YAML sequence of tools and crew steps, checked into the repo.

▸ Doctrine

canon

Your rule pack — CLAUDE.md, slash commands, conventions. Synced fleet-wide.

▸ Law

eval

A named test case. `eval run login-flow`. History kept per project.

▸ Exam

§ 06 · BRAND

CONN. The period is the mark.

One wordmark. One glowing dot. Sage on navy. No gradients, no secondary palette, no stacking. The terminator is the brand.

CONN

A · PRIMARY · wordmark w/ rings

CONN

B · COMPACT · nav / favicon lockup

C · MARK ONLY · app icon, loading

D · COIN · OS icon, merch

▸ The period is the mark

Every lockup ends in a dot. It's the command pip on a radar, the sight through a periscope, the light on the daemon tray icon. One shape, four roles.

▸ Say it flat, end it hard

Space Mono 700, -0.02em tracking, no italics, no stacking. The wordmark is a sentence fragment: CONN. — the terminator matters.

▸ Only ever in sage

The mark glows. Nothing else does. On dark the dot is sage; on sage the dot is navy. Never amber, never rust — those are status, not brand.

§ 07 · VS

Not an editor. Not a chatbox. A bridge.

Cursor puts the agent inside your editor. Conn puts your editor and agents inside a fleet manager. Different problem, different shape.

Cursor

Claude Code (raw)

Conn

Primary surface

Editor sidebar

CLI + one TUI

Desktop fleet manager

Projects at once

N · fleet view

Sessions per project

1 chat

1 session

M PTYs, persistent

Project knowledge

Prompt-stuffed

Re-read each task

Queryable graph

Rule propagation

Per-repo .cursorrules

Per-repo CLAUDE.md

Fleet-wide, 1 click

CC best-practice packs

—

Manual copy-paste

Versioned, pinnable

Doc freshness

—

Scored, on save

Evals

—

You wire your own

First-class, per-project

Drift detection

—

Continuous

Adds to the terminal

Inline UI

Nothing

Token savings

—

~40% measured

§ 08 · FAQ

Questions we actually get.

No — Conn sits one layer above. Claude Code is the crew. Conn is the bridge. We never add UI to the terminal itself; the one thing that's already great stays pristine.

Claude Code today. Codex CLI and Gemini CLI are next. Aider and Cline are on the map. If you have your own CLI, the tool SDK lets you register it as a crew kind.

You edit one canonical CLAUDE.md (or a named rule pack). Conn syncs it to every project you've opted in. Pin a version per project if you want to lag behind the canon.

A small weekly release that tracks new Claude Code conventions — slash commands, memory patterns, prompt hygiene. You choose which packs to apply. Rollback is one click.

Per-session deviation from your rule pack, plus cross-session divergence on the same codebase. XO flags it; you re-anchor in place without dumping context.

It's measured on our internal eval suite across 20 multi-session tasks. Your mileage will vary by project shape and rule density. Conn shows your actual savings in the budget panel.

No. Each project gets its own graph and PTY pool; they don't cross-talk. The bridge is the only shared surface.

Author runs Windows. macOS and Linux are on the map, small port job on Tauri 2.

▸ Request access

You have the conn.

Private beta. Windows 11. Rolling invites — expect a week or two before your daemon comes up.

Windows 11 · x64~14 MBRequires Claude Code CLI

CONN.

The layer above Claude Code, not inside it.

You have the conn.

Loudly opinionated.

If Claude already does it well, we don't.

Run many projects, each with many Claude sessions,under one set of rules.

The bridge. One pane. All crew.

▸ Fleet view

▸ Under pressure

▸ Silent running

N projects. M crew each. One bridge.

Claude Code today. Others coming.

Eight verbs. That's the whole API.

CONN. The period is the mark.

Not an editor. Not a chatbox. A bridge.

Questions we actually get.

You have the conn.

Run many projects, each with many Claude sessions,
under one set of rules.