Overview

Claude Yard is a native terminal manager for Claude Code. Here’s what it does.

Workspace layout

The app is divided into three areas.

Tool rail — buttons to spawn Claude sessions, shell tabs, or browser panels.

Terminal area — tabbed panels. Each tab is an independent process. Drag to split or rearrange.

Session sidebar — full history of every Claude session, grouped by project. Dots indicate status.

Run multiple Claude instances at once, each working independently.

Click a past session in the sidebar. Claude Yard reopens it with full history.

Native Chromium views alongside your terminals.

One Claude instance can manage others through MCP tools.

Install Claude Yard Download the app and get set up.

Quick start Spawn your first session and learn the basics.