Roost: A Single-Go-Binary Sidebar for Claude Code with Clickable Prompt History, File Tree, and Notifications
A developer built Roost to address three gaps when using Claude Code over SSH via tmux: clickable prompt history, a file tree to reduce cat-ing files, and push notifications when Claude is waiting. It's a single Go binary serving a web interface on 127.0.0.1:8080 designed for SSH tunnelling.
Key Features
- xterm.js terminal backed by tmux: Survives WebSocket disconnects, sleep, and server restarts. Every session is
tmux new-session -A -s {id}. - File tree: Preview files, drag-drop upload, and automatically follows your current directory by reading tmux's
pane_current_path— no shell integration required. - Activity panel: Reads
~/.claude/projects/*.jsonland shows every prompt. Click a prompt → terminal scrolls back to that turn. - Top-bar chips: Display active model and latest context tokens.
- Push notifications: Uses Claude Code's
Stophook to ping your laptop when Claude becomes idle, even with the tab backgrounded.
Design Decisions
- tmux as durability layer: The shell survives disconnects and restarts because tmux handles session persistence. Roost only owns a WebSocket bridge and an append-only disk log.
- Single-user-per-instance: No accounts or RBAC. Two people sharing a host each run
roost serveon a different port. UNIX UIDs handle isolation; reverse-proxies handle multi-tenant auth. - Vanilla JS, no build step: Frontend is plain
<script>files embedded via//go:embed all:web. No bundler — easier to debug and ship.
Notable Bug Fix
tmux's display-message -p '#{x}\x1f#{y}' returns 0x1f as a literal underscore when launched without a UTF-8 locale (e.g., from systemd units). The one-line fix: tmux -u. If you pipe tmux through field separators, lock the locale.
Compatibility
Validated on Linux server + Windows Chrome over SSH tunnel. macOS-as-server works but has rough edges. Codex sessions work if you swap agents. Repo: github.com/liamsysmind/roost. v0.1.0 tarballs at github.com/liamsysmind/roost/releases/tag/v0.1.0.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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