Sidebar

The left pane. Your profiles, teams, and the global controls that apply to everything.

Top bar

A drag bar sits across the top of the window with three controls:

• The ClaudeWorks logo and title returns you home.
• Hard refresh reloads plugins, profiles, and teams from disk. Use it after editing plugin manifests or installed_plugins.json by hand.
• App settings opens the App Settings dialog for theme, font size, and a shortcut to Doctor.

Resizing and density

Drag the right edge of the sidebar to resize between 240px and 480px. Display density switches automatically based on width:

• Below 280px: compact rows with minimal meta.
• 280 to 360px: comfortable, the default.
• Above 360px: wide, with full meta visible and relaxed spacing.

Tab switcher

Three tabs at the top: Home, Profiles, and Teams. Home clears the main pane back to the welcome state. The other two are covered below.

Profiles tab

Every profile you've created, searchable and filterable.

Creating a profile

Click the + button next to the Profiles heading. A new empty profile is created and opened in the editor.

Search, filter, sort

Above the list sit four controls:

• A search input that matches profile names as you type.
• A tag filter to narrow by a specific label. Tags are editable per profile.
• A project filter to narrow to profiles that include a specific imported project.
• A sort dropdown with four options: A–Z, plugin count, most recently launched, and favourites.

Profile cards

Each card shows:

• An icon with the profile's first letter, plus a DEFAULT badge if this profile is set as default, and a health warning if any enabled plugins are broken or missing.
• Meta: plugin count and last-launched timestamp.
• A star to favourite the profile.
• A directory selector for choosing which imported project to launch into. Defaults to "None".
• A Launch button that opens a terminal in the selected directory with this profile's CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR set.

Teams tab

Same structure as Profiles, for multi-agent teams. A persistent experimental banner sits above the list because the underlying Anthropic feature is still flagged behind an environment variable.

• Search, tag filter, project filter, and sort work the same as Profiles. Sort options are A–Z, member count, and favourites.
• Team cards show the team colour, name, member count, and the name of the lead profile.
• The Launch button is disabled until a lead is designated. On click, ClaudeWorks checks for CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1. If it's missing, a gate modal offers to add it to global or project settings before proceeding.

Bottom dock

Two buttons are pinned to the bottom of the sidebar:

• Manage opens the Bulk Manage dialog for editing plugins across many profiles or teams at once.
• Configure Claude opens the main Configure Claude dialog, covering the marketplace, projects, prompts, global settings, status bar, and health.

Unsaved changes guard

If you switch profiles or tabs while the current profile has unsaved changes, ClaudeWorks shows a confirm dialog with three options: Discard & Switch, Save & Switch, and Cancel.