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title: Claude Code
description: Run Anthropic's Claude Code in Glade with your own Claude account. What it needs, how to sign in, and what works.
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Glade runs your installed Claude Code with the Claude account it's signed in to.

| Requirement     | Value                                                                    |
| --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Minimum version | 2.1.267                                                                  |
| Install         | [Claude Code installation](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/installation) |
| Sign in         | `claude`, or **Sign in** in **Settings → Providers**                     |

## Set up

1. **Install Claude Code**

    Follow [Anthropic's guide](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/installation), then check that
    `claude` runs in a fresh terminal.

2. **Sign in**

    Run `claude` and sign in, or use **Sign in** next to Claude in **Settings → Providers**, which
    runs the same sign-in inside Glade.

3. **Pick a model**

    Choose a Claude model in the model picker. Effort, fast mode and thinking appear when the model
    supports them.

## What works

- **Steering:** a message sent mid-turn can redirect the run.
- **Native forks** from any finished reply.
- **Context meter and compaction:** `/compact` and **Compact now** run Claude's own compaction, and
  Claude Code keeps its automatic compaction settings.
- **Approve for me** on models and accounts that support Claude's auto mode.
- **Continue after a usage limit:** Glade picks the chat back up when your limit resets.
- **Skills** from the shared folder, next to Claude's own. Invoke them with `/`.
- **Subagents** Claude starts show up in the chat with their own transcripts.

## Good to know

- Your Claude Code [settings](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings) still apply.
- Glade keeps Claude Artifacts off, so `/design` and `/slides` don't appear and nothing is published to
  claude.ai.
- Deleting a chat in Glade also deletes its Claude session.

## Under the hood

Glade drives Claude Code through the Claude Agent SDK. Shared skills reach it through a small local
plugin that links the original folders, and Glade's tools and your [MCP servers](/features/mcp-servers)
arrive as MCP servers in each session.