GitButler's Claude Code tab

More tightly integrating coding agents and version control is important to us.

We recently shipped a way to take advantage of Claude Code's hooks to enable the agent to automatically commit for you, including writing the commit message, even across multiple simultaneous branch contexts.

However, it got us to thinking how nice it would be if we had more control and context so we could make the whole process easier and more intuitive. This led us to start working on a new tab for GitButler where you could simply run Claude Code sessions directly in our client.

The Agents Tab

This new Agents Tab allows you to easily launch Claude Code sessions that are tied to branches of your project, automatically committing the results of finished tasks to that branch.

This makes it easy to quickly launch an agent to do a specific task on the branch you've been working on, or start a new branch to have it work on some new topic while you're still working on your current one. You can even have multiple agents working on multiple parallel branches simultaneously.

It will also do all of this in the same working directory, making it unneccesary to run setup scripts or configure worktrees for each task.

The Coolest Way to Run Claude Code

While the branch context based sessions and auto-committing are cool, after using it for a few weeks I feel like I can also confidently say that running Claude Code in GitButler is just a nicer experience than running it in the terminal.

• We break out the Todo list and changed files into a sidebar for a quick overview.
• We show the token usage and estimated cost per branch as it's running.
• Our auto-commit messages use your prompts for proper context, rather than just what the code changes were.
• We fold the tool calls so you can concentrate on the conversation and unfold if you're interested in the details.

Most importantly, we have an entire interface for seeing the code diffs and jumping to those points in your editor of choice. I find this mode of usage much more fluid and easy to understand than agent integration in an editor.

This also gives us a basis for building even cooler stuff to help with using coding agents. For example, we've built in "prompt templates" that allow you to use a pre-written template to start crafting your prompt:

Try it now

If you're a Claude Code user, try out our new Agents Tab for a much nicer experience in using Claude Code, but also in orchestrating your agents and crafting great commits for your peers. All you need to do is download the latest release of the GitButler client.