The real Claude Code,
for non-coders too.

ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI opens Claude Code, Anthropic's official AI agent, to non-technical people too. It runs in a terminal built for programmers, and this installer makes it friendly to use: you pick a folder in a simple window, talk in plain English, and watch a live status bar, without typing a single command. Node.js, Git and the whole environment it sets up on its own in the background. Built by Noam Brand.

Kivun Terminal is a free, open-source installer that runs Claude Code with correct right-to-left, bidirectional rendering, so Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and other RTL scripts mixed with English display correctly in the terminal. Under the hood it works through WSL on Windows, and natively on Linux.

Yes, in both ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI and Kivun Terminal. Press Alt+Shift inside the terminal and it cycles through every keyboard language you have set in Windows, in the same Windows order, on the first press. Any languages work, up to four at once, and the list is detected from Windows automatically, so there is nothing to configure.

Claude Code in VS Code runs inside a heavy code editor with a cluttered interface. ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI runs Claude Code in a clean terminal - the way it was built to work. Faster, simpler, no extra layers.

No. The installer handles everything. You just download, run, and start typing. No prior technical experience needed.

Yes. You choose Claude's response language in the installer when you set it up. To switch it later, just run the installer again and pick another language - Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, French, and 20+ more.

Yes. When the folder picker opens, click Advanced options and turn on "continue your last session"; you can also choose your model there. Your choices are saved for next time, so you can set them once and forget, or change them whenever the picker opens. You stay in control of whether a folder starts fresh or picks up exactly where you left off.

The easiest way is right in the folder picker: click Advanced options and pick a Terminal color there. In ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI, Apply now recolors the window immediately; in Kivun Terminal the color applies the next time you launch. Choose the light Kivun blue, a dark, black or white look, keep your own terminal theme, or any custom color; the text color is picked automatically.

Yes. Kivun Terminal runs on WSL2, a small Linux system that can use a lot of RAM. In the folder picker, open Advanced options and set a WSL memory limit (for example 3 GB). It's saved to your .wslconfig and takes effect after WSL fully restarts - close all Kivun windows, or restart your PC. ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI doesn't use WSL, so it doesn't need this. Kivun Terminal v1.6.1 or later.

Good news: it no longer closes on you. When you exit Claude, you land at a normal command prompt in the same window, so you can run an update, a git command, or anything else, then type claude to jump back in with all your settings (language, flags, and the Hebrew fix in Kivun), or type exit to close the window. This works in both ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI and Kivun Terminal.

The installer checks what's already installed and skips what it doesn't need. It also updates Claude Code to the latest version.

Everything is open on GitHub. You can read every line of code, see what the installer does, and contribute improvements. Nothing hidden.

The status bar is two lines at the bottom of the terminal. Line 1 shows your project name, model, context usage (progress bar), total tokens, session duration, and full path. Line 2 shows your session and weekly token usage with progress bars and time until each resets. Everything is color-coded: green below 50%, yellow 50 to 79%, red 80% and up. The session and weekly bars come from Claude's usage limits, so they refresh only when Claude finishes a reply, not on a timer. Between answers the numbers stay put; each value is current as of the most recent response. Total tokens counts the whole session.

Pick ClaudeCode Launchpad CLI if you work in English (or any left-to-right language) or you're on a Mac - it's the lightest, fastest install. Pick Kivun Terminal if you work in Hebrew, Arabic, Persian or another right-to-left language - it renders mixed RTL + English correctly. Both are free and open-source.

Usually not. During the download the bar can sit still for several minutes - that's normal. The install is finished only when it shows "Installation Complete" with a Finish button. If it's genuinely stuck for 15+ minutes, close it, reboot, and run the installer again (right-click → Run as administrator) - it resumes where it left off.

Right-click the installer and choose Run as administrator, then run it again - that's almost always the fix. If "Run as administrator" asks for a password you don't have, it's a locked-down work PC: ask your IT team to run wsl --install once and reboot.

Windows can be cautious the first time you run a new app. If you see "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway. If you see "Smart App Control blocked an app", open Start → Smart App Control → Off, then run it again. The code is open-source and installs only official tools.

In a terminal, copy with Ctrl+Shift+C and paste with Ctrl+Shift+V (or right-click, then Copy or Paste); plain Ctrl+C interrupts the running command instead of copying. In Kivun you can also select the text with your mouse (hold Shift to extend the selection) and right-click to copy.

No, that's normal. The colored words in Claude's replies (bold, headings, code, and file names) are just formatting, not a rendering bug.

This affects some older installs where Claude was placed in a system folder it can't write to, so auto-update keeps failing. Fix it once: type claude to open it, run claude install (the official native installer, no admin needed), then restart Claude. Run /doctor to confirm updates now work. New Kivun installs set this up correctly, and the launcher auto-repairs older installs on the next launch.

The easy way is right in our folder picker: click Advanced options and set your flags there once. They're saved and reused on every launch, so you never have to type them again, and for most people that's all you need. If you want smoother auto-approval, Claude also accepts claude --permission-mode auto. Just avoid --dangerously-skip-permissions; it turns off the safety checks entirely.