Honest comparison

Plain Claude Code vs
Claude Code inside codehere.

Not a rival — codehere runsClaude Code. The comparison is about where the work lives afterwards: a terminal session that vanishes, or a local project room that doesn't.

01

When the session ends

Claude Code alone

The session lives in your terminal. Close the tab, restart, or log out at the wrong moment and the in-progress work is gone — /resume only reaches your most recent sessions.

Inside codehere

Every run in a real project folder lands in a local room that outlives the tab, the terminal, and the daemon. Reopen the room days later — the full thread is there, in order.

02

Starting the next session

Claude Code alone

A fresh session starts from zero unless you hand-roll continuity: CLAUDE.md notes, TODO breadcrumbs, re-explaining the project state in your first prompt.

Inside codehere

Once the project is initialized (codehere init, or an existing AGENTS.md), the room re-feeds project memory at spawn — the agent reads what the last run did before it starts. The next task continues the project instead of rediscovering it.

03

Using more than one agent

Claude Code alone

Claude Code's history is Claude Code's. Hand the work to Codex or Aider and you start over — different tool, different (or no) history, context in your head.

Inside codehere

One goal, one room, any of five agents (Claude Code, Codex, Aider, OpenCode, Gemini) taking turns. Each turn shares the same thread and the same project memory.

04

Knowing what actually happened

Claude Code alone

Terminal scrollback. If you weren't watching, you're trusting the summary the agent wrote about itself.

Inside codehere

Every tool step recorded, every file change listed, a hash-chained local audit you can verify, and a Final Report that's checked against what actually shipped.

When plain Claude Code is the better choice

Sometimes you don't need a room.

  • One-shot work.If you never return to a session — quick fixes, throwaway scripts — persistence is overhead you don't need. Plain Claude Code is leaner.
  • Day-one features. New Claude Code capabilities land natively first. codehere tracks the CLI surface, but an orchestration layer is always one step behind the tool it runs.
  • No extra moving parts. codehere adds a local daemon and a web UI — one more thing running. If that bothers you, skip it.
  • It's early.codehere is v0.8, invite-only while we onboard the first developers. Claude Code is a mature product. We'd rather you know that going in.

Keep your agent. Give the work a home.

Local-first, open source, your keys. Invite-only while it's early — request one and we'll set you up.

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