A desktop app where you share a folder with Claude. Chat on the left, files on the right. Built on Eclipse Theia with everything a non-coder doesn’t need stripped out. The CLAUDE.md tells Claude to skip the developer jargon.
First commit December 15, 2025. Signed Mac app on New Year’s Eve. Twelve days later, Anthropic released Claude Cowork.
That was the plan. Folio was a provocation more than a product.
Or maybe Claude is just ratatouille-ing all of us into being its hands.