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Short, honest answers to the questions people ask most. If yours isn't here, the Troubleshooting page covers common problems, and you can always ask in the project's discussions.
No. GRU953-Studio is built for people who don't code. You describe what you want in plain English, answer a few simple multiple-choice questions, approve a mock-up, and it does the technical work — designing, writing the code, adding real content, testing it, and publishing it when you say so. You never edit code or manage any of the specialist roles behind the scenes.
Yes. GRU953-Studio is a plugin (a small add-on) for Claude Code — Anthropic's coding assistant. It does not run in Claude Desktop, and it can't run on its own. If you don't use Claude Code, this isn't the tool for you yet.
The good news is it works in both places Claude Code lives: the Claude Code desktop app and Claude Code on the web. See Installation for the one-time setup.
No. GRU953-Studio is an independent, unofficial plugin. It is not made or endorsed by Anthropic (the makers of Claude) or Google (the makers of Gemini). It runs on Claude Code and can optionally use Google Gemini, but it is a separate community project.
It's free for personal and other non-commercial use (no cost) — including use by charities, schools, and public bodies. Commercial use needs a separate paid licence.
In practice: if you're building something for yourself, to learn, or for a non-profit purpose, you can use it at no cost. If you're building something to make money, you need a commercial licence first.
You can read the plain-terms details on the Sponsorship page, and the full commercial terms in COMMERCIAL-LICENCE.md.
A note on GitHub's licence label: GitHub shows the licence as "Other". That's because GRU953-Studio uses the PolyForm Noncommercial licence, which isn't in GitHub's list of detectable licences. It's a display limitation on GitHub's side, not a fault or a hidden catch.
Selling a finished app, or using GRU953-Studio for any commercial purpose, needs a commercial licence. It's straightforward to arrange — the terms are set out in COMMERCIAL-LICENCE.md, and the Sponsorship page explains the options. If you're only building for yourself or for a non-commercial purpose, you don't need one.
It can build for all the main platforms people actually use:
| Platform | Examples |
|---|---|
| Android | phone and tablet apps |
| iPhone and iPad | iOS apps |
| Mac | macOS apps |
| Windows | desktop apps |
| Linux | desktop apps and tools |
| Web | websites and web apps that open in a browser |
You tell it which platform you want, and it uses the right specialist for that platform behind the scenes.
It's designed for small, genuinely useful, self-contained apps — a personal tracker, a simple website, a small tool that does one job well, a page that organises information, or a little utility for your phone or computer.
It is not for very large, complex systems (like a full banking platform or a social network for millions of people). It deliberately builds the smallest version that actually works, then you can grow it later, in stages. If your idea is bigger than it should take on in one go, it will tell you honestly, in plain English. The Sample use cases page shows the real range.
Yes, by design. Your project is saved locally on your own computer as you go. When it comes to sharing, publishing is private by default: your work is published to your own GitHub account privately, and making anything public is a separate step that only happens if you explicitly ask for it.
Two things are worth being clear and honest about:
- The built-in safety checks protect against honest mistakes — they reliably stop accidental early publishing and obvious leaked passwords. They are a careful safety net for normal, honest use, not protection against someone deliberately trying to trick their own setup.
- Full technical detail is documented openly in SECURITY.md — nothing is hidden.
If you'd like to keep your work backed up as you go, that's supported too, and it stays private.
Yes, on both counts. GRU953-Studio works through Claude Code, which is an AI tool, so it needs an internet connection, and your Claude account has usage limits.
On a long build you may reach your Claude usage cap for the day. That's completely fine and expected — the studio saves your progress, and you simply continue later from where you stopped. Nothing is lost.
You can stop at any point and pick up exactly where you left off — in the same session, or a brand-new one days later.
- Tell it to pause — say "pause this", or use the
/studio-pausecommand. - Close your laptop and go and do something else. Your progress is saved.
- When you're ready, open Claude Code again in the same project folder.
- Resume — say you want to carry on, or use the
/studio-resumecommand.
A plain dashboard shows exactly what's done, what's next, and what's waiting on you. You can also come back to a project you've already published — just describe the change you want (for example, "add a way to search my recipe app by ingredient") and it picks up safely rather than starting over.
Ollama is a free tool (no cost) that runs AI models on your own computer, with no cloud needed. GRU953-Studio can use it in two optional ways: as an alternative AI "engine" for an app it builds for you, and as a free, private local second opinion any of its roles can ask for. Claude stays the default. It always asks before installing Ollama or downloading a model, every time, and it isn't available in web sessions (it switches itself off with a note there).
The full step-by-step guide is on the Connecting Ollama page.
Google Gemini is used for one thing only: generating images, audio, and video, when you want them. Written text is always produced by Claude, never Gemini.
Gemini is entirely optional and off unless you turn it on. It uses your own Google API key (a secret code that lets the studio use your Google account), which is never stored, saved to a file, or shared. Before generating anything it always shows you a cost estimate and a plain reminder that the content is sent to Google. If you don't set it up, the studio simply gives you a step-by-step guide to add media yourself.
The full step-by-step guide is on the Connecting Gemini page.
- For common problems and their fixes, see Troubleshooting.
- For how to set it up, see Installation.
- To learn what's inside, see Features, Skills and capabilities, and The team.
- For anything else, open a thread in the project's discussions or read the README.
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Free for personal and non-commercial use under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0. Commercial use needs a separate licence. GRU953-Studio is an independent, unofficial plugin, not affiliated with Anthropic or Google.
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