Forked Claude Code sessions that hand tasks to each other across machines - one session drops a task straight into another's chat, no copy-paste.
🔱 Named for Minecraft's Channeling enchant: strike one trident, the bolt lands elsewhere.
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Full guide & internals
- Claude Code v2.1.80+ on each machine (channels are research-preview).
- Tailscale on every machine - trident routes between them over your tailnet (quickstart).
- The binary is self-contained - no runtime to install.
# macOS / Linux / WSL
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csaben/trident/main/install.sh | sh# native Windows PowerShell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/csaben/trident/main/install.ps1 | iextrident host # this machine runs the hub + a session
trident join http://100.x.y.z:8790 # every other machine points at the hubEach launches Claude Code with the channel and --rc, so every session is watchable from claude.ai/code and your phone. First run prompts to register the channel for all sessions and pick your skip-permissions default. Then just say "have the backend session add a /tts endpoint" and trident carries it over.
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
trident host |
Become the hub, enlist tailnet peers, launch a session. |
trident host --no-enlist | --user U | --dry-run |
Skip the picker · set SSH login for peers · print without running. |
trident join [hub] |
Point at a hub (persisted) and launch a session. |
trident join --yes | --skip-perms on|off | --rc on|off |
Non-interactive register · override skip-perms · override --rc. |
trident config show |
Print settings + the exact claude command they resolve to. |
trident config set-hub | host | set-name | skip-perms | rc |
Re-point or re-default without reinstalling. |
$ trident host
hub address for peers: http://100.111.42.8:8790
Online tailnet peers:
[1] cluster (100.a.*) linux
[2] webserver (100.b.*) linux
Enlist which? (e.g. 1,3 or all - blank to skip): 1
→ enlisting cluster (100.a.*)...
✓ cluster enlisted (watch it at claude.ai/code)
trident: launching claude --dangerously-load-development-channels server:trident --rc
Everything else - architecture, config, the WSL Tailscale gotcha, security model, and building from source - is in docs/README.md.
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