Show HN: I forked JetBrains' new agent IDE to host Claude Code

Category: devtools

Tags: agent-ide, claude-code, plugin-api, mcp, fork, jetbrains

Score: 6.3/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 5)

ThinkRail is a fork of JetBrains' pi coding agent client that turns it into a multi-agent workbench, treating Claude Code as a first-class terminal agent through an IDE bridge, MCP tools, and a plugin API. It ships eight builtin plugins, interactive Blueprint specs, and a stream of upstreamable fixes, making it an interesting reference for agent-IDE integration patterns.

Target audience: backend devs and AI tooling engineers exploring multi-agent IDE integrations

Repository: https://github.com/CommanderTvis/thinkrail · TypeScript · Apache-2.0

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