Loopyard vs Claude Code Desktop

Claude Code Desktop is Anthropic’s native app for macOS, Linux, and Windows. Same agent as the CLI, same local execution model, in an app: install, sign in, run sessions side by side. Claude Code also runs on the web and on mobile through claude.ai, with sessions that can hand off between surfaces.

What Desktop does

• The official native interface, maintained by the Claude Code team.
• Runs sessions on your machine against your local checkouts.
• Multiple sessions side by side, plus the web and mobile surfaces for work that follows you off the laptop.

What Loopyard does differently

• Agents work in containers, not on your host. Each project gets its own Docker stack the agent builds itself: Dockerfile, services, dev server. You can run the agent at full autonomy without exposing your machine, and the environment is reproducible on someone else’s.
• Multiplayer. Sessions are URLs. A teammate can watch, type, and answer agent questions in the same session at the same time.
• A self-hosted server. Loopyard runs as an always-on server your team reaches over the network, with an operator agent watching every workspace. Your code and keys stay on hardware you run.

Which should you pick?

If you want the official, lowest-friction way to run Claude Code on your own machine, use Desktop. Pick Loopyard when you want agents working in containers instead of on your host, environments they build and you can discard, and sessions your team shares live.