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Open Claude UI: REA-informed interface reference components

Publishes React components, motion helpers and design-system notes derived from the author’s reported REA investigation of Claude Desktop. It is useful as an interface-reconstruction case, with version-specific observations rather than proof of a complete assistant application or backend clone.

Targets: App
Category: Community REA investigations
Relationship: Author-reported mixed workflow
Sources reviewed: 2026-10-17

Requirements & limits

Prerequisites: Package 1.0.0 declares React/React DOM 18+, Framer Motion 10+ and lucide-react 0.280+ peer dependencies; its development setup uses TypeScript 5.5 and Framer Motion 11.
Scope: Versioned analysis explicitly targets Claude Desktop v2.37337.1 and reports REA v6.5.0.
Testing evidence: The package exposes build/typecheck and a component preview; production-grade or high-fidelity wording remains the author’s assertion.
Limits: UI component examples do not supply Claude model access, account services or a recovered complete desktop application. Native desktop effects require their own host integration.
License: MIT repository license. The asset policy documents system-font fallbacks and synthesized audio instead of bundled proprietary font/audio files; it does not grant rights in upstream Claude assets or branding.

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README.md GitHub · Caho1/open-claude-ui · Revision ddf3aea
package.json GitHub · Caho1/open-claude-ui · Revision ddf3aea
assets/README.md GitHub · Caho1/open-claude-ui · Revision ddf3aea
docs/v2/README.md GitHub · Caho1/open-claude-ui · Revision ddf3aea
LICENSE GitHub · Caho1/open-claude-ui · Revision ddf3aea

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