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Cowork with Claude, always visible.

You are pair-coding with Claude, but every time you focus your editor the conversation slides behind it. TopShelf pins Claude (claude.ai) as a floating always-on-top window on macOS, so the reply stays in view no matter what app has focus.

How to do it with TopShelf

  1. 1 Open TopShelf from your menu barClick the TopShelf icon in the macOS menu bar.
  2. 2 Paste the Claude URLPaste https://claude.ai/ into the New Website field.
  3. 3 Pin it always-on-topTopShelf opens Claude in a small floating window above your editor and full-screen apps. Resize it into a corner and start coding.

Also works with

Claude.aiClaude Code (web)ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiCursor chat (web)Any AI chat with a URL

Any AI chat you can open in a browser. TopShelf floats the web page as-is with no plugins, no browser extensions, no API keys required.

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