start-claude

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A powerful CLI tool to manage and start Claude Code with different configurations. Easily manage multiple Claude configurations, sync them across devices with S3, and switch between them with a beautiful, interactive interface.

Features

• 🚀 Easy Configuration Management: Add, edit, remove, and list Claude configurations
• 🔧 Environment Variable Support: Full support for all 35+ Claude Code environment variables
• ⚡ CLI Overrides: Override API key, model, base URL, and set custom environment variables directly from command line
• 📦 Auto-Install: Automatically detect and install Claude Code CLI if missing
• ☁️ S3 Sync: Smart sync across devices with conflict detection and modification time tracking
• 🎨 Modern Web Interface: Beautiful, responsive configuration manager with real-time search and drag-and-drop
• ⚖️ Advanced Load Balancer: Intelligent load balancing with health monitoring, automatic failover, and configurable settings
• 🔄 Transformer Support: Convert between different AI API formats (OpenAI, custom providers)
• 💻 Command Override: Windows-compatible shell aliases with dual script + alias approach
• 🌐 Multi-Provider Support: Mix and match different AI providers in load balancing

Quick Start

🚀 No setup required! Start using immediately:

# Install globally
npm install -g start-claude
# or
pnpm add -g start-claude

# Start Claude Code directly with CLI overrides (no config needed)
start-claude --api-key sk-your-key --model claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

# Use the short command alias
scc --api-key sk-your-key --model claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929

# Windows users: Enable override for better compatibility
start-claude override

# For persistent configurations, add one interactively
start-claude add

# Open the modern web interface
start-claude manager

Documentation

| 📖 English Documentation | | --------------------------------------------------- | | Installation Guide | | Quick Start Guide | | Configuration Guide | | CLI Reference | | Web Manager Guide | | Transformer Guide | | Load Balancer Guide | | S3 Sync Guide | | Development Guide |

Basic Usage

# Basic commands
start-claude                    # Start with default config
start-claude <config>           # Start with specific config
start-claude list              # List all configurations
start-claude add               # Add new configuration
start-claude edit <name>       # Edit configuration

# Modern Web Interface
start-claude manager          # Open web-based configuration manager

# Advanced Load Balancer with Health Monitoring
start-claude --balance         # Start with system default balance settings
start-claude --balance --verbose  # Enable detailed health check logging

# CLI overrides (no config needed)
start-claude --api-key sk-key --model claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929
start-claude -e DEBUG=1 -e NODE_ENV=prod --verbose

# S3 Sync with Smart Conflict Detection
start-claude s3 setup          # Configure S3 sync with timestamp tracking
start-claude s3 sync           # Smart sync with conflict resolution
start-claude s3 upload --force # Force upload (ignore timestamp warnings)
start-claude s3 download       # Download with timestamp comparison

# Override original claude-code command
start-claude override         # Enable claude command override
start-claude override disable # Disable override
start-claude override status  # Check override status
start-claude override shells  # Show supported shells

Modern Web Interface

Start Claude now includes a beautiful, modern web interface for configuration management:

• 🎨 Modern Design: Clean, gradient-based UI with dark mode support
• 🔍 Real-time Search: Instantly filter configurations
• 📱 Drag & Drop: Reorder configurations with visual feedback
• ⚙️ System Settings: Centralized balance mode and S3 sync preferences
• ✅ Smart Validation: Real-time validation with detailed error messages
• 🌓 Dark Mode: Automatic system theme detection

# Launch the web interface
start-claude manager
# Opens at http://localhost:3000 with your configurations

Advanced Load Balancer

Enhanced load balancing with intelligent health monitoring:

• 🏥 Health Monitoring: Configurable health check intervals
• 🚫 Smart Failover: Automatic endpoint banning with recovery
• ⚙️ System Integration: Configurable via web interface or system settings
• 📊 Detailed Logging: Comprehensive health check and failover logs

Balance Mode Settings

Configure via web interface (start-claude manager) or system settings:

• Enable by Default: Automatically start in balance mode
• Health Check Interval: Customize monitoring frequency (10s - 5min)
• Failed Endpoint Handling: Auto-ban duration (1min - 1hour)
• Disable Health Checks: Use simple round-robin with endpoint banning start-claude -e DEBUG=1 -e NODE_ENV=prod --verbose

Short alias

scc --api-key sk-key --model claude-3-haik

Editor Mode

Editing configuration in your prefer editor.

# Supported editors: VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Notepad, etc.
start-claude add -e             # Create config in editor
start-claude edit myconfig -e   # Edit config in editor
start-claude edit-config        # Edit config file directly with live reload

Claude Code Documentation

For complete information about Claude Code CLI:

📖 Claude Code Documentation

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See our Development Guide for details on:

• Setting up the development environment
• Running tests
• Code style guidelines
• Submission process

License

MIT License

Credits

This project integrates and builds upon several excellent open source tools:

• llms - Claude Code Router Core Service
• ccusage - Comprehensive Claude Code usage analytics and cost tracking
• ccstatusline - Real-time Claude Code status line integration for shells and editors