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Claude tool landscape · Question 18

Are you running Claude locally? What is the interface shown?

The model runs on Anthropic's infrastructure. What sits locally is the client (desktop app or CLI) moving prompts, file excerpts, and results back and forth.

The Lightning Lesson demo leaned on the desktop app—chat UI with real filesystem access—rather than the raw terminal Claude Code view. Same family of capabilities, different chrome.