I’ve been a research assistant for 4 years and at this point I literally can’t write documents without LaTeX. My usual setup was VSCode + Claude Code + auto compile, which worked great, but I kept missing Overleaf features like history and live preview in my local environment. Then OpenAI dropped Prism, a cloud-based LaTeX workspace. Cool idea, but uploading my unpublished research to OpenAI’s servers? Not for me. And honestly, I’m not a fan of OpenAI’s models these days. As you all know, Claude Code is just too good. So I built ClaudePrism. It’s a desktop app (Tauri + Rust) that runs Claude Code as a local subprocess, and your documents stay on your disk. Completely free and open source - I built this for myself and have zero plans to monetize it. The thing I’m most proud of is how low the barrier is. You don’t need to know LaTeX at all: Guided Setup : upload your assignment PDF and Claude drafts it for you Capture & Ask : select any region in the PDF preview and ask Claude about it - equations, figures, whatever Templates : papers, theses, presentations, posters - pick one and start writing But it’s not just for beginners. If you’re already a LaTeX power user: Offline compilation via Tectonic (no TeX Live needed) Git-based version history 100+ scientific domain skills (bioinformatics, chemoinformatics, ML, etc.) Built-in Python environment (uv) Full Claude Code integration - commands, tools, everything Works on macOS, Windows, and Linux. GitHub: https://github.com/delibae/claude-prism submitted by /u/delibae_
Originally posted by u/delibae_ on r/ClaudeCode