⚡ Claude Terminal `v1.2.18`

Facts every project shares - and a first launch that stops fighting you.

The headline

🧠 Global Knowledge

One knowledge base, every project. Write a fact once and every session starts already knowing it, instead of repeating yourself in each project's CLAUDE.md.

🩹 First launch, unblocked

The setup wizard's Back button went nowhere and silently ate a step. Hooks demanded a Node.js install nobody ever mentioned. Both gone.

🌏 Two new languages

Indonesian and Simplified Chinese, both at 100% of 3,316 strings, both contributed by the community.

🛰️ Control Tower at a glance

A grid view with one card per session, and a focus view that opens a session without leaving the panel.

🧠 Knowledge that follows you between projects

Anything you wanted Claude to always know - your stack, your conventions, the name you actually go by - had to be pasted into every project's CLAUDE.md and kept in sync by hand. Global Knowledge holds it in one place instead.

	What it does
Write once	Entries live in `~/.claude-terminal/knowledge/`, one markdown file each, independent of any project
Everywhere by default	A marked block is synced into `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md`, so every session sees your entries without opening anything
Pin & toggle	Pin what matters, disable an entry without deleting it, keep drafts around
Searchable	Full-text search across every entry
Claude can edit it	Five MCP tools - `knowledge_list`, `knowledge_get`, `knowledge_search`, `knowledge_write`, `knowledge_delete` - so Claude can record a fact when you tell it to remember something
Preview before sync	See exactly what gets written into your global `CLAUDE.md` before it lands

Edit it from Memory → Global Knowledge, next to your existing CLAUDE.md editors.

Everything else

Control Tower grid view - one card per active session, filter by project and status, search by name, and a focus view with a filmstrip of the project's other sessions
Tab menu: close every tab, or every tab to the left of the one you clicked
Indonesian (id) and Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) join French, English and Spanish - including the project-type panels, the mobile remote and the setup wizard

Setup wizard, Back button: it blanked the page and left the step counter frozen, so the next click on Next skipped the very step you were trying to return to - with no way back, that step could never be filled in
Hooks no longer need Node.js: the hook system shelled out to node, so a machine without it drowned every Claude action in errors, and nothing warned you. Electron already ships Node, so hooks now fall back to the copy inside the app. This also covers a quieter case: an app launched from Finder on macOS doesn't inherit your shell's PATH, so an nvm or Homebrew install was often invisible even though node -v worked in a terminal
Terminal clipboard (OSC 52): programs running inside the terminal can finally copy to your system clipboard
Image paste on macOS and Linux: the wrong key was being sent to the CLI on those platforms

Language detection now resolves full BCP 47 tags before falling back to the bare primary subtag, so region-specific locales like zh-CN can auto-detect and a future zh-TW can coexist with it rather than collapsing onto a generic zh
Locale files are now shipped by the renderer build for every registered language - a locale missing from that list used to appear in the picker, save fine, and silently render English

🙏 Thanks


@rezadesky	Indonesian translation (#73)
@tianxing226	Simplified Chinese translation (#74, #77)
@lassevk	Three precise bug reports in one morning (#75, #76)

📜 Full changelog — 17 commits

feat(knowledge)       add global knowledge base shared across every project
feat(memory)          add a Global Knowledge section to the memory panel
feat(i18n)            add global knowledge translations for all locales
feat(i18n)            add Simplified Chinese translation (zh-CN)
feat(i18n)            add Indonesian translation (id)
feat(i18n)            complete Indonesian coverage across project types, PWA and wizard
feat(i18n)            resolve regional language tags before the primary subtag
feat(control-tower)   grid view with per-session cards and in-panel focus view
feat(tabs)            add close to left and close all menu options
fix(hooks)            stop requiring an external node install
fix(setup-wizard)     restore backward navigation between steps
fix(terminal)         implement OSC 52 so in-terminal apps can copy to the clipboard
fix(terminal)         send the CLI's platform image-paste key on macOS and Linux
fix(i18n)             ship the Indonesian locale in the renderer build
test(knowledge)       cover entry storage and CLAUDE.md injection
docs                  document the global knowledge base
chore(release)        bump version to 1.2.18

Note

macOS users: if the app is reported as damaged on first launch, it is unsigned rather than broken. Run xattr -cr "/Applications/Claude Terminal.app", or right-click the app and choose Open.

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⚡ Claude Terminal v1.2.18