I kept hitting the same wall with Claude Code: one long chat doing everything in sequence. New requests queue behind a long job, and changing an instruction means stopping it and starting over.
So I built Clawd HQ, a free, MIT-licensed Claude Code mod. It turns your main chat into a chief of staff that hands work to specialist agents running in the background.
Delegates by default. Clawd hands every job of more than two or three steps to a specialist in the background. Jobs that don't depend on each other run side by side, and you can keep talking to the main chat while three specialists work.
Model and effort sized per job. The specialist doing the hard build can get a strong model; the one checking reports gets a small, fast one.
Specialists don't stall. They never stop mid-run to ask a question. They make their best call, finish the job, and list their assumptions and questions at the end for Clawd.
Steer a running specialist. It uses Claude Code's own agent messaging: Clawd can message any running specialist and it picks the message up at its next step. You can change or add to a brief without restarting the job.
A live office view. Start a session and a pixel-art office opens on its own, showing which specialist is doing what. Type /office-demo for a 90-second tour.
Needs Claude Code v2.1.287 or later.
claude plugin marketplace add vedant-shah/clawd-hq
claude plugin install clawd-hq@clawd-hq
Repo: https://github.com/vedant-shah/clawd-hq
It's free and MIT-licensed. If you try it, I'd genuinely like to hear where it helps and where it gets in the way - issues and stars both welcome.