Show HN: Recalc – Spreadsheet where cells can be Claude Code or Codex terminals
I built this because it was useful for me when building evals/benchmarks, and I decided to put it up for free for others. The goal was quite simple, make it easy to use a lead claude code / codex session in a panel on the side, while allowing every cell to also be a terminal session running claude/codex, and make it possible to continue a session in an actual terminal window if I needed to. They can all talk to each other using cells on the grid, named cells, or the MCP server that effectively g
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2026-11-08 17:45:21.457Z
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Repository: sshah03/recalc. Source account: I built this because it was useful for me when building evals/benchmarks, and I decided to put it up for free for others. The goal was quite simple, make it easy to use a lead claude code / codex session in a panel on the side, while allowing every cell to also be a terminal session running claude/codex, and make it possible to continue a session in an actual terminal window if I needed to. They can all talk to each other using cells on the grid, named cells, or the MCP server that effectively g
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Source votes: 2 votes (Nov 8, 2026 UTC; cumulative since publication) Recent records to compare: “Show HN: My first project, an AI-powered financial news analyzer” (Show HN, Nov 8, 2026); “Show HN: SafeScript, a safe version of JavaScript for executing untrusted code” (Show HN, Nov 8, 2026). Shared themes are navigation hints; they have not been verified as the same need or independent corroboration.
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