nikolas.sapa
April 19, 2026building

Branch AI

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What it is

Branch AI wraps the Claude Code CLI and captures extended thinking as a live, navigable tree. Every reasoning step becomes a node. You can fork at any point, inject new context mid-thought, and diff runs side by side.

The problem it solves: Claude's extended thinking is powerful but opaque. You get a wall of reasoning you can't interact with. Branch makes it a structure you can explore, share, and collaborate on.

Why it exists

AI teams burn hours on opaque model failures. Branch turns reasoning into something inspectable — not a black box you hope produced the right answer, but a tree you can walk through, branch from, and understand.

Current status

Live on npm at branch-ai. v0.7.3. 500+ downloads since launch on April 24th. Started as my entry for the Anthropic Built with Opus 4.7 hackathon ($100k credits prize).

Stack

TypeScript, Claude Code SDK, Node.js.