Launches Claude Code as a live companion on your Tuple call when transcription starts.

When call-transcription-started fires, this trigger opens your preferred terminal running Claude inside the call's transcription directory. Claude catches up on everything said so far, then watches the live transcript and acts as a sharp third pair on the call.

What it does

• Logs the call live. On every batch of new transcript, Claude leaves a one-line · play-by-play so you can follow along at a glance.
• Chimes in when it matters. It escalates from a log line to a real interjection for a bug it can see, an ambiguous decision or action item, a correction, or a direct question.
• Answers when addressed. Say "Claude, ..." (or type into the terminal) and it responds to that turn, then keeps listening.
• Summarizes. It writes a checkpoint summary when recording stops and a final summary (decisions, action items, open threads) when the call ends.

Claude follows the call with Tuple's bundled watcher (tuple-call-watcher.py), shipped with this trigger and run verbatim: a fixed, deterministic script rather than a poll loop the model re-authors each session. Claude runs it once via Bash --catchup to read the backlog, then Monitors a continuous run for live updates. It launches with claude --allowed-tools Read Bash Monitor --name "Tuple Claude Sidekick".

Choosing your terminal

By default the trigger opens the first installed of Ghostty → iTerm → Alacritty → Terminal. To force one, set PREFERRED_TERM at the top of call-transcription-started (or in the environment):

PREFERRED_TERM="iterm"   # ghostty | iterm | alacritty | terminal

The terminal runs launch-claude-sidekick.command, whose #!/bin/zsh -li shebang sources your ~/.zprofile and ~/.zshrc, so claude resolves from the same PATH and environment you get in a normal terminal.

Prerequisites

• macOS
• Claude Code installed so claude works in a new terminal
• python3 (the bundled watcher needs it; install with xcode-select --install)
• Tuple transcription enabled for the call

Installation

Drop this directory into your Tuple triggers folder:

~/.tuple/triggers/claude-sidekick/

The trigger fires the next time call transcription starts.

How it works

When call-transcription-started fires, Tuple provides TUPLE_TRIGGER_CALL_ARTIFACTS_DIRECTORY, the directory holding the current call's transcription artifacts. This trigger:

1. Copies the fixed tuple-call-watcher.py and writes claude-sidekick-prompt.md into that directory.
2. Writes an executable launch-claude-sidekick.command wrapper into that directory.
3. Opens it in your preferred terminal via open (LaunchServices). No AppleScript and no direct binary launch, so it triggers no macOS accessibility prompt and no stray windows.
4. The wrapper starts a login-interactive zsh, changes to the transcripts root, and runs claude with the prompt. Claude runs the bundled watcher to catch up and follow the call.

A PID file (claude-sidekick.pid) keeps a second transcription start from launching a duplicate sidekick for the same call.

For local testing without opening a terminal, set CLAUDE_SIDEKICK_DRY_RUN=1; it writes the prompt and launcher and exits.