Claude Code Gets Smart: Let Your AI Interview You

A developer has created Coralline, a status line inspired by Powerlevel10k (the terminal setup every command-line enthusiast seems to use) designed specifically for Claude Code. The concept is clever in its simplicity: instead of waiting for you to describe in excruciating detail what you want, the AI interviews you like a sharp colleague would, gathers the intel it needs, then proceeds straight to installation without further fuss.

How does it work? You pretty much paste the prompt into Claude Code and the magic happens. The AI starts an interactive conversation with you — not some deaf chatbot, but something closer to an actual technical interview. It asks you clarifying questions about your requirements, context, preferences, and as you answer, it builds an increasingly accurate picture of what you need. Once it has enough information, it proceeds to install automatically. No extra clicks, no nested menus to get lost in.

Why is anyone noticing? Because it represents a small but meaningful shift in paradigm. Until now, AI-driven automation either tried to guess or bombarded you with configuration screens. Here the flow is conversational — almost natural. It's like the difference between those voice assistants that understand nothing and an actual colleague who knows how to ask the right questions.

The technical bit is interesting even for curious developers: Coralline leverages Claude's architecture to maintain coherent conversational context, meaning the AI doesn't forget what you said three turns ago. It's a simple addition to Claude Code, but it fundamentally changes the workflow.

One thing worth noting: this is a personal project, launched by one developer on GitHub. It's not an official Anthropic initiative, but the fact that it works this smoothly with Claude Code suggests current tools are more powerful than many people realize. It's one of those tools that sounds small on paper, but once you use it, you can't imagine working without it.