Jaime Ortega

The Claude Key

Press F13. Claude Code opens in a new terminal, ready to type.

Year
2026
Made for
macOS
State
shipped

Source

The gap between wanting to ask something and having somewhere to type it was four moves long: find the terminal, open a window, cd somewhere sane, start the thing.

Now it is one key. F13 fires an Automator service that opens a Ghostty window at my home directory with Claude Code already running in it.

It is wired to my stack — that terminal, that key, those flags. Edit one shell script and it is wired to yours.

How to use it

Run the installer, then press F13.

  1. Terminal 
    git clone https://github.com/JaimeOrtegaxyz/the-claude-key.git
cd the-claude-key && ./install.sh

  2. The first press throws one-time permission prompts — an Automation one and a Ghostty one. Allow both.

macOS, Ghostty 1.3+, and some way to press F13: a full keyboard, or any key remapped to it in Karabiner. To change the key or what it launches, edit start-claude.sh and re-run the installer.

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