Claude Prism

ClaudePrism is an open source desktop workspace for academic writing. It combines a LaTeX editor, a Claude chat panel and a live PDF preview in one native application, positioned as a local first alternative to cloud based academic writing tools such as OpenAI Prism. It runs Claude Code as a local subprocess, and the user chooses the Claude model for each session. It is aimed at researchers, graduate students and scientists who write papers in LaTeX and want their documents kept on their own disk. LaTeX compilation uses the embedded Tectonic engine, which downloads packages once and then compiles fully offline. A one click setup creates project level Python virtual environments with uv so analysis and plots can be produced alongside the manuscript. More than 100 scientific skills supply curated prompts and tool configurations for fields such as bioinformatics, cheminformatics, machine learning and clinical research, and a git based history supports labels and diffs between versions. The application is built with Tauri 2 and Rust and ships for macOS on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows and Linux. ClaudePrism itself is free and released under the MIT license, with no paid tier listed. Because AI features run through Claude Code and Anthropic's API, using the assistant requires an Anthropic account, and any cost depends on the user's own Claude plan or API usage rather than on ClaudePrism. The project is explicit that local storage does not mean local inference: documents are stored and compiled on the user's machine, but prompts and file contents are still sent to Anthropic's cloud API when the AI features are used.