I've been passively observing Anthropic's releases over the years, and I've had
a lot of fun trying to decode the codenames they've been using for project
names.
I love how Claude's tiers internally are "free", "pro", and then "raven". I assume raven is the enterprise plan but I like the idea that they have a special tier for birds.
Okay so "raven" was the codename for the enterprise plan.
What other codenames have they used?
Codenamed projects that already released:
Raven: Enterprise plan
Paprika: Claude 3.7 "Extended Thinking" mode
Cayenne: Global personal preferences prompt which released recently in beta.
What codename projects are currently in development?
I did a bit of... digging and found a few more codednamed projects that are
currently in development:
Bananagrams: Claude already has google drive integration, but this would allow
Claude to search and find files automatially without user input. It looks like
it does some indexing of files and folders behind the scenes, which means that
performance is degraded until that indexing is complete.
Turmeric / Harmony: Seems like they mix up these codenames a lot. Turmeric
seems to be some sort syncing between a local folder and Claude's context. It
seems like it would allow Claude to search and edit files on some local
folders. I wonder if this is what ended up as Claude Code? Still seems to be a
lot of references in the web app which makes me suspect there's more coming.
Foccacia: A project to integrate google calendar with Claude. Looks like it's
basically just a tool use built-in that allows Claude to search your calendar
(and maybe edit it? Unclear).
Sourdough: A project to integrate gmail with Claude. Looks like in this case
it's read-only. Here's the WIP dialog that would be shown when you enable it:
Compass: Potentially the most exciting, seems to be Anthropic's answer to
OpenAI's Deep Research. Looks like this is super under wraps. They don't
really leak a lot in the web app or the phone app.
Here's what these look like in the web app right now:
Bonus
Anthropic leaks so much in the web app and it's quite fun to dig around. I found
that they're working on prompt examples (everything after Artifacts is not
currently available in the web app):
They're also working on integrating with a TON of stuff (everything after Google
Drive is not currently available or announced):
Conclusion
Let Anthropic cook. I'm excited to see a real competitor to OpenAI when it comes
to Deep Research and I have faith that Anthropic will deliver.
