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Claude Desktop/new-chat

Start a new chat

Opens a new conversation, optionally with the prompt already written.

macos · windows · linux · sign-in required · updated 2026-07-12

Format

claude://claude.ai/new?q={prompt}
webhttps://claude.ai/new?q={prompt}

Try it

claude://claude.ai/new?q=Summarize%20this%20week%27s%20release%20notesOpen

What you supply

{prompt}optional

Text to place in the prompt field.

URL-encode it. Anything past roughly 14,000 characters is truncated.

Bare claude://claude.ai/new opens an empty chat.

The prompt is written into the field, not sent, so the person still decides whether to press Enter. That makes this safe to put in a doc, a dashboard, or a support macro — unlike Grok's, which submits on load.

Prefer the webLink — https://claude.ai/new?q=… — for a link other people will click. It opens the app when the app is installed and the site when it is not, where the bare scheme fails silently for anyone without it. This is the form Anthropic's own "open in Claude" buttons use.