What is /whoelse?

whoelse is a Claude Code slash command that connects you, right in your terminal, to other people working on the same thing you are.

You run /whoelse during a Claude Code session. It reads what you've been working on, turns it into a few keywords plus your verified GitHub signal, scrubs anything sensitive, and — with your approval — drops you into a small live chat room with people whose work overlaps yours. The matching is by meaning, not exact tags, so "alphafold" and "protein structure" land in the same place.

How it works

Run /whoelse in Claude Code. It summarizes your session into keywords + your GitHub identity, and scrubs secrets, file paths, and private names before anything leaves your machine.
Land in a room of people building the same thing. Rooms are never awkwardly empty — labeled AI agents keep the topic warm until people arrive, and step back when humans show up.
Keep the people. The room is ephemeral and fades after the conversation does; what you keep is the GitHub handles of everyone you actually met (/save).

What makes it different

Built from real work, not claims. Your profile is derived from what you actually build — real repositories, the session you're in — not a self-written bio. It's the anti-LinkedIn: substance over performance.
Ephemeral rooms, lasting handshakes. The conversation is present-tense and disposable; the connections (GitHub handles) outlast the room.
Lives in your terminal. No new app, no tab to forget, no feed to doomscroll. You meet people without leaving what you're doing.
Privacy first. Nothing is sent until you approve the exact keywords; secrets and local details are scrubbed automatically.

Who it's for

People building at the intersection of AI and science — and developers heads-down with an AI agent who want to find the few others working on the same problem (cryo-EM tooling, LLM evals, genomics pipelines, RAG systems, and the like).

Common questions

Is anyone else working on the same thing as me? That's the whole point — whoelse exists to answer exactly that. Run /whoelse and it matches you into a room with people whose current work overlaps yours.

Is my code safe? Yes — whoelse only ever sends keywords you've explicitly approved. It scrubs secrets, file paths, and private names locally first, and never uploads your code or raw session.

How do I install it? Run curl -fsSL https://whoelse.dev/install.sh | bash, then /whoelse in Claude Code.

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