Bio, Work & Ideas
Conference affiliation: Claude Code · Anthropic · 2026
Thariq Shihipar is a member of technical staff at Anthropic working on Claude Code, where he develops the tools and interaction patterns that allow AI agents to investigate problems, clarify uncertainty and verify their work. Before joining Anthropic, he co-founded the academic publishing platform PubPub and led One More Multiverse, a Y Combinator-backed collaborative gaming company.
Shihipar began building startups while studying computer engineering at the University of Toronto. He co-founded Chime, a web-notification startup acquired by HubSpot in 2013, and subsequently worked at HubSpot before pursuing graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab.
At MIT, he and Travis Rich created PubPub, an open-source scholarly publishing platform combining collaborative editing, discussion, annotations and multimedia. He also developed NewsClouds, a news-visualization project, and later built Edgeout.gg, a gaming analytics platform acquired by Blitz.
With Hisham Bedri and illustrator Sara Alfageeh, Shihipar co-founded One More Multiverse, which developed browser-based tools for playing tabletop role-playing games in illustrated digital worlds. After winding down the company, he joined Anthropic’s Claude Code team.
He also advocates agent-ready software interfaces, arguing that companies can expose existing products to agents and charge for useful interactions. His experiments with illustrated explanation tools reflect the same practical priority: advanced AI should make difficult work more understandable while expanding what people can accomplish.
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