cchat

A CLI for interacting with Claude Code chats. It can also be a web server.

Installation

Requires uv and just.

just install

This installs the project with all optional dependencies (including the web UI) and dev tools (pytest).

To install as a global tool instead:

uv tool install --editable '.[serve]'

Development

just check        # run tests, lint, and typecheck
just test         # run tests only
just lint         # run ruff
just typecheck    # run ty
just pre-commit-hook  # install git pre-commit hook that runs check

Usage

> cchat --help
usage: cchat [-h] [--no-color] {list,view,line,lines,files,search,tokens,spending,agents,serve} ...

Claude Code Chat Browser

positional arguments:
  {list,view,line,lines,files,search,tokens,spending,agents,serve}
    list                List conversations
    view                View conversation details
    line                Show a single conversation line
    lines               List lines in a conversation
    files               List files modified in a conversation
    search              Search conversation transcripts
    tokens              Show token usage and estimated cost
    spending            Show spending by day and week
    agents              List subagents for a conversation
    serve               Start the cchat web UI server

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --no-color            Disable colored output

MIT License

Copyright 2026 Taylor Meek

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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