Claude Code Manager — a CLI + TUI for everything Claude Code stores under ~/.claude/projects/.

List projects, browse sessions, view / delete / export them, inspect memory files, see disk-usage stats — without cd-ing into a directory full of URL-encoded path names.

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Quick start

uv tool install claudecm
ccm                  # launches the TUI
ccm ls               # subcommand mode
ccm stats            # disk-usage dashboard

Requires Python 3.10+ and uv (or pipx/pip if you prefer). The PyPI distribution is named claudecm (the unqualified ccm was already taken). The console command stays ccm.

Why ccm

~/.claude/projects/ accumulates fast: every Claude Code session writes a JSONL file, every project keeps its own memory directory, and the folder names are a one-way path encoding (/home/q/my_projects/foo → -home-q-my-projects-foo). Going in with ls and rm is painful.

• One pane to navigate them all — projects on the left, sessions on the right, Claude-style spinner up top.
• Subcommands for scripting — ccm ls --sort size -n 10, ccm export <project> -f md, ccm stats.
• Decodes folder names correctly — by reading the real cwd from inside each session's JSONL, not by replacing - with / and hoping.
• Knows about memory and PRs — surfaces memory/*.md, counts messages by type, picks up custom session titles.
• No daemon, no config — operates directly on the on-disk layout Claude Code already uses.

Installation

From PyPI (recommended)

uv tool install claudecm     # global, exposes `ccm`
# alternatives:
pipx install claudecm
pip install --user claudecm

Run without installing (one-off)

uvx --from claudecm ccm ls

From source (latest main)

git clone https://github.com/QuocTang/ccm
cd ccm
uv tool install .            # global
# or for dev work:
uv sync --extra dev
uv run ccm --help

From a GitHub commit/branch

uv tool install git+https://github.com/QuocTang/ccm

Usage

ccm                         # launch TUI (default when no args)
ccm ls                      # list projects (sorted by recent activity)
ccm ls -s size -n 10        # sort by size, top 10
ccm show <project>          # detail for one project
ccm sessions <project>      # list sessions of a project
ccm view <project> <sess>   # render messages of a session
ccm rm <project>            # delete a project directory (with confirm)
ccm rm-session <p> <s>      # delete one session
ccm export <p> [<s>] -f md  # export to markdown (or -f json | raw)
ccm memory <project>        # view memory files
ccm memory <p> --show NAME  # print one memory file
ccm memory <p> --rm NAME    # delete one memory file
ccm stats                   # disk usage dashboard
ccm tui                     # launch TUI explicitly

<project> accepts an encoded dir name, the real cwd path, the basename (e.g. my-project), or any unique substring of either.

<session> accepts the full UUID or a unique prefix (the 8-char head shown by ccm sessions is usually enough).

TUI keys

Key	Action
↑/↓ j/k	Move cursor
h/l ←/→	Focus projects / sessions pane
Tab	Switch panes
Enter	Drill in (project → sessions → view)
m	Show memory for highlighted project
d	Delete focused project / session
r	Refresh
q Ctrl+C	Quit (or back inside a sub-screen)

Inside a delete-confirm modal: y / Enter to confirm, n / Esc to cancel.

Architecture

Three layers, deliberately separated so domain code stays UI-agnostic.

flowchart LR
    User([Terminal user])
    subgraph ccm
        direction TB
        CLI["cli/<br/><sub>typer subcommands</sub>"]
        TUI["tui/<br/><sub>textual app</sub>"]
        CORE["core/<br/><sub>projects · sessions · memory · stats · export</sub>"]
        SHARED["palette.py · paths.py<br/><sub>shared theme & path helpers</sub>"]
    end
    Disk[("~/.claude/projects/<br/>JSONL sessions + memory/")]

    User -- "ccm <subcommand>" --> CLI
    User -- "ccm (no args)" --> TUI
    CLI --> CORE
    TUI --> CORE
    CLI -.-> SHARED
    TUI -.-> SHARED
    CORE --> Disk

Loading

The lossy folder-name encoding is the one bit that requires care: Claude Code replaces both / and _ with -, so paths.real_cwd_from_sessions() reads the actual cwd field from the first session JSONL inside each directory. The naive - → / replacement is only a fallback for empty projects.

Development

uv sync --extra dev                                           # install + pytest
uv run pytest -q                                              # run all tests
uv run pytest tests/core/test_paths.py -k naive_decode        # one test
uv tool install . --force --reinstall                         # rebuild global `ccm`

See CLAUDE.md for architecture notes and the textual / typer gotchas we hit (lossy path encoding, Widget._size shadowing, markup escaping, etc).

Contributing

PRs welcome. Keep the three-layer split (core stays UI-agnostic), run uv run pytest -q before pushing, and follow the gotchas in CLAUDE.md if you touch tui/.

Contributors

License

MIT © QuocTang

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