Find and reopen past Claude Code sessions — searchable, rendered as a chat.

Install & run

npx claude-chatview

Your browser opens automatically at http://localhost:3001.

Global install:

npm i -g claude-chatview
cview

Features

• Per-session chat view with grouped consecutive messages, code-aware Markdown, and per-tool cards.
• Inline subagent expansion — Agent tool calls expand the subagent transcript at the call site.
• Conversation timeline — a draggable slider across the top of the chat for seeking in long sessions. Arrow / Home / End / PageUp / PageDown also work.
• Open in terminal — every session row produces a cd "<cwd>" && claude --resume <session-id> snippet you can copy.
• Search across session title, last reply, project name, cwd path, git branch, and sessionId prefix.
• Light and dark themes (respects prefers-color-scheme).
• Export — copy or save a selected range as Markdown, standalone HTML, PNG, or JPG. A standalone HTML export opens without cview or a network connection and includes its own range selection, theme toggle, HTML re-export, and PNG / JPG capture controls.
• Read-only. cview never writes to your session files.

Keyboard

The timeline slider is focusable:

| Key | Action | |-----|--------| | ← / → | Step one message | | PageUp / PageDown | Step 10 messages | | Home / End | Jump to start / end |

Configuration

| Variable | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | PORT | 3001 | Server port | | CVIEW_CLAUDE_DIR | ~/.claude | Claude data root |

PORT=4000 cview

Security

• Local-only mode on 127.0.0.1.
• /api rejects non-loopback IPs and non-localhost Origin headers.
• Path traversal in :project / :sessionId / :agentId is validated.

Development

Use the Node version in .node-version.

npm run bootstrap    # npm ci + Playwright Chromium and system dependencies
npm run dev          # Express :3001 + Vite :5173
npm run check        # Strict types + lint + unit/integration tests + build
npm run test:e2e     # Chromium verification, including offline exports
npm run check:all    # All quality gates
npm run build        # Node output in build/ + frontend output in dist/
npm run lint:design  # Validate DESIGN.md against the official spec

License

MIT