Behind every "thinking..." spinner, Claude is spawning sub-agents, calling MCP servers, running skills, firing hooks — and you can't see any of it. You Cmd+Tab through 15 terminals trying to remember which session was doing what. A cache expired while you weren't looking. A session finished 10 minutes ago and you didn't notice. Another one hit its context limit and you're burning tokens on a dead conversation.

You're paying $200/mo for Claude Code. You deserve a dashboard.

curl -fsSL https://get.claudeview.ai/install.sh | sh

What You Get

Live Monitor

Rich Chat History

Advanced Search

Plans, Prompts & Teams

Plugin Manager

Workflows

Open in IDE

Agent Internals — See What's Hidden

Claude Code does a lot behind "thinking..." that never shows in your terminal. claude-view exposes all of it.

Analytics

A rich analytics suite for your Claude Code usage. Think Cursor's dashboard, but deeper.

Insights and Fluency Score are in early experimental stage. Treat as directional, not definitive.

Built for the Power User

claude-view is for the developer who:

• Runs 3+ projects simultaneously, each with multiple worktrees
• Has 10-20 Claude Code sessions open at any time
• Needs to context-switch fast without losing track of what's running
• Wants to optimize token spend by timing messages around cache windows
• Gets frustrated by Cmd+Tab-bing through terminals to check on agents
• Worktree-aware — detects branch drift across git worktrees

How It's Built

Measured on an M-series Mac with 1,493 sessions across 26 projects:

Key techniques:

• SIMD pre-filter — memchr scans raw bytes before touching a JSON parser
• Memory-mapped I/O — JSONL files are mmap'd and parsed in-place, never copied
• Tantivy search — Same engine behind Quickwit; indexes 1,500 sessions in under a second
• Zero-copy where it counts — Borrowed slices from mmap through parse to response

cargo build --release
/usr/bin/time -l target/release/claude-view   # peak RSS + wall time

How It Compares

The Claude Code ecosystem has great tools — chat UIs, history viewers, session managers. claude-view fills a different gap: real-time monitoring + deep history + analytics in one lightweight workspace.

Chat UIs (CodePilot, CUI, claude-code-webui) are interfaces for Claude Code. claude-view is a dashboard that watches your existing terminal sessions. They're complementary, not competing.

When you're already running 10+ Claude Code sessions eating RAM and CPU, the last thing you want is a 300 MB dashboard competing for resources.

Installation

The shell installer downloads a pre-built binary (~10 MB), installs to ~/.claude-view/bin, and adds it to your PATH. Then just run claude-view.

Only requirement: Claude Code installed — this creates the session files we monitor.

The pre-built binary (npx claude-view) ships with auth, sharing, and mobile relay baked in. If you're building from source or running your own server, these features are opt-in via environment variables — omit any of them and that feature is simply disabled. No errors, no warnings, just graceful degradation.

To run fully local with no cloud dependencies (the default for self-hosters):

bun dev    # just works — all cloud features off

To enable a feature, export the env var before starting the server:

export SUPABASE_URL=https://your-project.supabase.co
export RELAY_URL=wss://your-relay.fly.dev/ws
export SHARE_WORKER_URL=https://your-worker.example.com
export SHARE_VIEWER_URL=https://your-viewer.example.com
bun run dev:server

These are runtime overrides — they take precedence over whatever is baked into the binary at build time.

If your machine restricts writes to ~/Library/Caches/ (e.g., DataCloak, CrowdStrike, corporate DLP):

cp crates/server/.env.example .env
# Uncomment the CLAUDE_VIEW_DATA_DIR line

This keeps the database, search index, and lock files in .data/ inside the repo — no writes outside the project directory.

FAQ

claude-view checks your Claude credentials by reading ~/.claude/.credentials.json (with macOS Keychain fallback). If it can't find or parse valid credentials, the warning banner appears. Try these steps in order:

1. Verify Claude CLI auth works

claude auth status

If this says "Logged in", your credentials are valid. If not, run claude auth login first.

2. Check the credentials file exists

cat ~/.claude/.credentials.json

You should see JSON with a claudeAiOauth section containing an accessToken. If the file is missing, your credentials may be stored only in the OS Keychain (see step 3).

3. Check macOS Keychain access

security find-generic-password -s "Claude Code-credentials" -w

If this returns JSON or hex-encoded data, credentials are in Keychain. If it returns an error, or you're on a corporate machine with security tools (DataCloak, CrowdStrike, etc.) that block Keychain access, this is likely the issue — run claude auth login to regenerate the file.

4. Check for token expiry

Inside the credentials JSON, look at the expiresAt field (Unix milliseconds). If it's in the past, your token has expired. Run claude auth login to refresh.

5. Check HOME environment

claude-view reads credentials from $HOME/.claude/.credentials.json. If the server process has a different $HOME than your shell, it won't find your credentials.

echo $HOME

If all the above checks pass and the banner still shows, please report it on our Discord with the output of claude auth status and we'll help debug it.

Community

• Website: claudeview.ai — docs, changelog, blog
• Discord: Join the server for support, feature requests, and discussion

Prerequisites: Rust, Bun, cargo install cargo-watch

bun install        # Install all workspace dependencies
bun dev            # Start full-stack dev (Rust + Web with hot reload)

Workspace Layout

Dev Commands

Testing Production Distribution:

bun run dist:test    # One command: build → pack → install → run

Releasing:

bun run release          # patch bump: 0.1.0 → 0.1.1
bun run release:minor    # minor bump: 0.1.0 → 0.2.0
bun run release:major    # major bump: 0.1.0 → 1.0.0

git push origin main --tags    # triggers CI → builds all platforms → auto-publishes to npm

Platform Support

Related

• claudeview.ai — Official website, docs, and changelog
• @claude-view/plugin — Claude Code plugin with 8 MCP tools and 3 skills. claude plugin add @claude-view/plugin
• claude-backup — Claude Code deletes your sessions after 30 days. This saves them. npx claude-backup

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