ccr — CLI Code Resume
A terminal UI session picker for CLI coding assistants. One picker across every tool you use, with cross-tool filter, sort, and cleanup.
Supported today: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI.
What it does
Scans each supported tool's session store, shows every session in a TUI ranked by last activity, and resumes the one you pick — in its original working directory, with its original session ID, via the right CLI.
┌─ ccr — 211 sessions (2 possibly live) ──────────────────────────────────┐
│ Sessions │ Preview │
│ ▶ [claude] api-service 12m │ tool: claude │
│ fix null deref in handler │ cwd: ~/projects/api-service │
│ [codex] web-app 1h ● live │ last: 2026-04-19 14:22 (12m ago) │
│ retry on 429s then log │ msgs: 47 │
│ [gemini] cli-tool 3d │ id: a1b2c3d4-5e6f-7890-abcd-… │
│ publish v2 release notes │ │
│ [claude] docs-site 1w │ ── recent turns ── │
│ rewrite getting-started │ ❯ user │
│ │ the panic reproduces only on Windows │
│ │ ◆ asst │
│ │ I'll add a test for \r\n then trace… │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
↑↓/jk · g/G top/bottom · Enter resume · d delete · D prune · / filter · ? help · q
If a selected session is already running elsewhere (detected via
pgrep -f <session-id>), a confirmation modal appears before spawning a
second attachment:
┌─ Confirm resume ──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ ⚠ Session may already be running │
│ │
│ tool: claude │
│ session: a1b2c3d4-5e6f-7890-abcd-… │
│ cwd: ~/projects/web-app │
│ │
│ matching processes: │
│ 42318 claude --resume a1b2c3d4-5e6f-… │
│ │
│ Resuming may interleave writes and corrupt session. │
│ │
│ [y] resume anyway [n] cancel │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Install
Or from source:
Use
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
↑ / k |
up |
↓ / j |
down |
g / Home |
jump to top |
G / End |
jump to bottom |
PgUp/Dn |
page up/down (10 rows) |
/ |
filter by title, cwd, or tool |
Enter |
resume selected session (live-checked) |
? / F1 |
help overlay |
q / Esc |
quit |
On Enter, ccr runs pgrep -f <session-id> first. If a matching process is
found, a confirmation modal warns before spawning a second attachment (which
would interleave JSONL writes and corrupt the session). Otherwise it execs the
tool's resume command with the session's original cwd.
Management
| Key / Command | Action |
|---|---|
d |
soft-delete selected session (confirm modal) |
D |
prune-by-age modal — default 90d, accepts Nd/Nw/Nmo/Ny |
ccr prune --older-than N |
non-interactive bulk trash; --dry-run to preview |
ccr list |
plain-text dump of all sessions (tool id date title) |
Soft-deletes go to ~/.ccr/trash/<tool>/<id>.jsonl and are auto-pruned after
30 days. Restore by moving the file back to its original location.
Environment variables
| Variable | Purpose |
|---|---|
CCR_CLAUDE_DIR |
Full path to Claude's projects/ dir |
CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR |
Claude Code's native override; ccr appends projects |
CCR_CODEX_DIR |
Full path to Codex's sessions/ dir |
CCR_GEMINI_DIR |
Full path to Gemini's ~/.gemini root |
CCR_TRASH_DIR |
Override the ~/.ccr/trash/ destination |
How it works
Each backend knows where its tool stores sessions and how to resume one.
| Tool | Storage | Resume invocation |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/<uuid>.jsonl |
claude --resume <uuid> (cwd set) |
| Codex | ~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-*.jsonl |
codex resume <uuid> (cwd set) |
| Gemini CLI | ~/.gemini/tmp/<project>/chats/session-*.json + projects.json |
gemini --resume <N> — ccr looks up the 1-based index at runtime via gemini --list-sessions |
For each session ccr extracts:
cwd— first record with acwdfield- title — first user message, truncated to 80 chars
last_activity— most recenttimestampmessage_count— count of user + assistant recordspreview— last 6 turns, rendered in the right pane
Purely read-only. Never modifies session files.
Adding a backend
A backend is any type that implements:
Register it in backends::all() and sessions surface in the shared TUI with a
tool tag in the left column.
License
MIT