claude-code-transcripts-ingest

CLI that ingests every Claude Code transcript under ~/.claude/projects into a DuckDB database, with a normalised schema suited for usage / cost analysis across sessions, subagents, tool calls, and cache tokens. Ships with an embedded viewer served over HTTP.

Installs the cct binary.

Install

cargo install claude-code-transcripts-ingest

The duckdb dependency is bundled (built from C++ sources), so the install is self-contained but takes a minute or two the first time.

Quick start

cct ingest                # scans ~/.claude/projects → ~/.local/share/cct/transcripts.duckdb
cct serve                 # viewer at http://localhost:8766

Commands

cct ingest

cct ingest [-i <dir>] [-o <file>] [-j <jobs>] [--pricing <toml>] [--no-progress]

cct serve

cct serve [--db <file>] [--port <n>]

Sessions list

Every session at a glance — cost, tokens, tools used, subagent flag. Filter by project, tool, model, or cost range; sort by most recent or highest spend.

Transcripts

Browse by project → session → turn-by-turn timeline. Every assistant turn shows its exact cost: input, output, cache-read, and cache-creation tokens with the resulting dollar amount. Subagent calls expand inline so you can trace the full cost of any delegated task back to the turn that triggered it.

Dashboard

A multi-panel cost dashboard split into two sub-tabs. Switch between them with the Overview and Outliers buttons; the active tab is preserved in the URL (?sub=outliers) so you can bookmark or share a specific view.

Overview — general spend picture:

• Summary (total cost, token breakdown)
• Daily Spend by Model
• Sessions/Week + $/Session (volume vs per-session cost)
• Token-type Cost Split (main-chain vs sidechain)
• First-turn Cache-Creation Distribution (system-prompt size proxy)
• Model Breakdown
• Errors

Outliers — actionable panels for reducing spend:

• Top 1% Most-Expensive Turns (top 30 by cost, click to open session)
• Top Sessions (by cost, click to open in Transcripts)
• Context Size Distribution (peak tokens per session)
• Cache Invalidation Events
• Compaction Events
• Hour-of-Day Cost
• Artifact Leaderboards: Large Writes / Agent Prompts / Tool Results
• Top Reads by Size
• File Hotspots (files re-read across the most sessions)
• Bash Leaderboards
• MCP Tool Result Sizes
• Hook Frequency & Duration
• Skill Invocation Stats
• Agent Model Usage
• Cache Health
• Session Distribution (by turn count)

cct info

cct info [--db <file>]

Prints the DB path, file size, entry count, session count, and last ingest timestamp. Useful for confirming the DB location and freshness without opening DuckDB manually.

Run cct --help / cct <subcommand> --help for the authoritative flag list.

Library

The transcript parser lives in claude-code-transcripts and can be used standalone without DuckDB.

License

Dual-licensed under MIT OR Apache-2.0.