toolpath-claude

Derive Toolpath provenance documents from Claude conversation logs.

When Claude Code writes your code, the conversation — the reasoning, the tool calls, the abandoned approaches — is the provenance. This crate reads those conversations directly and maps them to Toolpath documents so every AI-assisted change has a traceable origin.

Overview

Reads Claude Code conversation data from ~/.claude/projects/ and provides:

• Conversation reading: Parse JSONL conversation files into typed structures
• Query: Filter and search conversation entries by role, tool use, text content
• Derivation: Map conversations to Toolpath Path documents
• Watching: Monitor conversation files for live updates (feature-gated)

Derivation

Convert Claude conversations into Toolpath documents:

use toolpath_claude::{ClaudeConvo, derive::{DeriveConfig, derive_path}};

let manager = ClaudeConvo::new();
let convo = manager.read_conversation("/Users/alex/project", "session-uuid")?;

let config = DeriveConfig::default();
let path = derive_path(&convo, &config);
# Ok::<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>(())

Mapping

Reading conversations

use toolpath_claude::ClaudeConvo;

let manager = ClaudeConvo::new();

// List projects
let projects = manager.list_projects()?;

// Read a conversation
let convo = manager.read_conversation("/Users/alex/project", "session-uuid")?;
println!("{} entries", convo.entries.len());

// Most recent conversation
let latest = manager.most_recent_conversation("/Users/alex/project")?;

// Search
let matches = manager.find_conversations_with_text("/Users/alex/project", "authentication")?;
# Ok::<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>(())

Querying

use toolpath_claude::{ConversationQuery, MessageRole};

let query = ConversationQuery::new(&convo);
let user_msgs = query.by_role(MessageRole::User);
let tool_uses = query.tool_uses_by_name("Write");
let errors = query.errors();
let matches = query.contains_text("authentication");

Watching

With the watcher feature (enabled by default):

use toolpath_claude::{AsyncConversationWatcher, WatcherConfig};

let config = WatcherConfig::new("/Users/alex/project", "session-uuid");
let mut watcher = AsyncConversationWatcher::new(config)?;
let handle = watcher.start().await?;

// New entries arrive via the handle
while let Some(entries) = handle.recv().await {
    for entry in entries {
        println!("{}: {:?}", entry.uuid, entry.message);
    }
}

Feature flags

Part of Toolpath

This crate is part of the Toolpath workspace. See also:

• toolpath -- core types and query API
• toolpath-git -- derive from git history
• toolpath-dot -- Graphviz DOT rendering
• toolpath-cli -- unified CLI (cargo install toolpath-cli)
• RFC -- full format specification