Claude Code Recap

See every recent Claude Code session across every project on your machine, and get the exact command to jump back into any of them.

  

  

npx claude-code-recap  then  /recap

The GIF above is a downsampled loop. Full-quality recording: assets/demo.mp4.

Claude Code's built-in /resume only lists sessions for the directory you are standing in. After a reboot, a crash, or a week of jumping between five repos, there is no way to answer "what was I working on, and where did I leave off". recap answers that in one command, and can re-open a whole working set in terminal tabs.
The full story behind recap, why it reads exactly two files and writes nothing, the shlex.quote safety in --open, and the zero-dependency stance: Resume Claude Code Sessions Across Every Project on adatepe.dev.

What it does

recap reads the session logs Claude Code already writes to disk and prints a day-grouped timeline of your recent sessions. Per session: last activity, the absolute project path, a short summary, where the session stopped, an approximate turn count, the git branch, the model, the session id, and a ready-to-paste cd  && claude -r  resume command.

- Every project on the machine, not just the current directory.
- Every row says where that session stopped, so you re-enter on the open question rather than the opening prompt.
- --pick jumps straight into one session.
- --open re-opens all of them, each in its own terminal tab, already resumed. iTerm2, Terminal, tmux, wezterm, kitty, gnome-terminal, konsole.
- --grep finds the session you solved something in. --dirty shows which projects you left work sitting in.
- Pure Python 3 standard library. No dependencies, no build step.
- Offline and read-only by default. The only network path is the…