claude-devtools

claude-devtools

  Your Claude is coding blind. See everything it did.

  The debugging tool for Claude Code. Read session transcripts, inspect tool calls, track token usage — directly from the Claude Code logs on your machine.

   
   
   
   
   

    

    

    

    

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The Problem

Claude Code started hiding what it does.

Since v2.1.20, Claude Code replaced detailed output with opaque summaries. Read 3 files. Searched for 1 pattern. Edited 2 files. No file paths. No content. No line numbers. The community backlash was immediate.

But the problem goes deeper than collapsed file paths:

- Thinking steps — Claude's chain-of-thought reasoning is completely invisible in the terminal
- Tool call details — you see a one-line summary, not the actual input/output
- Subagent activity — agents spawn agents, but you only see the final result
- Context window — a three-segment progress bar with no breakdown of what's consuming your tokens
- Team coordination — teammate messages, task delegation, shutdown requests — all buried

The only workaround is --verbose, which dumps raw JSON, internal system prompts, and thousands of lines of noise. There is no middle ground.

The Solution

claude-devtools is the debugging tool for Claude Code. It reads the Claude Code logs and session transcripts already saved to ~/.claude/ on your machine, and reconstructs *everything*.

Zero configuration. No API keys. No wrappers. Works with every session you've ever run.

If claude-devtools saves you time debugging Claude Code, leaving a ⭐ on the repo is the single best way to support the project — it helps other developers find it.

Installation

Homebrew (macOS)

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