snoop-cli 0.0.0-stage → 0.2.1

package/LICENSE

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+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2026 Joshua Alexander Zillwood
+
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package/README.md

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-# Temporary Holding Version
+<h1>
+  <picture>
+    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jzills/snoop/main/site/static/mark-dark.svg">
+    <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jzills/snoop/main/site/static/mark-light.svg" alt="" height="28">
+  </picture>
+  snoop
+</h1>
 
-This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
+This is a fast terminal viewer for Claude Code session transcripts
+(`~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl`). You can keep it open in a second terminal
+next to `claude` to watch a session live, or browse past sessions to see what
+each prompt cost, how full the context is, which files changed, what the
+subagents did and where the time went. The documentation is at
+https://jzills.github.io/snoop/.
+
+![snoop: the summary across sessions, a session's timeline with a turn's
+waterfall, an expanded subagent, the Files tab and Stats](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jzills/snoop/main/demo/demo.gif)
+
+## Install
+
+```
+brew install jzills/tap/snoop                      # macOS and Linux
+curl -fsSL https://jzills.github.io/snoop/install.sh | sh
+npm install -g snoop-cli                           # or: pipx install snoop-cli
+go install github.com/jzills/snoop/cmd/snoop@latest
+```
+
+On Windows, use npm, PyPI or the PowerShell script:
+
+```
+irm https://jzills.github.io/snoop/install.ps1 | iex
+```
+
+Every method installs the same `snoop` command. On npm and PyPI the package
+is named `snoop-cli`, since `snoop` was taken, and it carries the binary for
+your platform, so nothing is downloaded or built when it installs. With
+`uv`, run `uv tool install snoop-cli`.
+
+The install script picks the build for your machine, checks it against the
+release's `SHA256SUMS`, and installs it to `~/.local/bin` without sudo. To
+install somewhere else, set `SNOOP_INSTALL_DIR`, and to install a given
+release instead of the newest, set `SNOOP_VERSION`, such as `v0.1.0`. The
+PowerShell script does the same on Windows, installing to
+`%LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\snoop` and adding it to your `PATH`.
+
+You can also download a binary for Linux, macOS or Windows from the
+[latest release](https://github.com/jzills/snoop/releases/latest). Each
+archive holds the `snoop` executable, the license and this README.
+
+Testing covers Claude Code 2.1.280 through 2.1.310. The transcript format is
+undocumented and changes between versions. Records that snoop doesn't
+recognize are ignored, so a new version may show less rather than break.
+Please open an issue if something goes missing.
+
+## Use
+
+```
+snoop                  # pick a session (all projects)
+snoop --follow         # follow the newest session for this directory, live;
+                       # switches automatically when a new session starts
+snoop --live           # every session at work right now, across projects
+snoop 64f3ec44         # open by session id prefix (or a .jsonl path)
+snoop --project DIR    # treat DIR as the current project
+snoop hooks install    # let the Diff tab send comments to the agent
+snoop --version
+```
+
+## What you see
+
+**Timeline:** The timeline shows every prompt, reply, thinking block and tool
+call, one per line, with a blank line before each prompt so every turn
+stands apart. A row in the same minute as the one above shows only its
+seconds (`:42`). Tool rows show their duration and status (`✓` done, `✗`
+error, `◌` running). Built-in tools (`▸`), skills (`✦`), MCP calls (`⇄`,
+shown as `server·tool`) and subagents (`⤷`) each have their own color. The
+right pane shows the selected item in full: Bash commands, Edit diffs, Write
+content, agent prompts and results.
+
+Each prompt row shows that turn's tokens, estimated cost (`≈`) and duration,
+and compactions appear as `⟳ compacted (auto) 253k → 68k`. The header shows
+how full the context window is (`ctx 142k/200k ▰▰▰▰▰▰▰▱▱▱ 71%`), turning to
+the accent color at 70% and red at 90%. Selecting a prompt shows where its
+turn's time went: totals, the five slowest tool calls, and a waterfall that
+places each call by its start and end, so parallel calls overlap.
+
+Pressing `x` on an Agent call expands its subagent inline, indented under a
+`│` rule and kept live while it runs. Pressing `X` expands every subagent,
+nested ones too. Search and filters reach into subagents, and a collapsed call
+whose subagent has matches is kept and marked `●`.
+
+**Tools:** The Tools tab groups every tool call by kind (built-in, skills,
+MCP, subagents), then by name (tool, skill, MCP `server·tool`, subagent type),
+then lists the individual calls, with counts, errors and average latency.
+Selecting a group summarizes it in the right pane, and pressing `enter` on a
+call jumps to it in the timeline.
+
+**Files:** The Files tab lists every file the session and its subagents read,
+edited or wrote, with read, edit and write counts and the lines added and
+removed. Changed files come first, then files only read, each most recent
+first. The right pane shows a file's history with every change as a diff,
+which `n` and `N` step through, and pressing `enter` shows the latest change
+in the timeline. Pressing `T` switches to a tree of folders, each with the
+totals of its files. Changes made through Bash aren't tracked.
+
+**Stats:** The Stats tab opens with the session's cost, duration, tokens (and
+how many came from cache) and context. Below them, Turns lists each prompt's
+time, tokens, cost and context, with a bar for its share of the cost and the
+costliest prompt highlighted. Tools lists the tools used most, with errors
+and average time, beside where the tokens went. Models lists each model with
+its requests and cost.
+
+Claude Code records a session's cost only when the session ends, so while it
+runs, snoop estimates the cost from each request's tokens at the model's API
+prices, and marks it `≈` and "estimated". Once the cost is recorded, snoop
+splits each model's total across the prompts by token use, weighted by each
+kind of token's price, so the prompt costs add up to the recorded total. The
+estimate leaves out subagents' requests, and models without a known price
+show tokens only.
+
+## Many sessions at once
+
+**Live board:** The live board, opened with `snoop --live` or by pressing `w`
+in the picker, lists every session written in the last 30 minutes, across
+projects, most urgent first.
+
+| State | Meaning |
+| --- | --- |
+| `? asking` | the session asks for permission to use a tool, which you can answer here |
+| `◌ waiting` | a tool call has had no result for `--stall` (30s), usually a permission prompt |
+| `✓ your turn` | the turn ended, or you interrupted it |
+| `● working` | replying, or running a tool or subagent (shown underneath) |
+| `· idle` | no prompts yet, or nothing written for 10 minutes |
+
+The board's header counts the sessions waiting on you (`1 waiting on you`).
+Each row shows the project, the session, how full its context is, its cost
+and when it last wrote. Press `enter` to open a session and `esc` to come
+back, or `o` and `O` to sort by another column. Only sessions on the board are read, and after the first read, only
+what they add.
+
+**Answer permission prompts:** With snoop's hooks installed (see
+[Review and comment](#review-and-comment)), a session that asks for
+permission shows as `? asking` on the board, with the request in full under
+the list: the command, the edit's diff, or the tool's input. Press `A` to
+allow it once, or `D` to deny it, optionally with a reason that Claude sees.
+The same keys work in the session's own view, where its footer shows the
+request. Claude Code's own prompt still appears in the session's terminal,
+and whichever answer comes first wins.
+
+The hook waits for an answer only while a live board or session view is
+open, for at most 5 minutes (set with `snoop hooks install --ask-wait 10m`),
+and answering in the terminal ends the wait at once. There is no "always
+allow" here, so rules stay in Claude Code's own prompt.
+
+**Find:** Pressing `f` in the picker finds sessions by a file they read or
+changed, a command they ran, or a prompt, subagents included. Every word must
+match the same file, command or prompt. Each result shows what matched, and
+opening it searches its timeline for the same words. Sessions are indexed by
+the same background scan as the summary and cached with it.
+
+## Review and comment
+
+The Diff tab (`5`) shows the session's changes in one of two scopes, and `b`
+switches between them. **Uncommitted** is `git diff HEAD`, with untracked
+files shown as added. **Branch** is everything the branch changed since it
+left its base, committed or not, which is what a pull request would show plus
+the work in progress, so you can review an agent's whole branch without
+opening a PR. Files with changes since the last commit are tagged
+`uncommitted`. The tab opens in Branch when the branch has commits of its own.
+
+Unless you choose one, snoop compares with the closest of `develop`, `main`,
+`master` and `trunk`, preferring `origin/` copies, since a local one may be
+out of date. The line at the top of the tab names the base. Press `B` to pick
+another base, which is saved for the branch in its git config
+(`branch.<name>.snoopBase`), or set `git config snoop.base` for a whole
+repository.
+
+Files the session changed come first, and files changed by you or another
+agent are dimmed. The tab refreshes as the session edits files or runs a
+command, and `r` reads the diff again.
+
+Press `tab` to move into a file's lines, then `c` to comment on a line. Press
+`v` and move to select a range first, or press `C` to comment on the whole
+file. Press `e` or `x` to edit or delete the comment under the cursor.
+Comments wait until you press `S`, which sends them all at once. Each comment
+names the file and lines and quotes the code, so the agent doesn't have to
+reread the file.
+
+Sending needs Claude Code hooks, which you add once:
+
+```
+snoop hooks install              # in ~/.claude/settings.json
+snoop hooks install --project    # in ./.claude/settings.json instead
+snoop hooks status               # or uninstall
+```
+
+The hooks run `snoop hook` after each tool call, when the agent tries to
+finish, and when you submit a prompt. The agent sees your comments at the
+first of these, so a working agent gets them mid-turn and an agent that has
+finished keeps going. The footer shows when they are delivered. Without the
+hooks, `S` copies the comments to the clipboard instead. A fourth hook runs
+when a session asks for permission, so the live board can
+[answer it](#many-sessions-at-once). If you installed the hooks before that
+hook existed, `snoop hooks status` says so, and running `snoop hooks install`
+again adds it.
+
+The hooks are the only change snoop makes to Claude Code's settings, and
+`snoop hooks uninstall` removes exactly those entries. Sent comments wait in a
+`snoop/inbox` folder in your state directory (`~/.local/state` on Linux) until
+a hook delivers them. Permission requests wait in `snoop/asks` beside it, and
+open snoops refresh a small `snoop/listening` file every 2 seconds, which is
+how the hook knows to wait. A session that was already running may need a restart
+before it uses the hooks.
+
+## Summary across sessions
+
+Pressing `s` in the session picker switches to a summary of the sessions
+listed, so it follows `c` and the search. It shows sessions, prompts, tool
+calls and the error rate, cost and tokens, a daily cost chart for the last 30
+days, and the top tools, skills, MCP servers, subagent types and models with
+their error rates. Every transcript is parsed in the background
+(`scanning 12/48` in the header), and the results are cached in
+`~/.cache/snoop/summaries.json` (the user cache directory), so later opens are
+instant. Unreadable transcripts are counted and skipped.
+
+## Copy and export
+
+Pressing `y` copies the selection to the clipboard over OSC 52, which works
+over SSH, and in tmux with `set-clipboard on`. It copies the command for
+Bash, the diff for edits, the content for Write, the full text of messages,
+and the result for other tools. In the Files tab, it copies all of the file's
+changes.
+
+Pressing `e` exports the timeline as shown (search, filter, thinking and
+expanded subagents included) to `./<session-id-8>-<YYYYMMDD-HHMM>.md`.
+Prompts become headings, tool calls become collapsible `<details>` blocks,
+and subagent events are quoted under their call. You can also export from the
+shell:
+
+```
+snoop export 64f3ec44              # whole session to stdout, without thinking
+snoop export 64f3ec44 -o notes.md
+```
+
+## Alerts
+
+While a session is receiving new lines, the header flags what needs your
+attention:
+
+| Alert | Raised when |
+| --- | --- |
+| `✗ error` | a tool call fails; the header counts unseen errors |
+| `◌ waiting 30s on Bash` | a tool call has no result after `--stall` (default 30s), which may be a permission prompt, since those aren't recorded until answered |
+| `✓ your turn` | Claude finishes |
+| `⟳ compacted` | the context is compacted |
+| `ctx 90%` | the context window passes 90% |
+| `? Bash: npm test` | the session asks for permission (needs the hooks) |
+
+Any key hides the alert, and pressing `!` jumps to it. Lines already in the
+transcript when it opens never raise alerts.
+
+```
+snoop --follow --bell                    # ring the bell on errors, turn ends and permission requests
+snoop --live --notify                    # a desktop notification when any session needs you
+snoop --follow --bell --alerts error,stall,turn,compact,ctx,ask
+snoop --stall 2m                         # 0 disables the waiting alert
+```
+
+The live board raises the same alerts for every session on it, prefixed with
+the project (`api: ✓ your turn`).
+
+With `--notify`, snoop sends a desktop notification naming the session and
+what happened (`api · Fix the flaky test` / `Your turn · finished after
+2m10s`), so you can work elsewhere and come back when a session needs you. It
+picks one way to deliver them:
+
+| Where snoop runs | Notification |
+| --- | --- |
+| iTerm2, WezTerm, Ghostty, kitty | the terminal's own (clicking it focuses the tab) |
+| over SSH | the terminal's own, so it shows on your machine, not the server |
+| WSL | a Windows toast, through `powershell.exe` |
+| macOS, other terminals | `osascript` |
+| Linux desktop | `notify-send` |
+| anywhere else | the terminal's own escape sequence (OSC 777) |
+
+To override the choice, use `--notify=terminal` or `--notify=system`. In
+tmux, let the terminal's own notifications through with
+`set -g allow-passthrough on`.
+
+Nothing is sent while snoop's window has focus (in terminals that report
+focus). At most one notification goes out per session and alert a minute, and
+several snoops watching the same session send one between them.
+
+## Keys
+
+Press `?` anywhere for the keys of the current screen. The full list follows.
+
+| Key | Action |
+| --- | --- |
+| `↑↓` / `j k`, wheel | move (the wheel over the right pane scrolls it) |
+| `enter` / `tab` | focus the detail pane (zoom it on narrow terminals) |
+| `J K` / `ctrl+d ctrl+u` | scroll the detail pane |
+| `/` | search text, commands, paths and results (all words must match) |
+| `f` / `F` | cycle the filter: all, chat, tools, skills, mcp, agents, errors |
+| `t` | show thinking blocks |
+| `n` / `N` | next / previous prompt |
+| `x` / `X` | expand a subagent inline / expand or collapse all |
+| `a` | open the subagent transcript for an Agent call (`esc` returns) |
+| `g G` | top / bottom (bottom re-enables following) |
+| `1 2 3 4 5`, `[ ]` | switch tabs |
+| `esc` | clear the search or filter, then go back |
+| `!` | jump to the latest alert |
+| `A` / `D` | allow once / deny the session's permission request |
+| `y` / `e` | copy the selection / export the view to Markdown |
+| `?` | every key for the current screen |
+| `q` | quit |
+
+In the Tools tab, `space` expands or collapses a group, `enter` on a call
+shows it in the timeline, and `←` and `→` collapse and expand (`←` on a call
+moves to its group). Pressing `E` expands everything (press it again to
+reset), and a `/` search keeps only matching calls with their groups opened.
+
+In the Files tab, `T` switches between the list and a tree of folders. In
+the tree, `space` and `enter` open or close a folder, `←` and `→` close and
+open (`←` on a file moves to its folder), and `E` opens every folder (press
+it again to reset).
+
+In the Diff tab, `b` switches between the uncommitted changes and the whole
+branch, and `B` picks the branch's base. Press `tab` to move between the
+files and their lines, and `J` and `K` to jump between hunks. The keys `c`,
+`v`, `C`, `e`, `x` and `S` work as described in
+[Review and comment](#review-and-comment).
+
+In the picker, `/` starts a fuzzy search and `f` finds across sessions, and
+`esc` clears either. Pressing `c` toggles this project only, `s` switches to
+the summary, and `w` opens the live board. On the picker and the live board,
+`o` sorts by the next column and `O` reverses the order. Search results stay
+best match first until you choose a column.
+
+## Notes
+
+- The transcript format is undocumented and changes between Claude Code
+  versions. Unknown records are ignored, and bulky internal records
+  (`api-request*`, `attachment`, `file-history-*`) are skipped without being
+  decoded, so a 75 MB transcript loads in about 150 ms.
+- It respects `CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR`.
+- Running `go run ./cmd/probe` parses every local transcript and reports
+  timings.
+- The demo GIF is rendered from `demo/demo.tape` against fictional sessions
+  by `demo/render.sh`, which needs [vhs](https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs).
+
+This independent project isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.
+Claude and Claude Code are trademarks of Anthropic.
+
+## License
+
+[MIT](https://github.com/jzills/snoop/blob/main/LICENSE)

package/bin/snoop.js

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Runs the snoop binary from the platform package npm installed beside this
+// one (@jzills/snoop-cli-<platform>-<arch>), passing the arguments through.
+"use strict";
+
+const { spawnSync } = require("node:child_process");
+
+const pkg = `@jzills/snoop-cli-${process.platform}-${process.arch}`;
+const exe = process.platform === "win32" ? "snoop.exe" : "snoop";
+
+let bin;
+try {
+  bin = require.resolve(`${pkg}/bin/${exe}`);
+} catch {
+  console.error(
+    `snoop: no build for ${process.platform}/${process.arch} was installed (${pkg}). ` +
+      "Builds exist for Linux, macOS and Windows on x64 and arm64; if npm skipped " +
+      "optional dependencies, reinstall without --omit=optional, or see " +
+      "https://jzills.github.io/snoop/docs/install/",
+  );
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const run = spawnSync(bin, process.argv.slice(2), { stdio: "inherit" });
+if (run.error) {
+  console.error(`snoop: ${run.error.message}`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+if (run.signal) {
+  process.kill(process.pid, run.signal);
+}
+process.exit(run.status ?? 1);

package/package.json

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 {
   "name": "snoop-cli",
-  "version": "0.0.0-stage",
-  "stub": true,
-  "description": "Temporary package placeholder for staged publishing"
-}
+  "version": "0.2.1",
+  "description": "A terminal viewer for Claude Code sessions: follow one live, or see what any past one cost, changed and spent its time on.",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "repository": {"type": "git", "url": "git+https://github.com/jzills/snoop.git"},
+  "homepage": "https://jzills.github.io/snoop/",
+  "keywords": ["claude", "claude-code", "agents", "tui", "terminal"],
+  "bin": {"snoop": "bin/snoop.js"},
+  "files": ["bin"],
+  "engines": {"node": ">=18"},
+  "optionalDependencies": {
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-linux-x64": "0.2.1",
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-linux-arm64": "0.2.1",
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-darwin-x64": "0.2.1",
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-darwin-arm64": "0.2.1",
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-win32-x64": "0.2.1",
+    "@jzills/snoop-cli-win32-arm64": "0.2.1"
+  }
+}