agentsview 0.20.0

Local web viewer for AI agent sessions

agentsview

A local-first desktop and web application for browsing, searching, and analyzing AI agent coding sessions. Supports Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more (full list).

Desktop App

Download the desktop installer for macOS or Windows from GitHub Releases. The desktop app includes auto-updates and runs the server as a local sidecar -- no terminal required.

CLI Install

curl -fsSL https://agentsview.io/install.sh | bash

Windows:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://agentsview.io/install.ps1 | iex"

The CLI installer downloads the latest release, verifies the SHA-256 checksum, and installs the binary.

Build from source (requires Go 1.25+ with CGO and Node.js 22+):

git clone https://github.com/wesm/agentsview.git
cd agentsview
make build
make install  # installs to ~/.local/bin

Why?

AI coding agents generate large volumes of session data across projects. agentsview indexes these sessions into a local SQLite database with full-text search, providing a web interface to find past conversations, review agent behavior, and track usage patterns over time.

Features

• Full-text search across all message content, instantly
• Analytics dashboard with activity heatmaps, tool usage, velocity metrics, and project breakdowns
• Multi-agent support — Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and more (full list)
• Live updates via SSE as active sessions receive new messages
• Keyboard-first navigation (vim-style j/k/[/])
• Export and publish sessions as HTML or to GitHub Gist
• Local-first -- all data stays on your machine, single binary, no accounts

Privacy and Telemetry

agentsview has no telemetry and no analytics. No usage data, crash reports, or diagnostics are collected or sent anywhere.

• All session data stays on your machine in a local SQLite database
• The server binds to 127.0.0.1 by default and is not network-accessible
• No accounts, no sign-ups, no tracking
• The optional PostgreSQL sync is explicit and user-initiated (pg push), connecting only to a server you configure

The only automatic outbound requests are update checks on startup. The CLI/web UI fetches release metadata from the GitHub API, while the desktop app uses its own native updater to check for new releases. Neither check sends analytics or session data. To disable:

• Desktop app: set AGENTSVIEW_DESKTOP_AUTOUPDATE=0
• CLI/web UI: set AGENTSVIEW_DISABLE_UPDATE_CHECK=1, pass -no-update-check, or set disable_update_check = true in ~/.agentsview/config.toml

Usage

agentsview              # start server
agentsview -port 9090   # custom port

On startup, agentsview discovers sessions from all supported agents, syncs them into a local SQLite database with FTS5 full-text search, and opens a web UI at http://127.0.0.1:8080.

For hostname or reverse-proxy access, set a public_url. This preserves the default DNS-rebinding and CSRF protections while explicitly trusting the external browser origin you expect.

# Direct HTTP on a custom hostname/port
agentsview -host 0.0.0.0 -port 8004 \
  -public-url http://viewer.example.test:8004

# HTTPS behind your own reverse proxy
agentsview -host 127.0.0.1 -port 8004 \
  -public-url https://viewer.example.test

agentsview can also manage a Caddy frontend for you. In managed-Caddy mode, keep the backend on loopback and let Caddy terminate TLS and optionally restrict client IP ranges. By default, managed Caddy binds to 127.0.0.1 and exposes the public URL on port 8443. To expose it on a non-loopback interface, set -proxy-bind-host explicitly and provide at least one -allowed-subnet.

Managed Caddy mode requires the caddy CLI to already be installed. This patch does not automate Caddy installation. Use your normal OS package manager or ask your coding agent to install Caddy for your platform first. Caddy supports Linux, macOS, and Windows.

For privileged ports such as 443 or 80, prefer leaving agentsview itself unprivileged and granting the Caddy binary permission to bind low ports. On Linux, that typically means:

sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep "$(command -v caddy)"

Then run agentsview normally as your user with -public-port 443 or -public-port 80. This avoids running the session viewer as root, which would otherwise change which home directory and agent session data it can see. If you do not need a privileged port, the default 8443 is the simpler option.

agentsview -host 127.0.0.1 -port 8080 \
  -public-url https://viewer.example.test \
  -proxy caddy \
  -proxy-bind-host 0.0.0.0 \
  -public-port 8443 \
  -tls-cert ~/.certs/viewer.crt \
  -tls-key ~/.certs/viewer.key \
  -allowed-subnet 10.0/16 \
  -allowed-subnet 192.168.1.0/24

You can persist the same settings in ~/.agentsview/config.toml:

public_url = "https://viewer.example.test"

[proxy]
mode = "caddy"
bind_host = "0.0.0.0"
public_port = 8443
tls_cert = "/home/user/.certs/viewer.crt"
tls_key = "/home/user/.certs/viewer.key"
allowed_subnets = ["10.0/16", "192.168.1.0/24"]

public_origins remains available as an advanced override when you need to allow additional browser origins beyond the main public_url.

Screenshots

Dashboard	Session viewer

Search	Activity heatmap

Keyboard Shortcuts

Key	Action
Cmd+K	Open search
j / k	Next / previous message
] / [	Next / previous session
o	Toggle sort order
t	Toggle thinking blocks
e	Export session as HTML
p	Publish to GitHub Gist
r	Sync sessions
?	Show all shortcuts

PostgreSQL Sync

agentsview can push session data from the local SQLite database to a remote PostgreSQL instance, enabling shared team dashboards and centralized search across multiple machines.

Push Sync (SQLite to PG)

Configure pg in ~/.agentsview/config.toml:

[pg]
url = "postgres://user:pass@host:5432/dbname?sslmode=require"
machine_name = "my-laptop"

Use sslmode=require (or verify-full for CA-verified connections) for non-local PostgreSQL instances. Only use sslmode=disable for trusted local/loopback connections.

The machine_name identifies which machine pushed each session (must not be "local", which is reserved).

CLI commands:

agentsview pg push          # push now
agentsview pg push --full   # force full re-push (bypasses heuristic)
agentsview pg status        # show sync status

Push is on-demand — run pg push whenever you want to sync to PostgreSQL. There is no automatic background push.

PG Read-Only Mode

Serve the web UI directly from PostgreSQL with no local SQLite. Configure [pg].url in config (as shown above), then:

agentsview pg serve              # default: 127.0.0.1:8080
agentsview pg serve -port 9090   # custom port

To have pg serve manage a Caddy TLS frontend directly:

The same managed-Caddy prerequisites and backend-loopback requirement described earlier for normal serve mode also apply here.

agentsview pg serve \
  -host 127.0.0.1 \
  -port 18080 \
  -public-url https://viewer.example.test \
  -proxy caddy \
  -proxy-bind-host 0.0.0.0 \
  -public-port 8443 \
  -tls-cert ~/.certs/viewer.crt \
  -tls-key ~/.certs/viewer.key \
  -allowed-subnet 10.0/16

This mode is useful for shared team viewers where multiple machines push to a central PG database and one or more read-only instances serve the UI. Uploads, file watching, and local sync are disabled. For managed-Caddy mode, keep the backend -host on loopback and use -proxy-bind-host / -public-port to expose the public listener. If you run plain pg serve without -proxy caddy, then using a non-loopback -host enables token-authenticated remote access and prints the auth token on startup.

The normal SQLite-backed serve mode and PostgreSQL-backed pg serve mode keep separate managed-Caddy state, so both can coexist on one host.

Known Limitations

• Deleted sessions: Sessions permanently pruned from SQLite (via agentsview prune) are not propagated as deletions to PG. Sessions soft-deleted with deleted_at are synced correctly.
• Change detection: Push uses aggregate length statistics rather than content hashes. Use -full to force a complete re-push if content was rewritten in-place.

Documentation

Full documentation is available at agentsview.io:

• Quick Start -- installation and first run
• Usage Guide -- dashboard, session browser, search, export
• CLI Reference -- commands, flags, and environment variables
• Configuration -- data directory, config file, session discovery
• Architecture -- how the sync engine, parsers, and server work

Development

make dev            # run Go server in dev mode
make frontend-dev   # run Vite dev server (use alongside make dev)
make desktop-dev    # run Tauri desktop app in dev mode
make test           # Go tests (CGO_ENABLED=1 -tags fts5)
make lint           # golangci-lint (auto-fix)
make e2e            # Playwright E2E tests
make install-hooks  # install pre-commit hooks via prek

Pre-commit hooks are managed with prek and require uv for the Markdown formatting hook. Install both, then run make install-hooks after cloning:

# macOS
brew install prek uv

# Linux (or any platform; requires Go on PATH)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
go install github.com/j178/prek/cmd/prek@latest
# ensure ~/.local/bin and ~/go/bin are on PATH

The hooks run make lint on every commit and mdformat when Markdown files are staged, auto-fixing formatting issues. If a hook rewrites files, re-stage and re-commit.

Desktop Development

The desktop app is a Tauri wrapper under desktop/. It launches the agentsview Go binary as a local sidecar and loads http://127.0.0.1:<port> in a native webview.

make desktop-dev                 # run desktop app in dev mode
make desktop-build               # build desktop bundles (.app/.exe)
make desktop-macos-app           # build macOS .app only
make desktop-windows-installer   # build Windows installer (.exe)

Desktop env escape hatch: ~/.agentsview/desktop.env (for PATH/API keys overrides).

Project Structure

cmd/agentsview/     CLI entrypoint
internal/config/    Configuration loading
internal/db/        SQLite operations (sessions, search, analytics)
internal/postgres/  PostgreSQL support (push sync, read-only store, schema)
internal/parser/    Session parsers (all supported agents)
internal/server/    HTTP handlers, SSE, middleware
internal/sync/      Sync engine, file watcher, discovery
frontend/           Svelte 5 SPA (Vite, TypeScript)

Supported Agents

Agent	Session Directory	Env Override
Claude Code	~/.claude/projects/	CLAUDE_PROJECTS_DIR
Codex	~/.codex/sessions/	CODEX_SESSIONS_DIR
Copilot	~/.copilot/	COPILOT_DIR
Gemini	~/.gemini/	GEMINI_DIR
OpenCode	~/.local/share/opencode/	OPENCODE_DIR
OpenHands CLI	~/.openhands/conversations/	OPENHANDS_CONVERSATIONS_DIR
Cursor	~/.cursor/projects/	CURSOR_PROJECTS_DIR
Amp	~/.local/share/amp/threads/	AMP_DIR
iFlow	~/.iflow/projects/	IFLOW_DIR
VSCode Copilot	~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/ (macOS)	VSCODE_COPILOT_DIR
Pi	~/.pi/agent/sessions/	PI_DIR
OpenClaw	~/.openclaw/agents/	OPENCLAW_DIR
Kimi	~/.kimi/sessions/	KIMI_DIR
Kiro CLI	~/.kiro/sessions/cli/	KIRO_SESSIONS_DIR
Kiro IDE	~/Library/Application Support/Kiro/ (macOS)	KIRO_IDE_DIR
Cortex Code	~/.snowflake/cortex/conversations/	CORTEX_DIR

Acknowledgements

Inspired by claude-history-tool by Andy Fischer and claude-code-transcripts by Simon Willison.

License

MIT