cc2md 0.2.0

Convert Claude Code chat sessions to Markdown

cc2md

Convert Claude Code chat sessions to clean, readable Markdown — including subagent conversations.

Claude Code persists full chat history as JSONL files under ~/.claude/projects/. This tool reads those files and produces well-formatted Markdown with proper headings, code blocks, and collapsible sections for tool results and subagent conversations.

Install

pipx install cc2md

Or with pip:

pip install cc2md

Or run directly from source:

git clone https://github.com/kcxain/cc2md.git
cd cc2md
pip install -e .

Usage

List sessions

cc2md --list

#    Date                 ID           Title                                              Project
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1    2025-10-15 14:30     a1b2c3d4..   Refactor auth middleware                            dev/myapp
2    2025-10-14 09:15     e5f6a7b8..   Add user settings page                              dev/myapp
3    2025-10-13 16:45     c9d0e1f2..   Debug CI pipeline                                   dev/infra

Convert a session

# By index (from --list)
cc2md 1 -o chat.md

# By UUID prefix
cc2md a1b2c3 -o chat.md

# By title substring
cc2md "auth middleware" -o chat.md

# Most recent session
cc2md --latest -o chat.md

Filter by project

cc2md --list --project myapp
cc2md --latest --project myapp -o chat.md

Export all sessions

cc2md --all --output-dir ./exports/

Scan a custom directory

By default the tool reads from ~/.claude/projects/. Use --dir to point it at any directory:

# Scan a custom projects directory (subdirs are treated as project dirs)
cc2md --dir /path/to/projects --list

# Scan a single project directory (directly contains *.jsonl session files)
cc2md --dir ./my-project-export --list

The directory type is auto-detected: if *.jsonl files are found directly inside it, it is treated as a project directory; otherwise its subdirectories are treated as project directories.

Options

Flag	Description
--list, -l	List all available sessions
--latest	Convert the most recent session
--all	Convert all sessions
--project, -p	Filter sessions by project path substring
--dir	Directory to scan instead of ~/.claude/projects/
--output, -o	Output file (default: stdout)
--output-dir, -d	Output directory for --all mode
--no-subagents	Exclude subagent conversations
--no-tool-results	Exclude tool call results

Output format

• User messages → ## User sections
• Assistant messages → ## Assistant sections with text and tool calls
• Tool results → collapsible <details> blocks
• Subagent conversations → collapsible <details> blocks with full prompt/response
• Code → fenced code blocks with language hints
• Diffs → displayed as unified diff format
• System tags (<ide_opened_file>, <system-reminder>) are stripped

How it works

Claude Code stores sessions at:

~/.claude/projects/<encoded-project-path>/<session-uuid>.jsonl

Each line is a JSON object: user messages, assistant messages (with tool_use blocks), tool_result responses, and metadata. Subagent conversations live in a subagents/ subdirectory alongside the main session file and are linked via progress records in the main JSONL.

Requirements

Python 3.10+ — no external dependencies.