ccmgr — Claude Code session manager

A terminal UI to navigate, resume, and start Claude Code sessions across all your projects from one place. ccmgr lives in the left pane of a tmux window; the right pane shows the currently-active claude. Each claude session runs as its own detached tmux session in the background, so switching between sessions preserves all in-progress work — no responses or tool calls are interrupted.

Install

pip install ccmgr

Requires Python 3.12+ and tmux on PATH.

Run

ccmgr

If you're not already inside a tmux session, ccmgr will launch one automatically (tmux new-session -A -s ccmgr). The right pane shows the currently-active claude; each claude session also exists as a detached tmux session in the background. Switching sessions in ccmgr re-attaches the right pane to a different background claude.

Keys

In the right pane, keystrokes go directly to claude — full color, full TUI. Tasks keep running even when you switch the right pane to another session, because each claude lives in its own detached tmux session. Press Ctrl-B ← to return to ccmgr on the left.

How it works

ccmgr reads ~/.claude/projects/* (Claude's per-project session history) and lists everything. Pressing Enter on a session does two things: (1) if a detached tmux session named cc-<short_id> running claude --resume <id> doesn't already exist, ccmgr creates one with tmux new-session -d; (2) ccmgr's right pane runs tmux attach -t cc-<short_id> so you see and interact with that claude. Switching sessions just respawns the right pane to attach to a different background tmux session — the detached claudes keep running with all their state intact.

Roadmap

Planned for future releases:

• Cross-session search across projects
• Cost and token-usage dashboard
• Mouse support
• Renaming and closing individual sessions from within ccmgr

Issues and pull requests welcome.

Configuration

Optional config at ~/.config/ccmgr/config.toml:

[claude]
binary = "claude"

[live]
poll_interval_ms = 1000
live_badge_seconds = 60