🍒 cherryfold

Fold, outline, search & copy your Claude Code sessions — right in the terminal.

Long agent runs turn into a navigable outline of collapsible blocks. Jump to any step, search the whole session, one-click-copy any command or code block, or live-follow a running session in a split pane. Pure terminal, zero server, pip-installable.

Structure and navigation for the walls of output an agent produces — fold it down, jump straight to any step, and find what you need without leaving your shell.

Why

• Walls of output become foldable blocks — assistant text expanded, thinking and tool calls collapsed by default.
• Lose the original steps when the chat branches? The left outline lists every step; click to jump straight back. Events hang under each step so you can see where a tangent began.
• Copy the command or code you were looking for in one click (OSC 52 — works over SSH).

Install

Requires Python 3.10+. Check with python3 --version (macOS: brew install python if you need a newer one).

Recommended — pipx (installs the cherryfold command in its own isolated environment and puts it on your PATH):

# get pipx first if you don't have it:
brew install pipx                 # macOS (Homebrew)
# or any OS:  python3 -m pip install --user pipx && python3 -m pipx ensurepath

pipx install cherryfold

Or with pip (simpler, but installs into your user site-packages):

python3 -m pip install --user cherryfold
# if `cherryfold` isn't found afterwards, add pip's user bin dir to PATH
# (pip prints its location; commonly ~/.local/bin or ~/Library/Python/3.x/bin)

From source (for development):

git clone https://github.com/rikucherry1993/cherryfold
cd cherryfold
./install.sh                      # venv + editable install + ~/.local/bin symlink

Not on PyPI yet — until the first release, use the From source path above.

Usage

cherryfold                 # read back the current project's latest session
cherryfold follow [path]   # split the terminal and follow a live session beside you
cherryfold view [path] -f  # render in THIS pane (-f / --follow to tail)
cherryfold list            # list sessions for the current dir (--all: everywhere)
cherryfold config          # print the config file path
cherryfold clean           # clear caches
cherryfold uninstall       # remove the PATH symlink (--purge: also config)

path defaults to the newest session for the current directory — or the nearest parent directory that has sessions (walks up like git). Run from anywhere inside your project and it finds that project's sessions; cherryfold list --all lists every session.

Sessions are read from $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR/projects (or ~/.claude/projects by default) — the same location Claude Code itself uses, so it works for everyone without configuration.

cherryfold follow — split + follow

Picks the best split for your terminal automatically (macOS-first; tmux is the cross-platform path):

For a real same-window split on a plain terminal, run cherryfold inside tmux.

Inside Claude Code: from the prompt, type ! cherryfold follow (command mode) in the directory you're working in — a pane opens beside your chat and live-follows that project's session, so you can scroll back through the agent's output without leaving the conversation.

Keys

Settings

Press s for theme (21 built-in) and display density (comfortable / compact), persisted to ~/.config/cherryfold/config.json. The glyphs (💬 🔧 🧠 📨 📋) are editable there under "icons".

Font size is the terminal's job — zoom with your terminal's Cmd/Ctrl +/-; "density" is the in-app spacing knob.

Layout

• cherryfold/parser.py — JSONL → step tree (no third-party deps).
• cherryfold/app.py — Textual TUI (collapsibles, outline, search, copy, follow, settings).
• cherryfold/launcher.py — terminal detection + split/new-window strategies.
• cherryfold/cli.py — subcommands.

License

MIT.