Claude-replay
A video-like player for Claude Code sessions
Details
- External ID
- 47276604
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Claude-replay
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- March 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 105
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.915129151291513
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I got tired of sharing AI demos with terminal screenshots or screen recordings.Claude Code already stores full session transcripts locally as JSONL files. Those logs contain everything: prompts, tool calls, thinking blocks, and timestamps.I built a small CLI tool that converts those logs into an interactive HTML replay.You can step through the session, jump through the timeline, expand tool calls, and inspect the full conversation.The output is a single self-contained HTML file — no dependencies. You can email it, host it anywhere, embed it in a blog post, and it works on mobile.Repo: https://github.com/es617/claude-replayExample replay: https://es617.github.io/assets/demos/peripheral-uart-demo.ht...
Enrichment
- Theme
- utilities for Claude and Claude Code
- Vertical
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- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- video player for claude code sessions
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The tool parses local JSONL logs and renders them inside a web-based or terminal UI with a playback scrubber, which is a straightforward frontend and parsing task easily built with AI assistance.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cursor (alternative IDE with Claude integration), aichat search (full-text search tool for Claude sessions), agentlore (team log aggregation across coding agents), claude-code-transcripts (session history to HTML conversion), coding_agent_session_searcher (multi-agent session export tool)
Concerns raised: Cursor logs lack explicit thinking blocks and timestamps, Difficulty finding specific sessions among hundreds, Log dumps with interleaved inputs/outputs are hard to follow, Information loss when converting between different agent formats
Feature requests: Keyboard shortcuts to jump between thinking blocks, Highlight specific block types (Edit, Bash) to show decision points, Helper command to list or search recent sessions, Support for Cursor editor sessions, Observability tool integration for LLM reasoning logging
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Launched 123 days after the earliest competitor.
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