A Claude Code request monitoring system that captures and visualizes all API requests and responses from Claude Code in real time (raw text, unredacted). Helps developers monitor their context for review and troubleshooting during Vibe Coding sessions. The latest version of CC-Viewer also provides a server-deployed web programming solution and mobile programming tools. Feel free to use them in your own projects — more plugin features and cloud deployment support are coming in the future.
Check out the fun part — here's what you can see on mobile:
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npm install -g cc-viewer --registry=https://registry.npmjs.orgccv is a drop-in replacement for claude — all arguments are passed through to claude while launching the Web Viewer.
ccv # == claude (interactive mode)
ccv -c # == claude --continue (continue last conversation)
ccv -r # == claude --resume (resume a conversation)
ccv -p "hello" # == claude --print "hello" (print mode)
ccv --d # == claude --dangerously-skip-permissions (shortcut)
ccv --model opus # == claude --model opusThe author's most-used command is:
ccv -c --d # == claude --continue --dangerously-skip-permissions
After launching in programming mode, a web page will open automatically.
You can use Claude directly from the web page while viewing the full request payloads and code changes.
Even better — you can even code from your mobile device!
In this mode, launching claude or claude --dangerously-skip-permissions will automatically start a logging process that records request logs to ~/.claude/cc-viewer/yourproject/date.jsonl
Enable logger mode:
ccv -loggerWhen the console cannot print the specific port, the default first port is 127.0.0.1:7008. Multiple instances use sequential ports like 7009, 7010.
This command automatically detects how Claude Code is installed locally (NPM or Native Install) and adapts accordingly.
- NPM version Claude Code: Automatically injects an interceptor script into Claude Code's
cli.js. - Native version Claude Code: Automatically detects the
claudebinary, configures a local transparent proxy, and sets up a Zsh Shell Hook to forward traffic automatically. - NPM-installed Claude Code is the recommended approach for this project.
Uninstall logger mode:
ccv --uninstallIf you encounter issues starting cc-viewer, here is the ultimate troubleshooting approach:
Step 1: Open Claude Code in any directory.
Step 2: Give Claude Code the following instruction:
I have installed the cc-viewer npm package, but after running ccv it still doesn't work properly. Please check cc-viewer's cli.js and findcc.js, and adapt them to the local Claude Code deployment based on the specific environment. Keep the scope of changes as constrained as possible within findcc.js.
Letting Claude Code diagnose the issue itself is more effective than asking anyone or reading any documentation!
After the above instruction is completed, findcc.js will be updated. If your project frequently requires local deployment, or if forked code often needs to resolve installation issues, keeping this file lets you simply copy it next time. At this stage, many projects and companies using Claude Code are not deploying on Mac but rather on server-side hosted environments, so the author has separated findcc.js to make it easier to track cc-viewer source code updates going forward.
See:
ccv -hIf you need to use a custom API endpoint (e.g., a corporate proxy), simply configure it in ~/.claude/settings.json or set the ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL environment variable. ccv will automatically detect and correctly forward requests.
By default, ccv runs in silent mode when wrapping claude, keeping your terminal output clean and consistent with the native experience. All logs are captured in the background and can be viewed at http://localhost:7008.
Once configured, use the claude command as normal. Visit http://localhost:7008 to access the monitoring interface.
After launching with ccv, you can see:
You can view code diffs directly after editing:
While you can open files and code manually, manual coding is not recommended — that's old-school coding!
You can even scan a QR code to code from your mobile device:
Fulfill your imagination of mobile programming. There's also a plugin mechanism — if you need to customize for your coding habits, stay tuned for plugin hooks updates.
- Captures all API requests from Claude Code in real time, ensuring raw text — not redacted logs (this is important!!!)
- Automatically identifies and labels Main Agent and Sub Agent requests (subtypes: Plan, Search, Bash)
- MainAgent requests support Body Diff JSON, showing collapsed differences from the previous MainAgent request (only changed/new fields)
- Each request displays inline Token usage statistics (input/output tokens, cache creation/read, hit rate)
- Compatible with Claude Code Router (CCR) and other proxy scenarios — falls back to API path pattern matching
Click the "Conversation Mode" button in the top-right corner to parse the Main Agent's complete conversation history into a chat interface:
- Agent Team display is not yet supported
- User messages are right-aligned (blue bubbles), Main Agent replies are left-aligned (dark bubbles)
thinkingblocks are collapsed by default, rendered as Markdown — click to expand and view the thinking process; one-click translation is supported (feature is still unstable)- User selection messages (AskUserQuestion) are displayed in Q&A format
- Bidirectional mode sync: switching to conversation mode auto-scrolls to the conversation corresponding to the selected request; switching back to raw mode auto-scrolls to the selected request
- Settings panel: toggle default collapse state for tool results and thinking blocks
- Mobile conversation browsing: in mobile CLI mode, tap the "Conversation Browse" button in the top bar to slide out a read-only conversation view for browsing the complete conversation history on mobile
The "Data Statistics" floating panel in the header area:
- Displays cache creation/read counts and cache hit rate
- Cache rebuild statistics: grouped by reason (TTL, system/tools/model changes, message truncation/modification, key changes) showing counts and cache_creation tokens
- Tool usage statistics: displays call frequency for each tool sorted by number of calls
- Skill usage statistics: displays call frequency for each skill sorted by number of calls
- Supports teammate statistics
- Concept help (?) icon: click to view built-in documentation for MainAgent, CacheRebuild, and each tool
Via the CC-Viewer dropdown menu in the top-left corner:
Log Compression Regarding logs, the author wants to clarify that the official Anthropic definitions have not been modified, ensuring log integrity. However, since individual log entries from the 1M Opus model can become extremely large in later stages, thanks to certain log optimizations for MainAgent, at least 66% size reduction is achieved without gzip. The parsing method for these compressed logs can be extracted from the current repository.
You can quickly locate your prompts using the sidebar tools.
The interesting KV-Cache-Text feature lets you see exactly what Claude sees.
You can upload images and describe your needs — Claude's image understanding is incredibly powerful. And as you know, you can paste images directly with Ctrl+V, and your complete content will be displayed in the conversation.
You can customize plugins, manage all CC-Viewer processes, and CC-Viewer supports hot-switching to third-party APIs (yes, you can use GLM, Kimi, MiniMax, Qwen, DeepSeek — although the author considers them all quite weak at this point).
More features waiting to be discovered... For example: the system supports Agent Team, and has a built-in Code Reviewer. Codex Code Reviewer integration is coming soon (the author highly recommends using Codex to review Claude Code's code).
CC-Viewer automatically checks for updates on startup (at most once every 4 hours). Within the same major version (e.g., 1.x.x -> 1.y.z), updates are applied automatically and take effect on the next restart. Cross-major-version updates only show a notification.
Auto-update follows Claude Code's global configuration in ~/.claude/settings.json. If Claude Code has auto-updates disabled (autoUpdates: false), CC-Viewer will also skip auto-updates.
CC-Viewer supports 18 languages, automatically switching based on system locale:
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