wallfacer

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wallfacer

A terminal session manager for Claude Code — see every AI coding session you've ever started, then name, tag, group, search, resume, or delete them, from a full-screen browser or straight from the command line.

Why

Claude Code stores every conversation as an untitled JSONL file under ~/.claude/projects/, keyed by whatever directory you were in. After a few weeks you have dozens of transcripts you can't tell apart and no way to find the one you need.

wallfacer indexes them all — read-only, it never touches Claude's files — and keeps your titles, tags, and projects in its own local SQLite database.

Features

• One view of everything — every session, from every directory, sorted by recency
• Organize — rename sessions, tag them, group them into projects
• Search — across titles, first prompts, directories, projects, and tags
• Launch & resume — start new sessions or jump back into old ones, from anywhere
• Safe deletes — rm moves to trash; only --purge is permanent
• TUI and CLI — a full-screen browser for humans, subcommands + --json for scripts
• Extensible — agents are pluggable adapters; Codex, opencode, Cursor CLI, and kiro-cli are on the roadmap

Install

go install github.com/pradipta/wallfacer@latest

Requires Go 1.22+. Pure Go, no CGO — macOS and Linux. Pre-built binaries are on the releases page; building from source is covered in the development guide.

Two ways to use it

wallfacer is one binary with two front ends, and which one you get depends on whether you pass a subcommand:

You type	You get
wallfacer	The TUI — a full-screen, interactive session browser. Start here.
wallfacer <command>	The CLI — one-shot subcommands for scripts and muscle memory.

They are not separate tools and there is nothing to switch between: both read and write the same SQLite index, so a session you tag in the browser is immediately findable by wallfacer list --tag, and vice versa. Anything the TUI can do, a subcommand can do too.

(If stdout isn't a terminal — wallfacer | less, or inside a script — the bare command prints help instead of opening the browser.)

Quick start

Open the browser and work from there:

wallfacer

Or drive it from the shell:

wallfacer new ~/work/api --title "Fix flaky auth tests"
wallfacer resume "fix flaky auth tests"    # by title or ID prefix
wallfacer search auth
wallfacer list --project api --json        # for scripts

The TUI — wallfacer

Bare wallfacer opens a full-screen session browser: a list on the left, and a detail pane on the right showing everything wallfacer show prints for whatever is highlighted.

┌ wallfacer ─────────────────────── 47 sessions · 6 projects ┐
│ ● Refactor the sync loop to be   │ Refactor the sync loop   │
│   ~/proj/wallfacer  2h  ◆core    │                          │
│   #perf #wip                     │ ◆ core   #perf #wip      │
│                                  │ ─────────────────────────│
│ ● Debug the flaky launcher test  │ dir     ~/proj/wallfacer │
│   ~/proj/wallfacer  1d  ◆core    │ branch  main             │
│                                  │ agent   claude-code      │
│ ○ Untitled                       │ created 2026-07-12       │
│   ~/tmp  3d                      │ size    412 KB           │
└ / filter  ⏎ resume  n new  ? help ───────────────────────────┘

Every row shows its project, tags, directory, age and agent — the same metadata wallfacer list prints. Below ~100 columns the detail pane steps aside and the list takes the full width.

Key	Action
↑/↓ j/k	move
/	fuzzy filter across titles, projects, dirs and tags
P / T	cycle the project / tag filter (wraps back to unfiltered)
x	clear the project and tag filters
tab	show or hide the detail pane
enter	resume — the terminal is handed to the agent; the browser returns when you exit
n	new session (prompts for directory, then title, project, tags)
r / t / p	rename / edit tags / set project
d	delete → trash, with confirmation
? / q	help / quit

The CLI — wallfacer <command>

Every subcommand is one-shot: it runs, prints, and exits. Same index as the browser.

Command	What it does
wallfacer	(no subcommand) Open the interactive browser
wallfacer new [dir] [--title T] [--project P] [--tag t]	Start a new session in a directory
wallfacer resume <ref>	Reopen a session in its original directory
wallfacer list [--project P] [--tag T] [--json]	List sessions, newest first
wallfacer search <query>	Search titles, prompts, dirs, projects, tags
wallfacer show <ref>	Full details of one session
wallfacer rename <ref> <title>	Rename a session
wallfacer tag add|rm <ref> <tag>…	Add or remove tags
wallfacer project set|clear <ref>	Group sessions into a project
wallfacer rm <ref> [--purge] [-f]	Trash a session (--purge deletes permanently)
wallfacer sync	Rescan disk (runs automatically before every command)

<ref> is an ID prefix (resume 5f2) or an exact title (resume "smoke test") — ambiguous references list the candidates instead of guessing. Sessions started outside wallfacer are picked up automatically; there's no import step.

How it works

wallfacer scans ~/.claude/projects/, reading just the head of each session file for its working directory, timestamps, and first prompt (the automatic title). Your metadata lives in SQLite at ~/.local/share/wallfacer/ — delete it and you lose only the overlay, never a conversation. Sync is incremental, so it stays fast with hundreds of sessions.

Other agents plug in through a small adapter interface — see docs/adding-an-agent.md.

Roadmap

• Adapters for more agents: Codex, opencode, Cursor CLI, kiro-cli
• Full-text search across session content (SQLite FTS5)
• wallfacer restore (un-trash from the CLI)
• Export a session transcript to Markdown
• Stats (sessions per project/week, disk usage)
• Desktop app — sessions in a sidebar, embedded terminal, multiple tabs (Wails + xterm.js on top of the same Go internals)

Contributing

See the development guide for building, testing, and releasing. Contributions welcome — especially new agent adapters.

License

MIT

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The name is borrowed from the Wallfacers of Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest — people entrusted with plans too sprawling for anyone else to follow.