Claude Devtools

claude-devtools

Your Claude is coding blind. See everything it did.

The debugging tool for Claude Code. Read session transcripts, inspect tool calls, track token usage — directly from the Claude Code logs on your machine.

         

  

  

  

  

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The Problem

Claude Code started hiding what it does.

Since v2.1.20, Claude Code replaced detailed output with opaque summaries. Read 3 files. Searched for 1 pattern. Edited 2 files. No file paths. No content. No line numbers. The community backlash was immediate.

But the problem goes deeper than collapsed file paths:

• Thinking steps — Claude's chain-of-thought reasoning is completely invisible in the terminal
• Tool call details — you see a one-line summary, not the actual input/output
• Subagent activity — agents spawn agents, but you only see the final result
• Context window — a three-segment progress bar with no breakdown of what's consuming your tokens
• Team coordination — teammate messages, task delegation, shutdown requests — all buried

The only workaround is --verbose, which dumps raw JSON, internal system prompts, and thousands of lines of noise. There is no middle ground.

The Solution

claude-devtools is the debugging tool for Claude Code. It reads the Claude Code logs and session transcripts already saved to ~/.claude/ on your machine, and reconstructs everything.

What the terminal hides	What claude-devtools shows
Read 3 files	Exact file paths, syntax-highlighted content with line numbers
Searched for 1 pattern	The regex pattern, every matching file, matched lines
Edited 2 files	Inline diffs with added/removed highlighting
Three-segment context bar	Per-turn token attribution across 7 categories with compaction visualization
Collapsed subagent output	Full execution trees per agent with tool traces, tokens, duration, cost
Nothing about thinking	Extended thinking content, fully visible
--verbose JSON dump	Structured, filterable, navigable interface — no noise
Per-project Claude memory hidden in ~/.claude/projects/.../memory/	MEMORY.md rendered as a clickable index of layers; open any layer in your editor
Copy from terminal = wrapped lines, ANSI codes, broken Markdown	Real selectable text, one-click copy on every message and code block

Zero configuration. No API keys. No wrappers. Works with every session you've ever run.

[!TIP] If claude-devtools saves you time debugging Claude Code, leaving a ⭐ on the repo is the single best way to support the project — it helps other developers find it.

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Installation

Homebrew (macOS)

brew install --cask claude-devtools

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