ccboard - Claude Code Dashboard

Comprehensive TUI/Web dashboard for monitoring and managing your Claude Code usage.

Overview

ccboard provides a unified interface to visualize and explore all your Claude Code data:

• Sessions: Browse all conversations across your projects
• Statistics: Real-time token usage, cache hit rates, activity trends
• MCP Servers: Monitor and manage Model Context Protocol servers
• Costs: Track spending with detailed token breakdown and pricing
• Configuration: View cascading settings (Global > Project > Local)
• Hooks: Explore pre/post execution hooks and automation
• Agents: Manage custom agents, commands, and skills
• History: Search across all messages with full-text search

Installation

Via Cargo (Recommended)

# Using Claude Code command
/ccboard-install

# Or manually
cargo install ccboard

Requirements

• Rust 1.70+ and Cargo
• Claude Code installed (reads from

  ~/.claude/

  )

Commands

/dashboard

ccboard

/mcp-status

8

/costs

6

/sessions

2

/ccboard-web

ccboard web

/ccboard-install

Features

8 Interactive Tabs

1. Dashboard (Press

1

)

• Token usage statistics
• Session count
• Messages sent
• Cache hit ratio
• MCP server count
• 7-day activity sparkline
• Top 5 models usage gauges

2. Sessions (Press

2

)

• Dual-pane: Project tree + Session list
• Metadata: timestamps, duration, tokens, models
• Search: Filter by project, message, or model (press

  /

  )
• File operations:

  e

  to edit JSONL,

  o

  to reveal in finder

3. Config (Press

3

)

• 4-column cascading view: Global | Project | Local | Merged
• Settings inheritance visualization
• MCP servers configuration
• Rules (CLAUDE.md) preview
• Permissions, hooks, environment variables
• Edit config with

  e

  key

4. Hooks (Press

4

)

• Event-based hook browsing (PreToolUse, UserPromptSubmit)
• Hook bash script preview
• Match patterns and conditions
• File path tracking for easy editing

5. Agents (Press

5

)

• 3 sub-tabs: Agents (12) | / Commands (5) | ★ Skills (0)
• Frontmatter metadata extraction
• File preview and editing
• Recursive directory scanning

6. Costs (Press

6

)

• 3 views: Overview | By Model | Daily Trend
• Token breakdown: input, output, cache read/write
• Pricing: total estimated costs
• Model distribution breakdown

7. History (Press

7

)

• Full-text search across all sessions
• Activity by hour histogram (24h)
• 7-day sparkline
• All messages searchable

8. MCP (Press

8

) NEW

• Dual-pane: Server list (35%) | Details (65%)
• Live status detection: ● Running, ○ Stopped, ? Unknown
• Full server details: command, args, environment vars
• Quick actions:

  e

  edit config,

  o

  reveal file,

  r

  refresh status

Navigation

Global Keys:

• 1-8

  : Jump to tab

• Tab

  /

  Shift+Tab

  : Navigate tabs

• q

  : Quit

• F5

  : Refresh data

Vim-style:

• h/j/k/l

  : Navigate (left/down/up/right)

• ←/→/↑/↓

  : Arrow alternatives

Common Actions:

• Enter

  : View details / Focus pane

• e

  : Edit file in $EDITOR

• o

  : Reveal file in finder

• /

  : Search (in Sessions/History tabs)

• Esc

  : Close popup / Cancel

Real-time Monitoring

ccboard includes a file watcher that monitors

~/.claude/

• Stats updates: Live refresh when

  stats-cache.json

  changes
• Session updates: New sessions appear automatically
• Config updates: Settings changes reflected in UI
• 500ms debounce: Prevents excessive updates

File Editing

Press

e

• Uses

  $VISUAL

  >

  $EDITOR

  > platform default (nano/notepad)
• Supports: Sessions (JSONL), Config (JSON), Hooks (Shell), Agents (Markdown)
• Terminal state preserved (alternate screen mode)
• Cross-platform (macOS, Linux, Windows)

MCP Server Management

The MCP tab provides comprehensive server monitoring:

Status Detection (Unix):

• Checks running processes via

  ps aux

• Extracts package name from command
• Displays PID when running
• Windows shows "Unknown" status

Server Details:

• Full command and arguments
• Environment variables with values
• Config file path (

  ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json

  )
• Quick edit/reveal actions

Navigation:

• h/l

  or

  ←/→

  : Switch between list and details

• j/k

  or

  ↑/↓

  : Select server

• Enter

  : Focus detail pane

• e

  : Edit MCP config

• o

  : Reveal config in finder

• r

  : Refresh server status

Usage Examples

Daily Monitoring

# Launch dashboard
/dashboard

# Check activity and costs
# Press '1' for overview
# Press '6' for costs breakdown
# Press '7' for recent history

MCP Troubleshooting

# Open MCP tab
/mcp-status

# Or: ccboard then press '8'

# Check server status (● green = running)
# Press 'e' to edit config if needed
# Press 'r' to refresh status after changes

Session Analysis

# Browse sessions
/sessions

# Press '/' to search
# Filter by project: /my-project
# Filter by model: /opus
# Press 'e' on session to view full JSONL

Cost Tracking

# View costs
/costs

# Press '1' for overview
# Press '2' for breakdown by model
# Press '3' for daily trend

# Identify expensive sessions
# Track cache efficiency (99.9% hit rate)

Web Interface

Launch browser-based interface for remote monitoring:

# Launch web UI
/ccboard-web

# Or with custom port
ccboard web --port 8080

# Access at http://localhost:3333

Features:

• Same data as TUI (shared backend)
• Server-Sent Events (SSE) for live updates
• Responsive design (desktop/tablet/mobile)
• Concurrent multi-user access

Run both simultaneously:

ccboard both --port 3333

Architecture

ccboard is a single Rust binary with dual frontends:

ccboard/
├── ccboard-core/      # Parsers, models, data store, watcher
├── ccboard-tui/       # Ratatui frontend (8 tabs)
└── ccboard-web/       # Axum + Leptos frontend

Data Sources:

• ~/.claude/stats-cache.json

  - Statistics

• ~/.claude/claude_desktop_config.json

  - MCP config

• ~/.claude/projects/*/

  - Session JSONL files

• ~/.claude/settings.json

  - Global settings

• .claude/settings.json

  - Project settings

• .claude/settings.local.json

  - Local overrides

• .claude/CLAUDE.md

  - Rules and behavior

Troubleshooting

ccboard not found

# Check installation
which ccboard

# Install if needed
/ccboard-install

No data visible

# Verify Claude Code is installed
ls ~/.claude/

# Check stats file exists
cat ~/.claude/stats-cache.json

# Run with specific project
ccboard --project ~/path/to/project

MCP status shows "Unknown"

• Status detection requires Unix (macOS/Linux)
• Windows shows "Unknown" by default
• Check if server process is actually running:

  ps aux | grep <server-name>

File watcher not working

• Ensure

  notify

  crate supports your platform
• Check file permissions on

  ~/.claude/

• Restart ccboard if file system events missed

Advanced Usage

Command-line Options

ccboard --help              # Show all options
ccboard --claude-home PATH  # Custom Claude directory
ccboard --project PATH      # Specific project
ccboard stats               # Print stats and exit
ccboard web --port 8080     # Web UI on port 8080
ccboard both                # TUI + Web simultaneously

Environment Variables

# Editor preference
export EDITOR=vim
export VISUAL=code

# Custom Claude home
export CLAUDE_HOME=~/custom/.claude

Integration with Claude Code

ccboard reads read-only from Claude Code directories:

• Non-invasive monitoring
• No modifications to Claude data
• Safe to run concurrently with Claude Code
• File watcher detects changes in real-time

Performance

• Binary size: 2.4MB (release build)
• Initial load: <2s for 1,000+ sessions
• Memory: ~50MB typical usage
• CPU: <5% during monitoring
• Lazy loading: Session content loaded on-demand

Limitations

Current version (0.1.0):

• Read-only: No write operations to Claude data
• MCP status: Unix only (Windows shows "Unknown")
• Web UI: In development (TUI is primary interface)
• Search: Basic substring matching (no fuzzy search yet)

Future roadmap:

• Enhanced MCP server management (start/stop)
• MCP protocol health checks
• Export reports (PDF, JSON, CSV)
• Config editing (write settings.json)
• Session resume integration
• Enhanced search with fuzzy matching

Contributing

ccboard is open source (MIT OR Apache-2.0).

Repository: https://github.com/{OWNER}/ccboard

Contributions welcome:

• Bug reports and feature requests
• Pull requests for new features
• Documentation improvements
• Platform-specific testing (Windows, Linux)

Credits

Built with:

• Ratatui - Terminal UI framework
• Axum - Web framework
• Leptos - Reactive frontend
• Notify - File watcher
• Serde - Serialization

License

MIT OR Apache-2.0

Questions?

• GitHub Issues: https://github.com/{OWNER}/ccboard/issues
• Documentation: https://github.com/{OWNER}/ccboard
• Claude Code: https://claude.ai/code