# Claude Code Monitor

Internal SmartGift build. Local-first dashboard for Claude Code: hooks POST every
tool call to an Express + SQLite server, a React UI updates over WebSocket, and
**lanes** track parallel agent work through a pipeline.

Internal build — all rights reserved.

## What it does

- **Sessions, agents, events.** Everything Claude Code emits, recorded and
  searchable: tool calls, token usage, cost, subagent trees, transcripts.
- **Lanes.** One lane per working directory, surviving session restarts. A lane
  moves through pipeline stages and the dashboard shows where it is.
- **Stage detection.** The stage is inferred from the tool stream, so a session
  that never calls `ccam stage` still shows progress — rendered dashed amber and
  never as done, because an inference is not evidence.
- **Run Claude from the browser.** Spawn a session in a lane's directory, stream
  its output, send follow-ups, resume any past session.
- **Analytics, alerts, Kanban and a workflow view**, plus an MCP server and a CLI.

## Requirements

Node **>= 20** (`engines` in `package.json`). Node **24** is what the test suites
are verified on — node 25 currently breaks 6 server tests through a
better-sqlite3 ABI mismatch and 20 client tests through a global `localStorage`
change.

## Install as a Claude Code plugin

Two commands on a machine that has nothing but Claude Code, no clone and no
`npm run setup`:

```
/plugin marketplace add Smartgift-AI/Claude-Code-Monitor
/plugin install ccam@claude-code-agent-monitor-plugins
```

The first session start installs the hooks, boots the server, puts `ccam` on
PATH and connects the MCP tools; it runs detached, so the session never waits on
it. `/ccam-doctor` reports the state, `/ccam-open` builds the UI and prints the
URL, `/ccam-update` refreshes after a plugin update. This path needs Node
**>= 22.5** (no native `better-sqlite3`, so the server uses `node:sqlite`).
Details, including what to delete on uninstall:
[`docs/PLUGINS.md`](docs/PLUGINS.md).

## Install from a checkout

```bash
npm run setup          # root, client and vscode-extension dependencies
npm run build          # builds the client into client/dist
npm start              # serves the built client and the API on :4820
```

Open <http://localhost:4820>.

Development, with hot reload:

```bash
npm run dev            # server on :4820, Vite client on :5173
```

`DASHBOARD_PORT` overrides the port, `DASHBOARD_CLIENT_DIST` overrides where the
built UI is served from (defaults to `client/dist`; the plugin install points it
at its own runtime directory). `postinstall` writes the Claude Code hook entries
that feed the dashboard — do not run it when the `ccam` plugin is installed, or
every event is counted twice.

## The CLI

`ccam` is linked by `npm run setup`; otherwise call `node bin/ccam.js`.

```bash
ccam status            # is the dashboard up
ccam start             # start it in the background and wait for healthy
ccam sessions          # recent sessions
ccam lanes             # lanes with stage and progress
ccam stage <name>      # declare the current lane's stage
ccam tail              # live event feed
```

`ccam --help` lists the rest.

## Lanes

A lane is a working directory the dashboard watches. Two kinds:

- **adopted** — a directory you already had. The dashboard only reads it; it is
  never reset or deleted.
- **managed** — a git worktree the dashboard created under `LANES_ROOT`. It owns
  the full lifecycle and may reset or remove it, behind a three-check destroy
  guard and a counted preflight the caller has to echo back.

```bash
ccam lanes add --cwd /path/to/repo --title "My feature"    # adopt
ccam lanes add --repo /path/to/repo --slug my-feature      # managed worktree
```

The declared stage comes from `ccam stage`. The inferred stage comes from tool
events and expires after `DETECTION_TTL_MS` (default 5 minutes), so a lane can
move backwards between work sessions. Detection never writes the declared stage,
and an inferred node never renders as done.

A lane can also run **its own application stack**, isolated per lane, when its
repository declares a profile at `<repo>/.ccam/profile/` — a `profile.env` of
declarations plus shell hooks the dashboard calls. Each lane gets a slot, and its
ports and per-lane directories derive from it:

```bash
ccam lanes up          # boot the stack of the lane owning this directory
ccam lanes runtime     # slot, ports, service health
ccam lanes logs api    # tail a service log
ccam lanes down
```

Services are fully detached, so restarting the dashboard never stops a running
lane. This is resource namespacing on the host, not a container: lanes run as the
same user and share the network.

[`docs/LANES.md`](docs/LANES.md) has the pipeline model, the destroy guard, the
preflight contract, the Workspace page, `GET /api/lanes/:id/git`, and the full
runtime/profile contract.

## Tests

```bash
npm run test:server    # node:test
npm run test:client    # Vitest
```

Both must be green before a commit; the pre-commit hook runs them plus Prettier.

## Layout

| Path | What |
|---|---|
| `server/` | Express API, SQLite schema, hook ingest, lane and worktree libraries |
| `client/` | React 18 + Vite + Tailwind dashboard |
| `bin/ccam.js` | CLI |
| `mcp/` | MCP server exposing read-only dashboard tools |
| `docs/` | Architecture, API, lanes, database |
| `plugins/` | Claude Code plugins shipped with the dashboard |

## Docs

- [`ARCHITECTURE.md`](ARCHITECTURE.md) — request flow, schema, WebSocket surface
- [`docs/LANES.md`](docs/LANES.md) — lanes, pipelines, stage detection
- [`docs/API.md`](docs/API.md) — REST endpoints (`openapi.yaml` is generated)
- [`docs/DATABASE.md`](docs/DATABASE.md) — tables and migrations
- [`INSTALL.md`](INSTALL.md)
- [`CLAUDE.md`](CLAUDE.md) — the rules an agent working in this repo must follow