claude-replay is the MIT CLI that converts coding-agent session transcripts from seven harnesses into one self-contained interactive HTML replay, playable with speed control, diff views, and chapter navigation, and shareable as a single file with zero external dependencies. **claude-replay fills the share slot this category left open: every other member indexes, audits, or dashboards sessions for the person who ran them, while claude-replay compiles a session into an artifact you can email, host, or embed, which is a different output for a different reader.** ## What it is A zero-dependency Node CLI (npm install -g claude-replay) by es617, MIT licensed, not affiliated with Anthropic (843 stars, pushed 2026-09-18, as of 2026-10-07). It auto-detects and reads Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Kimi Code, and Hermes Agent transcripts from their on-disk locations, including OpenCode's export path and Hermes's SQLite store read live. The output is a single HTML file with an interactive player (playback speed, keyboard shortcuts, diff views, chapters), collapsible tool-call and thinking blocks, six themes with full CSS override, and automatic redaction of API keys and tokens. A built-in web editor lets you exclude turns, add bookmarks, and edit prompts before export, `--serve --watch` follows a session as it runs, and a Docker mode mounts sessions read-only for sandboxed conversion; a browser version converts uploaded files entirely client-side. ## Status Active with a quiet recent month: created 2026-03-02, 843 stars, 66 forks, last push 2026-09-18, as of 2026-10-07. Star History Chart The project carries an explicit endorsement listing in the awesome-claude-code directory, which calls the output "fantastic". Its own traction numbers are modest: about 400 npm downloads in the week to 2026-10-04 and no Hacker News thread of its own, so adoption evidence is the star curve and the directory listing, not download volume. ## Strengths - The only output in the category built to be shared: one dependency-free HTML file that survives email, static hosting, and blog embeds. - Seven-harness coverage with format auto-detection, including the awkward cases (OpenCode export, Hermes SQLite). - Privacy handled at the artifact layer: automatic secret redaction plus fully local conversion, so the replay is safe to publish. - The live `--serve --watch` mode doubles it as a minimal observation dashboard when a replay is not the goal. ## Cautions - Smaller scale than the category's spend-auditors and indexers, with modest npm adoption and a one-maintainer bus factor. - The conversion targets the harnesses' current log formats, and every format change breaks it until patched; the seven-harness list needs re-verification each harness release. - Replays are for humans: nothing here feeds analytics, cost audits, or search back into your workflow. - Development paused for the month to 2026-09-18, worth watching before depending on it. ## Pricing Free and open source under MIT; there is no paid tier, so pricing does not apply. ## Compared to - [Memex](../memex/index.md): the indexer that resumes the session you find; claude-replay packages the session you want to show someone else. - [claude-devtools](../claude-devtools/index.md): the local DevTools for inspecting Claude Code sessions turn by turn; choose it for analysis, claude-replay for publishing. - [agentsview](../agentsview/index.md): the retrospective search index across dozens of agents; claude-replay covers fewer harnesses but produces an artifact instead of a database row. ## Bottom line **Recommended for anyone who publishes postmortems, tutorials, or evidence of agent behavior, and for teams that need a session reviewed by someone without tooling installed.** Not for cost auditing, search, or analytics, and not for teams needing many active maintainers behind a dependency. ## Changes - 2026-10-07 - Created. ## See also - [Memex](../memex/index.md) - the resume-in-place counterpart in this category - [claude-devtools](../claude-devtools/index.md) - the inspection-first Claude Code tool this complements - [agentsview](../agentsview/index.md) - the broadest retrospective index, built for analytics where this is built for the artifact - [Session Analytics Feature Matrix](../session-analytics-feature-matrix/index.md) - the category comparison this note joins ## References - https://github.com/es617/claude-replay - repository, MIT license, the seven-harness table with transcript locations, and the feature list (fetched 200, 2026-10-07) - https://api.github.com/repos/es617/claude-replay - stars, forks, created date, and push date for the as-of status (fetched 200, 2026-10-07) - https://es617.dev/claude-replay/ - the web conversion surface, themes, export options, redaction, and Docker mode (fetched 200, 2026-10-07) - https://api.npmjs.org/downloads/point/last-week/claude-replay - weekly download volume for the adoption claim (fetched 200, 2026-10-07) - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hesreallyhim/awesome-claude-code/HEAD/README.md - the directory endorsement grounding the community-recognition claim (fetched 200, 2026-10-07)