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Cctop — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Like htop, but for Claude Code.

How to install Cctop

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open DeanLa/cctop and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Cctop does

Like htop, but for Claude Code. A live terminal dashboard for monitoring all your sessions at a glance.

Alternatives in Development

Claude Swap — Switch between multiple Claude Code accounts, with automatic rate-limit rotation, usage dashboard, and paralle 2k ★
Zoetrope — Watch a Claude Code session as a live flow graph, in your terminal or your browser 584 ★
Health — claude-health Health check and wellness dashboard for Claude Code sessions 327 ★

README

cctop

![cctop](media/logo-small.png)

Like `htop`, but for [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code). A live terminal dashboard that shows all your sessions at a glance, status, context usage, tokens, and latest messages.

![cctop demo](media/cctop-demo.gif)

Install

Requires [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code), [uv](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/), and [jq](https://jqlang.github.io/jq/).

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DeanLa/cctop/main/install.sh | bash

Then launch from any terminal:

cctop

Why

If you're past the "one session at a time" stage but not running a fleet of headless agents, you're in the middle ground where most tools don't help. You have 4-20 sessions open across multiple projects, refactoring one repo while tests run in another, firing off a prompt in a third while waiting for a fourth to finish. You context-switch constantly, lose track of which tab is blocked on you, and forget what that session in the background was even doing.

cctop gives you one screen to see all of them.

What You See

Keybindings

Key	Action
`q`	Quit
`r`	Force refresh
`R`	Purge dead sessions (PID check + staleness fallback)
`F2`	Rename the highlighted session (live, no restart needed)
`s`	Open sort picker (activity, name, status, duration, turns, tokens, tools, files, agents, errors)
`ctrl+p`	Open command palette (switch theme, etc.)

Columns

Column	What it shows
Name	Session display name (custom title or directory slug)
Project	Working directory name
Branch	Git branch (truncated to 20 chars)
Status	Granular activity status (see below)
Model	Model family and version (e.g. "sonnet 4.6", "opus 4.6")
Ctx%	Context window usage percentage
Tokens	Total tokens consumed (e.g. "145k")
Tools	Tool call count
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