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c - Claude Code Conversation Tools

A marketplace plugin collection for working with Claude Code conversations. Three tools, one obsession: never lose a conversation again.

The Origin Story

c started on March 5, 2026, at 3:01 PM, born from the most universal Claude Code frustration: you're deep in a 2-hour session, you hit /clear, and your entire conversation vanishes. Not from the transcript files - Claude Code always saves those - but from your terminal. Your scrollback. The thing you instinctively scroll up to re-read.

The first commit was a single Python script called /c that could copy the last assistant response to your clipboard. That's it. One command, one annoyance solved.

Then it grew. /c:c became /c:this (because naming things is hard). The save plugin appeared four days later when Jason realized the clipboard trick didn't help if the session crashed - you needed auto-saves too. The hooks evolved: PreCompact to catch compaction events, SessionEnd to catch exits and /clear.

The naming went through its own journey. The plugins started as c-copy and c-save, got refactored into a marketplace structure, then the commands got renamed again when Claude Code's plugin system matured. Every name change has a commit message that reads like a small sigh of relief.

Then came March 31. A deep dive into the Claude Code source revealed why scrollback disappears - CSI 3J (\x1b[3J), an ANSI escape sequence that tells your terminal to erase its scrollback buffer. It fires not just on /clear, but during normal rendering when the frame overflows the viewport. The terminal isn't just clearing the screen - it's destroying the buffer.

The solution wasn't to fight the escape sequence. It was to watch from somewhere it can't reach. Tower was born: a Python script that tails the raw JSONL transcript in a separate terminal pane, rendering the conversation in real-time with ANSI colors. Claude Code can clear its own terminal all day long. Tower runs in a different pane. It doesn't care.

The name "tower" came from air traffic control - a place where someone watches everything happening, undisturbed by the chaos on the ground.

Together, the three plugins cover the full lifecycle:

• save - the flight recorder (always on, always writing)
• copy - the radio (grab what you need, when you need it)
• tower - the control tower (see everything, in real-time)

Plugins

tower

Live conversation mirror. Run in a split terminal pane to see your full session in real-time - including after /clear or /compact wipes your scrollback.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c8ea913a-529e-451a-a3e0-632e91d9f2a1

Tower running alongside Claude Code in Ghostty

Setup:

# From the tower plugin directory:
bash plugins/tower/scripts/setup.sh
source ~/.zshrc

The setup script installs tower to ~/bin/ and auto-configures split-pane shortcuts for your terminal:

Terminal	What it does	Shortcut
Ghostty	Adds keybind to split right	Cmd+Shift+T, then type tw
tmux	Split + run tower in one keybind	prefix+T
Kitty	Split + run tower in one keybind	Cmd+Shift+T
iTerm2	Installs a Python script	Scripts menu > tower-split
WezTerm	Adds config comment with keybind	Manual: add to keys table
Warp	Creates a Launch Configuration	Sessions > Claude + Tower
Zellij	Prints the split command	zellij action new-pane -d right -- tower
Windows Terminal	Prints the settings.json snippet	Ctrl+Shift+T

Usage from Claude Code (recommended):

/tower:tower-watch  # Auto-detect terminal, open split pane, start mirroring
/tower:tower-play   # Launch interactive TUI mode with search
/tower:setup        # First-time install: binary, alias, terminal shortcuts

/tower:tower-watch detects your terminal and programmatically opens a split pane with tower running. No manual window management needed.

Usage from the terminal directly:

tower              # Watch most recent session (basic streaming mode)
tower --tui        # Interactive TUI with collapsible tool calls
tower -i           # Alias for --tui
tower --list       # List recent sessions with previews
tower 1            # Watch most recent from list
tower 3            # Third most recent
tower 69f6ac9a     # Partial session ID match
tw                 # Alias

TUI keybindings:

Key	Action
j/k	Scroll down/up
g/G	Jump to top/bottom
/	Search messages
t	Toggle tool calls
d	Toggle diff details
Enter	Expand/collapse tool call
Esc	Clear search
q	Quit

Workflow: