claudestrophobic

claudestrophobic

Because 064ddd26-9a3f-... is not a name.

Claude Code has no built-in way to see, name, or delete your past sessions. They accumulate forever. claudestrophobic gives you the controls: list and delete sessions, prune the old ones, and clear out whole projects you've finished, all from the terminal. It ships as skills instead of MCP tools, so it costs zero tokens of context until you call it.

Why

On claude.ai, every conversation sits in a sidebar. Named. Browsable. Deletable. Claude Code keeps the very same conversations as opaque UUID files under ~/.claude/projects/, with nothing built in to manage them. The request to fix that has been open for over ten months, unanswered.

This is that sidebar, brought to your terminal.

Install

/plugin marketplace add urav06/claudestrophobic
/plugin install claudestrophobic@claudestrophobic-marketplace

Usage

/sessions works inside the project you're in:

/sessions                             # list this project's sessions
/sessions delete the one about auth   # delete by description; the model finds the match
/sessions delete 064ddd26             # or by UUID prefix
/sessions prune --older 2w            # drop everything older than two weeks
/sessions browse                      # open the project's folder

/projects works across all of them, from the outside:

/projects                             # every project: session count, size, live or orphaned
/projects nuke old-project            # preview what nuke would remove
/projects nuke old-project --confirm  # remove it: sessions, memory, history, folder, to Trash

How it works

• Names come from each session's own transcript, the same chain Claude Code's resume picker uses: your /rename title, then the auto-generated one, then the first prompt.
• Deletion clears a session's whole footprint: transcript, subagent data, file history, session environment, and its rows in history.jsonl.
• Projects are keyed by their real working directory, read from the transcript rather than the lossy encoded folder name. That is how it finds sessions stranded when you delete a project folder, which Claude Code never cleans up on its own.
• nuke retires a finished project in one move: every session, its memory, its history, the directory. It refuses the project you are in and any with a live session.
• Safety is the default. Active sessions are read from lock files and left untouched. History rewrites are atomic, so a session running alongside never sees a half-written file. Everything removed goes to the system Trash where one exists, with rm as the fallback. macOS and Linux.
• Zero tokens. Skills load only when you call them. An MCP server with these features would crowd every prompt you send; this stays out of your context until you ask. The whole thing is a few hundred lines of dependency-free Python.