cchat

A small cross-platform tool (Windows, macOS, Linux) to export and import Claude Code chats, so you can move conversations from one machine to another.

Claude Code stores every conversation as a local JSONL transcript under ~/.claude/projects/, and it has no built in sync. cchat lets you pick chats, bundle them into a single .zip, and restore them on another machine, rewriting the project paths so the chats show up again.

Features

• Clickable GUI and a scriptable CLI.
• Pick all or individual chats from a sortable, searchable table.
• Export the selection to one portable .zip (transcripts, sidecar files like subagent and tool output, plus a manifest).
• Import on another machine with a per chat resume folder, so each chat reappears in claude --resume at the right local path after a move.
• Auto-detects this machine and its Claude data folder.
• Pure Python standard library, no pip install required.

Quick start

python cchat.py                                   # open the GUI
python cchat.py list                              # list available chats
python cchat.py export --all --out chats.zip      # export everything
python cchat.py import chats.zip --all --into /path/to/project

Requirements

• Python 3.8 or newer. The GUI uses Tkinter (bundled on Windows and macOS; on Linux install python3-tk).

Notes

• Transcripts are plain text and can contain secrets, so handle exported .zip files with care.
• Resuming copied chats is unofficial and can depend on the installed Claude Code version. Reading the history always works, and cchat never deletes anything on import.

Files

• cchat.py engine and CLI.
• cchat_gui.py the Tkinter GUI.