Claude Control Center

Browse, search, inspect, and resume your Claude Code sessions directly from Visual Studio Code.

Claude Control Center reads the local JSONL session logs created by Claude Code under ~/.claude/projects. It never modifies that directory, and your session data is not uploaded or sent to any external service.

Claude Control Center is an independent extension and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

Features

Open the Claude Control Center icon in the Activity Bar, then select Sessions in the sidebar.

Browse sessions by folder

View every project folder containing Claude Code session history, including:

• Session count
• Most recent activity
• Estimated cost
• Path filtering

Folders are divided into two groups:

Folders in each group are ordered by most recent activity.

View recent sessions

The Recent view shows active sessions across all folders, ordered by most recent activity.

A session is considered active when its latest message falls within the configured activity threshold.

Inspect session transcripts

Open a session to view its complete conversation.

Transcript features include:

• Search with match count and previous/next navigation
• Automatic scrolling and expansion of the current search result
• Only matches mode
• Hide tools mode for hiding tool-call cards
• Collapse all and expand all controls
• Role and timestamp details for every message
• Token counts
• Model information for assistant messages

Claude Code wrapper markup, including slash-command tags, task notifications, and system reminders, is removed before display so titles and transcripts focus on the original conversation.

Resume a session

Select Resume in terminal to reopen a session using:

claude --resume

The integrated terminal opens in the session's original working directory.

Requirements

Claude Code must already be installed and available through the claude command.

The extension expects Claude Code session logs to be available under:

~/.claude/projects

A different location can be selected through the extension settings.

Configuration

All displayed costs are estimates. Actual billing may differ depending on model pricing, token accounting, caching, and other billing rules.

Privacy

Claude Control Center runs locally.

The extension:

• Reads session data from your local Claude Code project directory
• Does not modify Claude Code session logs
• Does not upload session content
• Does not send session data to an external server

Planned features

The following features are planned but are not included in the current release:

• Plans view for files created during Claude Code planning sessions
• Archived sessions view
• Rename sessions
• Export sessions
• Duplicate sessions
• Delete sessions
• Budget enforcement

Feedback and issues

Found a bug or have a feature request? Please open an issue in the project's repository.