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Claude Manager

Claude Manager

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Browse and manage Claude Code sessions, MCP servers, skills, commands, hooks, and agents from your VS Code sidebar. Resume sessions, search history, enable/disable MCP, rename sessions — all without leaving your editor.
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Claude Manager

Claude Manager

All-in-one sidebar for Claude Code

VS Code Marketplace Open VSX License

Install  |  Features  |  Settings  |  Compatibility


Browse sessions, skills, commands, hooks, MCP servers, and agents — all from one panel in your sidebar. Resume any session in one click. Manage your Claude Code config visually. 100% local, zero telemetry.


Install

From Marketplace

VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf — open Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X), search Claude Manager, click Install.

VSCodium / Eclipse Theia / Gitpod — install from Open VSX.

Manual Install

  1. Download the .vsix file from VS Code Marketplace, Open VSX, or GitHub Releases
  2. Open your editor → Ctrl+Shift+P → type Install from VSIX → select the downloaded file
  3. Reload when prompted

Or via terminal:

code --install-extension path/to/claude-manager-x.x.x.vsix

Replace code with cursor, windsurf, or codium depending on your editor.


Features

Sessions Browse, search, filter, pin, rename, resume, and fork your Claude Code sessions. Restore your entire workspace in one click.
Skills View global and project skills. Copy names, open files, delete, or start a new Claude session.
Commands 52 built-in commands + your custom slash commands. Copy any command instantly.
Hooks View automation hooks across global, project, and local scopes.
MCP Servers Enable/disable servers, delete entries, view config with masked API keys.
Agents Browse project agents with model badges and description previews.

Sessions

  • Smart grouping — Today, This Week, This Month, Older
  • Filter by project, branch, or date range
  • Pin favorites • Rename sessions • Fork for alternate explorations
  • Resume with branch detection — warns if branches differ
  • Restore Workspace — reopen every terminal from your last session
  • Search across names, projects, branches, and prompts
  • Right-click menu — pin, rename, fork, copy command, export as Markdown, delete

Skills

  • Global (~/.claude/skills/) and project-level (.claude/skills/)
  • Scope badges, tags, descriptions from SKILL.md frontmatter
  • Copy name, open file, delete, or launch Claude

Commands

  • 52 built-in commands from official Claude Code docs
  • Custom commands from ~/.claude/commands/ and .claude/commands/
  • One-click copy for any command

Hooks

  • Global, project, and local scope support
  • Flat and nested hook formats
  • Event matcher and command shown for each hook

MCP Servers

  • Type badges — stdio / http
  • Enable/Disable toggle — writes directly to .mcp.json
  • Delete with confirmation
  • Environment variables with automatic masking
  • Project and global config support

Agents

  • Reads from .claude/agents/
  • Model badges — Sonnet, Opus, Haiku
  • Description previews from YAML frontmatter

Settings

Open Settings (Ctrl+,) and search Claude Manager.

Setting Default Description
Terminal Location editor Where to open terminals — editor (beside) or panel (bottom)
Editor Position beside Which editor group — beside, active, one, two, three
Default Date Filter recent Initial filter — recent, week, month, all
Default Project Filter current Show current project or all projects
Restore Window 30 min Time window for grouping sessions in Restore Workspace

Usage

Action Shortcut
Open panel Click the Claude Manager icon in the activity bar
Focus panel Ctrl+Alt+C / Cmd+Alt+C
Command palette Ctrl+Shift+P → Claude: Open Code Manager

Compatibility

Works on every VS Code-based editor:

VS Code • Cursor • Windsurf • VSCodium • Eclipse Theia • Codespaces • Gitpod

Requires VS Code 1.85+ and Claude Code installed.


Privacy

100% local. Reads from ~/.claude/, renders in a webview. Zero network requests. Zero telemetry. Your data never leaves your machine.


Contributing

Found a bug? Open an issue. PRs welcome.


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