January 6, 2026
404s, resumes, and terminal tea
Show HN: ccrider - Search and Resume Your Claude Code Sessions – TUI / MCP / CLI
Find your lost AI coding chats—unless Homebrew 404; some say "just name it and resume"
TLDR: ccrider promises to find and resume old Claude coding chats from your terminal, even letting Claude search them. Commenters flagged a broken Homebrew install and argued it’s redundant because naming and resuming sessions already works, sparking a showdown between “just be organized” and “search everything.”
Another day, another Show HN drop: ccrider promises to rescue months of buried Claude Code conversations from your computer and let you hop back in where you left off—all from the terminal. It offers a text-based browser (TUI), command-line search, and even an MCP server (a way for Claude to look up your past work). The vibe is bold—“Vibe code like a king”—but the crowd immediately zeroed in on a snag: a commenter says the Homebrew install link 404s, and the thread’s energy shifted to “fix the installer” before the party could start.
Then came the bigger debate: do we even need this? One voice argued the built-in “name it, then resume it” flow already covers the core use case—no new tool required. Fans of ccrider countered that full-text search across every message, date and project filters, and one-key resumes are exactly what messy real-life work needs—less discipline, more results. Translation: team “just be organized” vs team “search saves my bacon.”
Meanwhile, the tagline got memed (“king of vibes” jokes) and terminal purists loved the stay-in-terminal flex. Whether ccrider becomes a must-have or gets dismissed as “nice but redundant,” the drama is delicious: is this a productivity upgrade, or just a fancy wrapper around the features we already had?
Key Points
- •ccrider provides a TUI, CLI search, and an MCP server to find and resume Claude Code sessions stored locally.
- •The TUI supports navigation, full conversation viewing, opening sessions in new terminal tabs, global search, and project filtering.
- •Search is powered by SQLite FTS5, enabling full-text queries with project and date filters, and results are instant.
- •Sessions can be resumed via the TUI or CLI, launching `claude --resume` in the correct directory; incremental sync updates new/ongoing sessions.
- •An integrated, read-only MCP server exposes tools for Claude to search and retrieve session data; installation is via Homebrew or from source, with configurable behavior and a core/interface architectural separation.