vibe-replay

Turn Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi sessions into shareable, interactive replays.

The problem

AI agents write code in long, complex sessions — dozens of tool calls, hundreds of file edits, thousands of lines of reasoning. When the session ends, all that context disappears. Your PR diff shows what changed, but reviewers can't see why. Teammates can't learn from your prompting. You can't even replay your own session next week.

The fix

One command. One self-contained HTML file. Every prompt, every thought, every tool call — animated and interactive.

npx vibe-replay

Also available as a Claude Code plugin — your agent generates replays automatically during PR creation.

Watch a live demo →

What You Get

All your sessions, one place

Launch with npx vibe-replay -d and see every Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi session across all projects — with a daily activity snapshot, activity heatmaps, cost totals, and project analytics. Search sessions, filter by git repo, tool, MCP server/tool, or skill, expand any session to see its own tool/MCP breakdown, and generate any replay in one click.

Watch the full replay

Pick a session and step through every prompt, thinking block, tool call, and code diff with animated playback. Three view modes — All, Compact, and Custom.

Deep insights for every session

Auto-generated analytics: token burn & cost over time, context window usage, cache hit rates, tool call distribution, model breakdown, and per-turn breakdowns.

Your AI coding wrapped

GitHub-style activity heatmap, streaks, weekly trends, top projects, model usage, and cost tracking across all your sessions. See how your coding patterns evolve over time.

Claude Code Plugin

vibe-replay is also available as a Claude Code plugin. Once installed, your agent learns how to generate replays autonomously — it can find the current session, produce GitHub-ready artifacts, and embed them in PRs, all without you running any CLI commands.

What the plugin gives your agent

• Auto-discover sessions — finds the current session's JSONL file via $CLAUDE_SESSION_ID
• Search past sessions — uses vibe-replay sessions to find Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi sessions by project, provider, or fuzzy query
• Generate PR artifacts — markdown summary + animated GIF + SVG, ready for PR descriptions
• Generate HTML replays — self-contained interactive replay files
• PR workflow integration — agent automatically embeds replay context when you create PRs

Install (recommended)

Open Claude Code, run /plugin, then search vibe-replay in the Discover tab and install.

Or install via CLI:

/plugin marketplace add tuo-lei/vibe-replay
/plugin install vibe-replay@vibe-replay

Agent Skills install (Cursor, Codex, and others)

vibe-replay also ships a portable SKILL.md under skills/replay/, so agents that support the Agent Skills standard can install the same replay workflow without the Claude plugin marketplace.

npx skills add tuo-lei/vibe-replay --skill replay -g

This installs the replay skill globally through the Agent Skills CLI. Cursor discovers global skills from ~/.agents/skills/ and ~/.cursor/skills/, so this is the recommended install path for Cursor users.

Manual install (single file)

If you prefer not to install through a marketplace or the Agent Skills CLI:

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/replay
curl -o ~/.claude/skills/replay/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tuo-lei/vibe-replay/main/skills/replay/SKILL.md

Usage examples

# Slash command — generate a replay of the current session
/vibe-replay:replay

# Natural language — agent auto-triggers during PR creation
"Create a PR with session replay"
"Create a PR for this change, include an animated GIF of the session"

# Direct replay
"Generate an interactive replay of this session and open it"

Features

• Zero config — one command, no setup, no account. Works instantly with existing sessions
• Cross-platform — runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows
• Single HTML file — self-contained, works offline, and makes no automatic external requests. Remote image attachments load only after an explicit click
• Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, Hermes, and Pi — all providers auto-discovered, including multi-file and resumed sessions
• Local dashboard — browse and search every session, filter by git repo, tool, MCP server/tool, or skill, expand a session for its own tool/MCP/skill counts, with activity heatmaps, per-project analytics, and a personal-insights view (including which tools and MCP servers you lean on) across all your coding
• Share & export — GitHub Gist, animated SVG, GIF, markdown summary, or cloud upload. Secret redaction built in
• Sub-agent visualization — see delegated tool calls and sub-agent trees rendered inline
• Comments — leave notes on any scene. Comments persist in the HTML and travel with the replay
• Live mode — vibe-replay live streams a running Claude Code or Codex session into the viewer, pinned to the latest turn as it lands on disk

Supported Providers

Provider	Status
Claude Code	Supported
Claude Desktop	Supported
Claude Cowork	Supported (agent-mode sessions)
Codex	Supported (web search, GPT-5.x models, task timings, memory mode)
Cursor	Supported (SQLite + JSONL + SDK store, auto-discovered)
OpenCode	Supported (SQLite sessions, tools, reasoning, and compaction)
Hermes	Supported (SQLite sessions, tools, reasoning, and compaction)
Pi	Supported (JSONL tree sessions, branching, compaction summaries)
More coming soon	—

How It Works

AI session files  →  vibe-replay  →  self-contained HTML
(Claude/Cursor,      (discover,       (animated viewer,
 Codex/OpenCode,      parse,           insights panel,
 Hermes/Pi)           redact,          offline-ready,
                      transform)       shareable)

The CLI auto-discovers sessions on your machine, parses conversation data from all sources, and packages everything into a pre-built React viewer — one HTML file that works anywhere.

After generation:

• Open in Editor — annotate scenes, get AI feedback, export to multiple formats
• Quick preview — open in browser instantly
• Publish to Gist — shareable link on vibe-replay.com
• Export for GitHub — markdown + animated SVG for PRs

Use Cases

• Vibe coding review — replay your AI-assisted coding sessions to spot prompting patterns and improve your workflow
• Team knowledge sharing — show teammates how you built something, not just the final diff
• PR context — attach a replay link to PRs so reviewers understand the reasoning behind changes
• Teaching & onboarding — create replayable walkthroughs of real coding sessions for documentation or training
• Cost tracking — see exactly how many tokens each session burns, track costs across projects

Security & Privacy

• Self-contained HTML — generated replay files embed viewer assets inline and make no automatic external requests when opened from disk. Remote image URLs are blocked until you explicitly choose to load an individual image. (Gist/cloud-backed replays fetch data from GitHub or the vibe-replay API on load.)
• Secret redaction — API keys, tokens, PEM keys, and sensitive paths are automatically detected and redacted before generation
• Local by default — vibe-replay reads session files from your machine and generates a local HTML file. Data only leaves your machine when you explicitly publish (Gist or cloud upload), or if you log in — in which case aggregated session insights (counts, durations, costs — no conversation content) sync daily to the cloud
• No wrappers, no proxies — vibe-replay does not modify, intercept, or wrap Claude Code or Cursor. It reads existing session logs after the fact

Development

git clone https://github.com/tuo-lei/vibe-replay.git
cd vibe-replay
pnpm install
pnpm dev              # Viewer (Vite HMR) + CLI (auto-restart) — full HMR
pnpm dev:website      # Website (Astro HMR) + Viewer (Vite HMR)

CLI usage requires Node.js >= 20. The website package uses Astro 6 and requires Node.js >= 22.12.0. When nvm is available, website scripts will try nvm use from website/.nvmrc automatically.

See CONTRIBUTING.md for architecture details and development workflow.

License

MIT