Your terminal as a private,
searchable ChatGPT

What you get

• Local & private

  Every conversation is stored as plaintext on your own machine under ~/chats/. No web UI, no export buttons, no cloud round-trip.

• Greppable history

  cchat search runs ripgrep across every transcript and groups matches by session — recall a fact from any past chat in seconds.

• Self-contained sessions

  Each chat is its own folder: the raw JSONL log, a clean markdown transcript, a meta.json, and any files the assistant created.

• Zero lock-in

  A single self-contained bash script — no build step. The on-disk format is index-ready for a future SQLite full-text search.

Install

cchat is a single bash script. Clone it, make it executable, and symlink it onto your PATH.

git clone git@github.com:Dzhuneyt/cchat.git
cd cchat
chmod +x cchat
ln -s "$PWD/cchat" /usr/local/bin/cchat

Needs claude (sessions), jq (transcript rendering) and rg / ripgrep (search).

Usage

cchat                   # prompts for a topic, then opens the session
cchat "tax deadline"    # skip the prompt — topic preset from the argument
cchat search "deadline" # ripgrep across every transcript, grouped by session

End the session the way you normally exit Claude Code; the transcript is archived automatically and the saved folder path is printed. Full details live in the README.