CCBot

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Control Claude Code sessions remotely via Telegram — monitor, interact, and manage AI coding sessions running in tmux.

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Why CCBot?

Claude Code runs in your terminal. When you step away from your computer — commuting, on the couch, or just away from your desk — the session keeps working, but you lose visibility and control.

CCBot solves this by letting you seamlessly continue the same session from Telegram. The key insight is that it operates on tmux, not the Claude Code SDK. Your Claude Code process stays exactly where it is, in a tmux window on your machine. CCBot simply reads its output and sends keystrokes to it. This means:

• Switch from desktop to phone mid-conversation — Claude is working on a refactor? Walk away, keep monitoring and responding from Telegram.
• Switch back to desktop anytime — Since the tmux session was never interrupted, just tmux attach and you're back in the terminal with full scrollback and context.
• Run multiple sessions in parallel — Each Telegram topic maps to a separate tmux window, so you can juggle multiple projects from one chat group.

Other Telegram bots for Claude Code typically wrap the Claude Code SDK to create separate API sessions. Those sessions are isolated — you can't resume them in your terminal. CCBot takes a different approach: it's just a thin control layer over tmux, so the terminal remains the source of truth and you never lose the ability to switch back.

In fact, CCBot itself was built this way — iterating on itself through Claude Code sessions monitored and driven from Telegram via CCBot.

Features

• Topic-based sessions — Each Telegram topic maps 1:1 to a tmux window and Claude session
• Real-time notifications — Get Telegram messages for assistant responses, thinking content, tool use/result, and local command output
• Interactive UI — Navigate AskUserQuestion, ExitPlanMode, and Permission Prompts via inline keyboard
• Send messages — Forward text to Claude Code via tmux keystrokes
• Slash command forwarding — Send any /command directly to Claude Code (e.g. /clear, /compact, /cost)
• Create new sessions — Start Claude Code sessions from Telegram via directory browser
• Kill sessions — Close a topic to auto-kill the associated tmux window
• Message history — Browse conversation history with pagination (newest first)
• Hook-based session tracking — Auto-associates tmux windows with Claude sessions via SessionStart hook
• Persistent state — Thread bindings and read offsets survive restarts

Prerequisites

• tmux — must be installed and available in PATH
• Claude Code — the CLI tool (claude) must be installed

Installation

Option 1: Install from GitHub (Recommended)

# Using uv (recommended)
uv tool install git+https://github.com/six-ddc/ccmux.git

# Or using pipx
pipx install git+https://github.com/six-ddc/ccmux.git

Option 2: Install from source

git clone https://github.com/six-ddc/ccmux.git
cd ccmux
uv sync

Configuration

1. Create a Telegram bot and enable Threaded Mode:

1. Chat with @BotFather to create a new bot and get your bot token
2. Open @BotFather's profile page, tap Open App to launch the mini app
3. Select your bot, then go to Settings > Bot Settings
4. Enable Threaded Mode

2. Configure environment variables:

Create ~/.ccbot/.env:

TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=your_bot_token_here
ALLOWED_USERS=your_telegram_user_id

Required:

Variable	Description
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN	Bot token from @BotFather
ALLOWED_USERS	Comma-separated Telegram user IDs

Optional:

Variable	Default	Description
CCBOT_DIR	~/.ccbot	Config/state directory (.env loaded from here)
TMUX_SESSION_NAME	ccbot	Tmux session name
CLAUDE_COMMAND	claude	Command to run in new windows
MONITOR_POLL_INTERVAL	2.0	Polling interval in seconds

If running on a VPS where there's no interactive terminal to approve permissions, consider:

CLAUDE_COMMAND=IS_SANDBOX=1 claude --dangerously-skip-permissions

Hook Setup (Recommended)

Auto-install via CLI:

ccbot hook --install

Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json:

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionStart": [
      {
        "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "ccbot hook", "timeout": 5 }]
      }
    ]
  }
}

This writes window-session mappings to $CCBOT_DIR/session_map.json (~/.ccbot/ by default), so the bot automatically tracks which Claude session is running in each tmux window — even after /clear or session restarts.

Usage

# If installed via uv tool / pipx
ccbot

# If installed from source
uv run ccbot

Commands

Bot commands:

Command	Description
/start	Show welcome message
/history	Message history for this topic
/screenshot	Capture terminal screenshot
/esc	Send Escape to interrupt Claude

Claude Code commands (forwarded via tmux):

Command	Description
/clear	Clear conversation history
/compact	Compact conversation context
/cost	Show token/cost usage
/help	Show Claude Code help
/memory	Edit CLAUDE.md

Any unrecognized /command is also forwarded to Claude Code as-is (e.g. /review, /doctor, /init).

Topic Workflow

1 Topic = 1 Window = 1 Session. The bot runs in Telegram Forum (topics) mode.

Creating a new session:

1. Create a new topic in the Telegram group
2. Send any message in the topic
3. A directory browser appears — select the project directory
4. A tmux window is created, claude starts, and your pending message is forwarded

Sending messages:

Once a topic is bound to a session, just send text in that topic — it gets forwarded to Claude Code via tmux keystrokes.

Killing a session:

Close (or delete) the topic in Telegram. The associated tmux window is automatically killed and the binding is removed.

Message History

Navigate with inline buttons:

📋 [project-name] Messages (42 total)

───── 14:32 ─────

👤 fix the login bug

───── 14:33 ─────

I'll look into the login bug...

[◀ Older]    [2/9]    [Newer ▶]

Notifications

The monitor polls session JSONL files every 2 seconds and sends notifications for:

• Assistant responses — Claude's text replies
• Thinking content — Shown as expandable blockquotes
• Tool use/result — Summarized with stats (e.g. "Read 42 lines", "Found 5 matches")
• Local command output — stdout from commands like git status, prefixed with ❯ command_name

Notifications are delivered to the topic bound to the session's window.

Running Claude Code in tmux

Option 1: Create via Telegram (Recommended)

1. Create a new topic in the Telegram group
2. Send any message
3. Select the project directory from the browser

Option 2: Create Manually

tmux attach -t ccbot
tmux new-window -n myproject -c ~/Code/myproject
# Then start Claude Code in the new window
claude

The window must be in the ccbot tmux session (configurable via TMUX_SESSION_NAME). The hook will automatically register it in session_map.json when Claude starts.

Data Storage

Path	Description
$CCBOT_DIR/state.json	Thread bindings, window states, display names, and per-user read offsets
$CCBOT_DIR/session_map.json	Hook-generated {tmux_session:window_id: {session_id, cwd, window_name}} mappings
$CCBOT_DIR/monitor_state.json	Monitor byte offsets per session (prevents duplicate notifications)
~/.claude/projects/	Claude Code session data (read-only)

File Structure

src/ccbot/
├── __init__.py            # Package entry point
├── main.py                # CLI dispatcher (hook subcommand + bot bootstrap)
├── hook.py                # Hook subcommand for session tracking (+ --install)
├── config.py              # Configuration from environment variables
├── bot.py                 # Telegram bot setup, command handlers, topic routing
├── session.py             # Session management, state persistence, message history
├── session_monitor.py     # JSONL file monitoring (polling + change detection)
├── monitor_state.py       # Monitor state persistence (byte offsets)
├── transcript_parser.py   # Claude Code JSONL transcript parsing
├── terminal_parser.py     # Terminal pane parsing (interactive UI + status line)
├── markdown_v2.py         # Markdown → Telegram MarkdownV2 conversion
├── telegram_sender.py     # Message splitting + synchronous HTTP send
├── screenshot.py          # Terminal text → PNG image with ANSI color support
├── utils.py               # Shared utilities (atomic JSON writes, JSONL helpers)
├── tmux_manager.py        # Tmux window management (list, create, send keys, kill)
├── fonts/                 # Bundled fonts for screenshot rendering
└── handlers/
    ├── __init__.py        # Handler module exports
    ├── callback_data.py   # Callback data constants (CB_* prefixes)
    ├── directory_browser.py # Directory browser inline keyboard UI
    ├── history.py         # Message history pagination
    ├── interactive_ui.py  # Interactive UI handling (AskUser, ExitPlan, Permissions)
    ├── message_queue.py   # Per-user message queue + worker (merge, rate limit)
    ├── message_sender.py  # safe_reply / safe_edit / safe_send helpers
    ├── response_builder.py # Response message building (format tool_use, thinking, etc.)
    └── status_polling.py  # Terminal status line polling

Contributors

Thanks to all the people who contribute! We encourage using Claude Code to collaborate on contributions.