Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

laszlojamf•about 2 hours ago

The name is pretty ominous if you've read the Three Body Problem series. I don't want my agents planning against me in secrecy.

Just out of curiosity, why did you pick that name? Is there anything wallfacey about this project I'm not getting?

pradiptasarma•about 1 hour ago

Lol, I understand. I was reading the book and I was at the part where the wallfacer project was announced. I did not want to think too much more :D

pradiptasarma•about 4 hours ago

I work in a massive monorepo with a bunch of different services. Over the last month, I realized I was starting Claude Code sessions everywhere. I would hit a weird issue, remember I had already solved it with the agent a few days ago, and then realize I had no way to easily find that specific session. CC stores these as JSON files, keyed by the directory you happened to be in at the time.

I built Wallfacer because I needed a way to search and resume these sessions without messing with the source of truth. It operates as a strictly read only overlay. It just reads the local files, extracts the working directory and first prompt, and lets you manage the metadata in a local SQLite database.

sunir•about 1 hour ago

you can name Claude sessions using /rename. also tmux is your friend.

pelasaco•about 1 hour ago

I see the need for such a tool. I just ask myself: why should I use a brand-new vibe-coded tool if I can just vibe-code my own? One that's fine-tuned exactly for my use case?

That's not a rant against Wallfacer. It's just an observation about the state of the open-source world in 2026...

cik•about 1 hour ago

This is exactly what I did. I create tooling to make it easier for me to manage multiple multi-project swarms across multiple clis (claude, codex, opencode), with queuing, and team sharing.

It was.. surprisingly a little bit under a day's work. It's now heavily tied into our way of working and thinking. This is the upside of the current world.

What used to be time spent in personal, throwaway(ish) shell scripting has now become the same, but for more full fledged tooling. It doesn't need to be consumable by others - but it does need to make my/our life/ves better

literatepeople•about 1 hour ago

In a world where code is cheap, code no longer equals effort. These days, I see consistency, attention to detail, long term support, and community engagement as the signals to read. Not to say this project will never become that, as it may! However until I see those signals as a clear sign of momentum, it's just noise.

pelasaco•about 1 hour ago

Yes, absolutely.

I'll never vibe-code PostgreSQL. I don't want to maintain my own Kubernetes codebase. I happily pay for GitLab Enterprise and Authentik Enterprise.

That said, these small end-user console apps are just noise.

It's so cheap to build something that fits your exact use case that almost everyone does it instead of contributing to an existing project or reading through their AI generated documentation...

And posting it on Hacker News feels like the software developer equivalent of an influencer posting a picture of their lunch.

Show HN: Wallfacer – A terminal session manager for Claude Code, and more

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