See and change what Claude Code loads in this directory.

Claude Code's instruction files, settings, permission rules, hooks, MCP servers, skills and memory each live in their own file, at one of six scopes: managed, user, project, local, auto memory or a plugin. ccdesk opens in your browser on one directory, lists all of it in the order Claude Code loads it, and names the file behind each piece. When something is wrong, change it on the same page: you review the diff first, and every file ccdesk writes is backed up and can be undone.

$ npx ccdesk

Read the docs Source on GitHub

Local only, no telemetry · Node.js 22.19 or newer · Linux, macOS and Windows · MIT

The load order, stop by stop

Pick a stop to light up what it adds in the screenshot below.

Committed, so everyone who clones gets it

CLAUDE.md
AGENTS.md
.claude/settings.json
.claude/rules/
.claude/agents/
.mcp.json

ccdesk on a project called acme-api: the route strip of scopes with what each adds, which files git shares, and the instruction files in load order with the status and reason for each — The top of a directory page in ccdesk. The project, settings and memories in these screenshots are made up.

Questions it answers

Each answer is a row in ccdesk that names the file it comes from. Open a question to see the row and where to find it in the app.

You want to know	ccdesk shows	In ccdesk
	The ask rule and its settings file, ready to move or remove	Permissions`3`
Read more in Permissions
	The value that wins, and the ones it beats	Settings`2`
Read more in Settings
	Loaded, on match or skipped, with the reason	Instructions`1`
Read more in Instructions
	Each part in load order, with estimated tokens	What Claude sees
Read more in What Claude sees
	Rules that covered no call in this project's sessions, ready to remove	Permissions`3`
Read more in Permissions
	Suggested allow rules, with how often you said yes	Permissions`3`
Read more in Suggested rules
	Each server's status, scope and target	MCP servers`7`
Read more in MCP servers
	How often Claude read each memory, and the ones it has not read lately	Memory`5`
Read more in Memory reads
	Memories found under more than one directory	Memory`5`
Read more in Memory

Every change is a diff you review first

Settings, permission rules, hooks, MCP servers, subagents and memory can be changed. Instruction files open in your own editor.
Settings are checked against Claude Code's own settings schema, and can be written only to files Claude Code reads that key from.
Save writes exactly the reviewed diff. If Claude Code or your editor changed the file in the meantime, ccdesk asks you to review again.
The old file is backed up first. Undo is one click, and Recent changes can restore every file ccdesk wrote. MCP servers changed through claude mcp are listed there with the commands that put them back.

The model setting open in the inspector, with the diff that changes it from sonnet to opus in the project's settings file

Fail a build when a session would read a broken file

ccdesk check lists the files a session started in a folder reads but Claude Code cannot: a settings file or .mcp.json that is not valid JSON, a settings file whose shape its schema rejects, a CLAUDE.md or rule it cannot read. It exits 1 when there are any, so run it in CI. It only reads, and counts only the repository's own files.

Running ccdesk check in CI

$ npx ccdesk check
Claude Code cannot read these files and may skip them:
  .claude/settings.json: not valid JSON (line 4, column 3)
  .mcp.json: not valid JSON (line 2, column 1)

2 problems in a session started in ~/code/acme-api.

It stays on your machine

The server listens on 127.0.0.1 only and needs a token made for each run. ccdesk makes no network requests and sends no telemetry.

Values under env and headers show as •••, even in diffs. ~/.claude/.credentials.json is never read, and ~/.claude.json is never written.

Transcripts are read only to count tool calls, reads of memory files and your answers to permission prompts. Commands, URL hosts and the paths Claude read stay inside the ccdesk process; only counts, times and rule patterns reach the page.

Safety and privacy, in full

Try it on a project you use Claude Code in

$ npx ccdesk

Getting started Reading the interface llms.txt

ccdesk is an independent open-source project under the MIT licence. It is not made or endorsed by Anthropic.