Message Timeline

Message Timeline

Display a clean, timestamped timeline of the current conversation by reading Claude Code's own transcript file for this project.

What to do

1. Run the timeline script. It locates the current project's transcript automatically and prints the formatted timeline to stdout:

   node "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/log.js" $ARGUMENTS
   

2. Show the script's output to the user inside a fenced code block so the layout is preserved. Do not add commentary, analysis, or summary beyond the timeline itself.

Notes

• $ARGUMENTS is an optional message count (e.g. 50). If omitted, the script shows the last 20 messages. A bare number is the count; any non-numeric argument is treated as an explicit transcript path.
• The script is self-contained: it finds the transcript, validates that the path is a real .jsonl file inside ~/.claude/projects/, parses it, and prints the result. It never reads the transcript with the Read tool (these files can be very large).
• If the script reports that no transcript was found, relay that message to the user as-is — it means this command was not run from a directory with an active Claude Code session.
• Each entry is rendered as [HH:MM:SS] Name: followed by the message text, grouped under a date header, with a blank line between entries.