An IDE-style file tree for Claude Code that shows what Claude is doing and where in files
Time Machine
A Claude Code mod that shows git state
Agent Time Machine: a branching timeline of tool calls with shadow-git snapshots — inspect, diff, explain test failures, restore, branch, compare, re-run
0 installs
What this mod can do
- Reviewed at commit 93fa0f7
- Runs programs
- Runs Claude Code's tools, such as Bash and Edit, which still pass the session's permission check
- Writes files
- Reads environment variables
- Sees each tool call before it runs and can block or change it
- Also uses $.session.append, which this page doesn't describe yet
5 more things it can do
- Reads files
- Remembers data between sessions
- Adds the /tm-pane command
- Adds the /tm command
- Runs on a timer
Good to know (3)
- Needs git. Snapshots live in ~/.claude/time-machine, never in your own .git
- /tm restore is a dry run until you add --yes, which rewrites your project files
- If the baseline snapshot takes over 5 seconds, snapshots turn off and the timeline keeps going
Preview
Terminal
⎿ time-machine: Time Machine pane opened (shown in the terminal and the desktop app).
╭────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────✕─╮
│ Session b8e1c0d2 · branch main · 5 step(s) · 1 snapshot(s), avg 40ms │
│ storage: recording │
│ │ │
│ ├── ⓪ baseline │
│ │ └── snapshot 259be7b · 6 file(s) │
│ ├── ① Bash npm test │
│ │ └── ✗ 1 failed, 2 passed │
│ ├── ② Read src/sum.js │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
⚠ time-machine: tm ⑤ · 1 snaps · 40ms · recordingClaude Desktop
What it does
Records every tool call on a branching timeline with snapshots of your files, so you can see any step, diff two steps, find what broke a test and restore.
- What you see
- A timeline pane and a status entry
- Works in
- Terminal and Claude Desktop
- Slash commands
- /tm-pane, /tm
- Uses your tokens
- No
- Changes files
- Snapshots in ~/.claude/time-machine, yours on restore
- Network access
- Only through programs it runs
- Reviewed commit
- 93fa0f7
- Preview recorded with
- Claude Code 2.1.296
How it works
- Takes a baseline snapshot before the first tool call that can change files
- After each Edit, Write or Bash call, commits your files to a separate shadow git repo
- /tm-pane opens a live timeline of steps, with test results and snapshots
- /tm diff, /tm why and /tm restore compare steps, name suspects and roll back
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╭─ CONTEXT ────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ ████▊░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 22% of 200K · GOOD │
├─ STATS ──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
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├─ REPO ───────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ◆ Opus 4.8 · main · 16:21 │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
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████▊░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 22% of 200K · GOOD │ ↓ 44.0K ↑ 1.4K │ $0.41 │ ⏱ 10m 12s │ +128/-34 │ ◆ Opus 4.8 · main · 16:22
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