Claude Code project switcher

To work on a project, one must run claude in the project directory. That can be a lot of cd.

So I've made a helper for that.

I type cc in the terminal. This opens a project switcher:

Current: /Users/ph/Documents/www/AI Wow/wow.pjh.is
Press Enter to start here, or select:

Projects:
  1. AI Wow blog
  2. Claude Skills
  3. Plans and reviews
  4. [many other projects...]

Recent:
  5. /Users/ph/.claude/hooks/bash-safety
  6. /Users/ph/Documents/Projects/inbox-when-ready

  ^A all recent  ^Z archived (3)  ^C quit

I press a number and hit Enter. The helper changes directory and launches Claude.

The "projects" list is populated from my projects.yaml file. ¹ The "recents" list contains non-project directories where I recently ran claude (for example, my tries).

Setup

Add this to your .zshrc:

cc() {
    local result
    result=$(python3 ~/.claude/scripts/claude_launcher.py "$PWD")
    local exit_code=$?

    if [ $exit_code -eq 0 ] && [ -n "$result" ] && [ -d "$result" ]; then
        echo "$result" >> ~/.cc_recent_dirs
        cd "$result" && claude
    fi
}

And the claude_launcher.py script is here.

Footnotes

Managed by my project-management plugin. ↩