CCManager is a command-line application for managing multiple sessions of AI coding assistants across Git worktrees and projects. It is for developers working with tools such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, Cursor Agent, Copilot CLI, Cline CLI, OpenCode, and Kimi CLI, and the catalogue entries provide commands and instructions for its workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to kbwo/ccmanager. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kbwo/ccmanager/main/.kiro/steering/tech.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kbwo/ccmanagerWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kbwo/ccmanager/tech)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kbwo/ccmanager/tech"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kbwo/ccmanager/tech/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/kbwo/ccmanager/tech"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/kbwo/ccmanager/tech.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.01317 | $0.01317 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00527 | $0.00527 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00263 | $0.00263 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00132 | $0.00132 |
Grade A, and why
ccmanager tech.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 169 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Technology Stack
Architecture
Type: Terminal User Interface (TUI) Application Pattern: React-based CLI with PTY (pseudoterminal) process management Deployment: npm package distributed globally or run via npx
High-level Design
- Frontend: React components rendered to terminal via Ink
- Process Management: node-pty for spawning and managing AI assistant processes
- State Management: React hooks and context for session orchestration
- Terminal Emulation: @xterm/headless for processing terminal output
Core Technologies
Runtime & Language
- Node.js: >=16 required
- TypeScript: ^5.0.3 with strict type checking
- Type Configuration: Extends @sindresorhus/tsconfig
UI Framework
- Ink: ^4.1.0 - React for CLIs, renders components to terminal
- ink-select-input: ^5.0.0 - Menu selection component
- ink-text-input: ^5.0.1 - Text input fields for forms
Terminal & Process Management
- node-pty: ^1.0.0 - PTY (pseudoterminal) interface for spawning processes
- @xterm/headless: ^5.5.0 - Terminal emulator without DOM
- strip-ansi: ^7.1.0 - ANSI escape code processing
Error Handling
- effect: ^3.18.2 - Type-safe, composable error handling with Effect-ts
CLI Parsing
- meow: ^11.0.0 - CLI argument parsing with help text generation
Build & Development Tools
- TypeScript Compiler: tsc for building and watch mode
- Vitest: ^3.2.2 - Modern test framework with native ESM support
- ESLint: ^9.28.0 - Modern flat config with TypeScript support
- Prettier: ^3.0.0 - Code formatting
Testing Stack
- vitest: Unit and integration testing
- ink-testing-library: ^3.0.0 - Testing utilities for Ink components
- @types/node: TypeScript definitions for Node.js
Development Environment
Required Tools
- Node.js 16 or higher
- npm (package manager)
- Git (for worktree operations)
Optional Tools
- Claude Code CLI (
claudecommand) - Gemini CLI (
geminicommand) - Docker/Devcontainer CLI (for container integration)
- tmux or similar (optional, not required unlike Claude Squad)
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 169 lines · 1,317 tokens per session scan A 2e38a5c83a55
ccmanager tech.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository kbwo/ccmanager (1,266 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,317 tokens to every session, about $0.0053 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-06.
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