codetime-cli

Track AI-agent coding time across Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and Pi.

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The official CLI for codetime. It detects local AI-agent installs, wires up their hooks, and ships pre-aggregated session rollups to /v3/agent/ingest — so the same dashboard that tracks your editor time also tracks your agent time.

Privacy: only metadata leaves your machine. Prompt text, command output, source code, and diffs are never imported or uploaded. See Privacy & data collected for the full field-level breakdown.

• Zero-config detection — codetime detect finds installed agents.
• Hook installation — one command wires each agent's hook into codetime.
• History backfill — import past sessions from local JSONL transcripts.
• Incremental sync — watermarked, throttled, runs in the background.
• Multi-machine — every host is a named machine in your dashboard.
• Token reuse — same upload token as the VSCode plugin; no extra login.

npm i -g codetime-cli   # bin: `codetime`

Requires Node.js ≥ 20.

# 1. Copy your upload token from https://codetime.dev/dashboard/settings
codetime token set <token>

# 2. See which agents are installed locally
codetime detect

# 3. Wire up the hooks (auto-detects, or pass --target / --all)
codetime install

# 4. (Optional) Backfill past sessions
codetime backfill import --source all

Identity is sent on each upload via the X-Machine-Id header — a UUID minted once and persisted at ~/.codetime/machine-id. Rename machines from codetime machine rename --name "..." or the dashboard.

Add --json to most commands for machine-readable output, or --dry-run to preview without writing or uploading.

codetime-cli is metadata-only. We never read or upload the contents of your code, prompts, or tool output. Below is the exact set of fields that leave your machine.

Identity & host

• Machine UUID (~/.codetime/machine-id), hostname, OS platform, and the display name you set via codetime machine rename.
• Your upload token, sent as Authorization: Bearer on every request.

Session shape (per agent session)

• Agent name (claude / codex / opencode / pi / amp), session id, turn ids, timestamps, durations.
• Workspace / project name — typically the basename of the working directory the agent was launched in (e.g. codetime-cli).
• The working directory path (cwd) and a derived workspaceId hash. Absolute paths may include your username (e.g. /home/alice/work/myproject).
• Model identifiers (e.g. claude-opus-4-7) and per-model call counts.
• Tool names invoked (e.g. Bash, Edit, Read) and how often they ran or failed — never the arguments or results.
• Token usage: input / output / cache / reasoning, plus estimated cost.
• Prompt character count per turn (not the prompt text).

File activity (per touched file)

• File path within the workspace (e.g. src/cli.ts) and a stable pathHash — useful for dashboards that group by file.
• File language, kind (source / test / config / docs / data), bytes / chars / lines read / added / removed — counts only.

• ❌ Source code, file contents, or diffs.
• ❌ Prompt text, assistant replies, system prompts, or any chat message bodies.
• ❌ Shell command text, command output, or stdout / stderr.
• ❌ Tool-call arguments or tool-call responses.
• ❌ Environment variables, secrets, tokens, or API keys.
• ❌ Filesystem contents outside the agent's session transcripts.
• ❌ Browser history, clipboard, keystrokes, screenshots, microphone, camera — none of that is touched.

Every command supports a dry-run that prints the exact payload without sending it:

codetime backfill plan --source all --json        # see planned events
codetime backfill import --source all --dry-run   # see, don't upload
echo '{}' | codetime hook --agent claude --dry-run

Source of truth for the wire format: packages/shared/src/index.ts (CanonicalEvent, SessionRollup, FileActivityRecord). If a field isn't in those interfaces, it isn't uploaded.

• Stop uploading: codetime token clear removes the token; hooks become no-ops without one.
• Remove an existing machine and its rollups: codetime machine delete --id <id>.
• Uninstall hooks: remove the files listed by codetime detect, or delete the codetime block from your agent's settings.
• Self-host: point CODETIME_API_URL at your own ingest server.

Token precedence (highest first): --token flag → CODETIME_TOKEN env → saved config in ~/.codetime/config.json.

• packages/cli — the published codetime-cli npm package.
• packages/shared — internal @codetime/shared types, inlined at build.

pnpm install
pnpm build
pnpm test

Point the CLI at a local codetime dev server:

CODETIME_API_URL=http://localhost:3002 \
  tsx packages/cli/src/main.ts detect

Link the in-repo build globally:

pnpm hooks:link        # build + link as `codetime`
pnpm hooks:unlink      # undo

cd packages/cli
pnpm prepublishOnly      # bundles shared into bin/codetime.mjs
pnpm publish

See scripts/release.sh for the automated release flow (pnpm release).

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