ak sessions tail

ak sessions tail

Stream appended session messages

Synopsis

What it does: Follows one Claude Code session JSONL file and prints messages appended after tail starts.

Who it's for: AI agents, CI monitors, and developers that need a live CLI equivalent of the desktop Sessions stream.

When to use it: Use while Claude Code is actively writing to a session file. Use Ctrl-C or cancel the process to stop.

Examples: ak sessions tail myapp session-abc ak sessions tail myapp session-abc --json

What changes on disk: Read-only. Tails the selected ~/.claude session JSONL file.

Output modes: pretty default on TTY (colors, ASCII markers) plain auto when stdout piped or --no-interactive json --json (single-object envelope, NDJSON-safe)

Exit codes: 0 success 1 runtime error 2 invalid flags 3 user-cancel (SIGINT, prompt-cancel)

ak sessions tail <project> <session-id> [flags]

Options

  -h, --help             help for tail
      --json             Emit machine-readable JSON (implies --no-interactive)
      --no-interactive   Disable interactive prompts (CI-safe)
  -q, --quiet            Suppress non-error output on stderr
  -V, --verbose          Extra diagnostic output on stderr (loses to --quiet)
  -y, --yes              Assume yes for all prompts

SEE ALSO

• ak sessions - Inspect and maintain local coding-agent sessions