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 Talk to the Claude Code instances running on your machine, from any Node application: send messages, register as a named peer other sessions can discover and message, receive replies and delivery receipts, and subscribe to idle notifications. Ships a REST facade you can run with `npx cc-peer`.
 
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 > **Unofficial.** This SDK speaks Claude Code's local cross-session peer protocol, which was reverse-engineered and verified against Claude Code 2.1.269. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic, and the protocol may change without notice between Claude Code releases.
 
 ## Why