How many turns per Claude Code session?

Shows the distribution of conversation depth — how many back-and-forth exchanges happen in each session.

npx cc-depth

cc-depth — Turns per session

  1        ███░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    18  (  3%)
  2–5      ██████████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░   104  ( 20%)
  6–15     █████████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    75  ( 14%)
  16–30    ████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    48  (  9%)
  31–60    █████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    54  ( 10%)
  61–100   █████████░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░    53  ( 10%)
  101+     ██████████████████████████████   174  ( 33%)

─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
  Median:  38 turns/session
  Mean:    263 turns/session
  Peak:    14,169 turns
  Style:   🔄 Loop Runner  (extended sessions or autonomous loop)

  Analyzed 526 sessions

npx cc-depth                        # All sessions
npx cc-depth --json                 # JSON output
npx cc-depth --projects=cc-loop     # Filter by project name
npx cc-depth --help                 # Show help

→ yurukusa.github.io/cc-depth

Drag in your ~/.claude folder. Runs entirely locally.

Each user message in a session counts as one turn. This includes:

• Your direct prompts and questions
• Continuation messages (in autonomous setups like cc-loop)
• System-level messages

For interactive users, a typical session is 2–30 turns. Autonomous loop setups show much higher counts.

cc-depth is tool #49 in cc-toolkit — 50 free tools for Claude Code users.

Related:

• cc-session-length — Duration distribution
• cc-momentum — Week-by-week session trend
• cc-gap — Time between sessions

GitHub: yurukusa/cc-depth Try it: npx cc-depth