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session-search

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About session-search

session-search is a skill for finding prior Claude-Code or Codex-CLI sessions by work, decisions, or code patterns. It searches with aichat and summarizes relevant findings and session references, with optional inspection of up to three session files.

Key features

  1. 01Search sessions with aichat
  2. 02Filter results by project
  3. 03Inspect up to three session files
  4. 04Summarize findings and session references

Use cases

  1. 01Find past discussions of design decisions
  2. 02Locate earlier work on a code pattern
  3. 03Retrieve session references for a previous task

Install

Copy the command and run it in a terminal.

$npx skills add https://github.com/pchalasani/claude-code-tools --skill session-search

After installing, type/session-searchin Claude Code to confirm it loaded.

Details

From the project README

If you are Claude Code: Do NOT use this skill directly. Use the session-searcher subagent via the Task tool instead - it handles this more efficiently without polluting your context.

session-search

Search and find previous code agent sessions (Claude-Code or Codex-CLI) for specific work, decisions, or code patterns.

Workflow

  1. Understand the query: Identify what the user is looking for (code patterns, decisions, specific work, design direction)
  2. Search with aichat: Run aichat search --json -n 10 "[query]" (use -g "project" to filter by project)
  3. Parse results: Use jq to extract fields from JSONL output (session_id, project, created, snippet, file_path)
  4. Deep dive if needed: Read session files at ~/.claude/projects/*/[session-id].jsonl (max 3 files)
  5. Summarize: Return a focused summary with key findings and references

Run aichat search --help to see all options (date filters, branch filters, etc.) and JSONL field names.

Output Format

Return a concise summary containing:

  1. Key Findings: 2-3 bullet points answering the query
  2. Relevant Sessions: Session IDs and dates for reference
  3. Specific Content: Code snippets or quotes if directly relevant

Format as clean markdown, not raw JSON.

Example

Query: "Find sessions where we discussed authentication design"

aichat search --json -n 10 "authentication design"

Summary:

  • Session abc123 (Dec 10): Discussed JWT vs session-based auth, decided on JWT
  • Session def456 (Dec 8): Implemented refresh token rotation pattern

Constraints

  • ALWAYS use --json flag with aichat search (otherwise it spawns interactive UI)
  • NEVER return raw JSON output to the user - summarize and distill findings
  • NEVER read more than 3 session files per query
  • If no results found, suggest alternative search terms
  • ONLY report information directly observed in files - never infer or extrapolate

Error Handling

If aichat search command fails or is not found, ask user to install:

uv tool install claude-code-tools   # Python package
cargo install aichat-search         # Rust search TUI

Prerequisites:

  • Node.js 18+ (for action menus)
  • Rust/Cargo (for aichat-search)

If user doesn't have uv or cargo:

curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh           # uv
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh  # Rust

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