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session-searchlisted

Find context from past Claude Code (CLI) and Claude Cowork (desktop) sessions on this Mac. Use when the user wants to recall something they did before but can't find it , phrasings like "where did I work on X", "find that session where I…", "when did I last do Y", "pull up the conversation about Z", "that time I built/tried/discussed …". Searches by kind (code/cowork), time range, title, working directory, or free-text content across all transcripts.
techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit · ★ 81 · AI & Automation · score 85
Install: claude install-skill techwolf-ai/ai-first-toolkit
# session-search Two scripts in `scripts/` locate past sessions and dump their content: - `find_sessions.py` , discover + filter sessions (metadata + optional full-text grep). - `show_session.py` , print a single session's conversation (user/assistant turns) in readable form. Both read directly from disk , no API calls, no auth. They resolve paths from `$HOME` so they work for any macOS user: - Claude Code CLI: `~/.claude/projects/*/\*.jsonl` - Claude Cowork: `~/Library/Application Support/Claude/local-agent-mode-sessions/*/*/local_*/audit.jsonl` (sibling `local_*.json` holds title/metadata) ## How to use Start narrow, widen if needed. Prefer `--grep` for content recall; use metadata filters to scope. ### Step 1 , find candidate sessions ```bash scripts/find_sessions.py --grep "recruitee logo api" # content search scripts/find_sessions.py --title "rippling" # title substring scripts/find_sessions.py --cwd "Recruitee" # Code sessions under matching cwd scripts/find_sessions.py --since 2026-03-01 --until 2026-03-31 scripts/find_sessions.py --kind cowork -n 30 # 30 most recent Cowork ``` Combine freely. Output is a table by default; add `--json` for structured piping. `--grep PATTERN` is a regex (case-insensitive). It searches message text inside every transcript and prints 1-2 matching snippets per session along with the session row. Use this when the user remembers a phrase or topic, not a title. ### Step 2 , pull full con