Local Conversation History

Local Conversation History

List project-scoped local histories without reconstructing ad hoc rg, stat,

jq, or SQLite pipelines. The bundled script performs provider and archive

discovery, schema introspection, filtering, de-duplication, title extraction,

internal-time sorting, and rendering in one process.

Completeness invariant

For a normal Claude Code inventory, the source set is indivisible:

• auto-discovered active homes (~/.claude, profile homes, and the current

CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR), and

• every archive registered in ~/.claude/history-sources.json.

Do not claim that a Claude conversation is absent unless the output shows that

the registered archives were searched. A required archive that is unavailable

is a hard configuration error, not permission to return an incomplete result.

Explicit --claude-home is a diagnostic scope override and intentionally

bypasses the registry; never use it for a completeness claim.

Route the request

• List/recent/show/browse local conversations: run the bundled script once.
• Restrict to one provider: pass --source claude or --source codex.
• Include child workspaces under a directory: pass --recursive.
• List every workspace: pass --all-projects; omit --cwd.
• Include archived Codex threads: pass --include-archived.
• Restrict by conversation date: pass --from-date and/or --to-date.
• Include internal agents or obvious smoke prompts only when explicitly asked:

pass --include-subagents or --include-automated.

• Search inside full transcripts, recover deleted files, or analyze tool calls:

use the daymade-claude-code:claude-code-history-files-finder skill instead.

• Reconstruct and continue a Claude Code session with

daymade-claude-code:continue-claude-work; use

daymade-claude-code:continue-codex-work for a Codex thread.

Run exactly one inventory command

Resolve scripts/list_local_history.py relative to this SKILL.md. Do not search

the machine for the script and do not recreate its logic inline.

On macOS or Linux, execute the script directly when its executable bit is

available; otherwise use Python 3. On Windows, use py or python:

<skill-dir>/scripts/list_local_history.py --cwd <workspace> --limit 10 --language en
py <skill-dir>/scripts/list_local_history.py --cwd <workspace> --limit 10 --language en

Choose --language zh when the user is speaking Chinese. If the user supplied

no path, pass the shell's current working directory explicitly. Use forward

slashes in Windows command examples, while allowing the actual --cwd value to

use the platform's native path form.

Expected output is already presentation-ready Markdown:

# Local conversation history
Scope: `<workspace>`

## Claude Code — 3 conversations
| Updated | Title | Session ID | Source | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-01-15 10:30 +00:00 | Review authentication flow | `019...` | active:main, archive:long-term | — |

Return that output directly, with at most one short observation. Do not run

follow-up find, rg, stat, or database calls merely to restate the result.

Preserve the evidence boundary

Treat the command as an inventory, not a transcript export:

• Keep the script read-only. It never resumes, renames, archives, deletes, or

repairs a conversation.

• Report titles only; do not paste raw JSONL or full prompts unless the user asks

for a specific session afterward.

• Keep every displayed timestamp's explicit timezone offset.
• For Claude Code, treat the minimum and maximum valid top-level timestamp

values across the JSONL as the session range. Never substitute file mtime:

copying or migrating an archive changes mtime without changing conversation

time.

• For Codex, prefer the state database's internal created/updated fields. If the

database is unavailable, compute the rollout range from internal top-level

event timestamps plus session_meta.payload.timestamp; never use rollout

mtime or database-file mtime as chronology.

• A date-only filter means the whole local calendar day. A datetime filter must

include Z or an explicit UTC offset. Sessions without internal timestamps

are excluded with a visible warning while a date filter is active.

• Preserve provider labels and session IDs exactly as printed.
• State warnings from the script instead of silently hiding a missing,

unreadable, or unsupported store.

• Do not claim Claude Desktop native chats are included. The Claude source here

is Claude Code history; Codex covers local Codex CLI/Desktop thread stores.

Handle source configuration and failures

The script honors CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR and CODEX_HOME. Register durable Claude

archives once in ~/.claude/history-sources.json; the default command then

searches them on every run. Use --history-sources <file> to test another

registry. Use --claude-home <dir> or --codex-home <dir> only when the user

explicitly requests an exact single-store diagnostic scope.

If no conversations appear, use the diagnostics already printed by the same

command. Read

references/storage_and_portability.md

only when the format or path needs diagnosis; it documents the source registry,

inspected stores, internal-time policy, Windows path normalization, and known

boundaries.

Maintainer verification

In the source repository, daymade-claude-code/_conversation_core/ is the code

SSOT shared by this skill, claude-code-history-files-finder,

continue-claude-work, and continue-codex-work. The four skills remain

self-contained at install time because sync_core.py copies that package into

each scripts/_core/. Never edit a bundled _core copy directly.

After changing shared code, synchronize and verify all four bundles, then run

this skill's standard-library regression suite:

uv run python ../sync_core.py sync
uv run python ../sync_core.py check
python -m unittest discover -s tests -p "test_*.py"

The test suite builds isolated Claude and Codex fixtures, including SQLite and

raw-JSONL paths, so it never depends on the maintainer's personal conversation

content. Development trigger cases live in evals/evals.json.