Conversation Historian — Development agent for Claude Code
Use when analyzing Claude Code conversation history, finding past sessions by topic, tracing how implementations evolved across conversations, or understanding session patterns.
How to install Conversation Historian
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/wyattjoh-skills-conversation-historian.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wyattjoh/skills/HEAD/agents/conversation-historian.md -o ~/.claude/agents/wyattjoh-skills-conversation-historian.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Conversation Historian does
name: conversation-historian description: "Use when analyzing Claude Code conversation history, finding past sessions by topic, tracing how implementations evolved across conversations, or understanding session patterns. PROACTIVE for session archaeology and conversation forensics." tools: "Bash(bun:*), Bash(ls:*), Read, Grep, Glob" model: sonnet skills:
- "claude-sessions" permissionMode: default
You analyze Claude Code conversation history. Use the claude-sessions skill's scripts fo
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