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Chat Seek VSCode — Communication skill for Claude Code

Communication community

Local VS Code search across Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode chats with Laya reranking.

How to install Chat Seek VSCode

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open fstandhartinger/chat-seek-vscode and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Chat Seek VSCode does

Local VS Code search across Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode chats with Laya reranking.

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README

**Point your coding agent at this repository and ask it to install Chat Seek in your local VS Code—see [Agent installation instructions](#agent-installation-instructions) below.**

Chat Seek

Find past **Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode** conversations from a plain language description, inside VS Code.

![Chat Seek demo](media/demo.gif)

[Demo video](media/demo.mp4) · [Narrated explainer](media/explainer.mp4). These videos show the original UI with illustrative excerpts; the current version also has dates, summaries, and resume actions.

Chat Seek searches local user and assistant messages, then uses the [Laya local decision model](https://github.com/receptron/laya) to rerank likely matches. Optional one-sentence AI descriptions help you recognize a chat. Cards show its last activity (“1 week ago”), with the exact date on hover, a readable excerpt, and a **Resume in Claude Code / Codex / OpenCode** action.

Open and pin Chat Seek

Press **Ctrl+Shift+P** (**Cmd+Shift+P** on macOS), run **Chat Seek: Search past AI chats**, and type in the search box. You can also click the **Chat Seek magnifying-glass icon in the Activity Bar** to use the sidebar.

Click **Pin search tab** to keep the editor tab handy. You can right-click the Activity Bar to show Chat Seek if its icon is hidden, or drag its view to your preferred sidebar. If commands do not appear immediately after installation, run **Developer: Reload Window**.

**Resume** opens the matching CLI in a VS Code integrated terminal using its session ID and original working directory when available. It does not automatically submit a new prompt. The CLI must be installed and signed in within the same environment as the extension. This launches the CLI, not a vendor's proprietary chat sidebar. An archived or moved session may no longer be resumable by its CLI; **Read excerpt** still opens the indexed context.

Optional summaries and API keys

Search, indexing, and Laya reranking work without an API key. Summaries a