Scrollback — AI skill for Claude Code

scrollback

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Recall past AI conversations across coding agents — Claude Code, Codex, Devin, OpenCode, Qwen Code, Gemini CLI, Kimi Code, Factory Droid, Continue, Copilot CLI, Cursor, Zed, Copilot Chat, Cline/Roo/Kilo, Trae, Qoder, CodeBuddy, Aider, Goose, Antigravity.

Reads each platform's local session storage directly. Nothing is uploaded, no daemon, no index — a query scans the stores in place. Secrets are redacted at read time (API keys, tokens, private keys never leave the store).

Install

npm i -g sam-scrollback    # needs Node >= 22.13 (node:sqlite)
scrollback install         # auto-wire skills + MCP into detected agents

`scrollback install` detects which agents you have and writes a `SKILL.md` into their skills dir plus an `mcpServers.scrollback` entry where the config format is known — so every agent gains recall without you lifting a finger. Preview with `--dry-run`.

For agents that speak MCP directly:

{ "mcpServers": { "scrollback": { "command": "scrollback", "args": ["--mcp"] } } }

Dev

node scrollback.ts    # Node 23.6+ type-stripping, or bun
npm run build                  # tsc → dist/

Commands

scrollback doctor                              # detected sources + counts
scrollback projects [--since YYYY-MM-DD]       # rank project cwds by activity
scrollback list [--global|--cwd p] [--since D] # enumerate sessions
scrollback search "" [--global] [--platform p]
scrollback context  [--grep kw] [--turns N] [--around N] [--from N --to N]
scrollback extract  [--grep kw] [--json]
scrollback --mcp                               # MCP server over stdio

Recall is a two-step drill-down:

scrollback search "landing page" --global --since 2026-08-01
scrollback context 94aa7e8b --grep "landing" --turns 3

Session ids accept any unique prefix.

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