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Chathist — AI skill for Claude Code

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📜 A lightweight CLI tool to view and export your AI coding agent's chat history.

How to install Chathist

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open shuntaka9576/chathist and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Chathist does

📜 A lightweight CLI tool to view and export your AI coding agent's chat history.

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README

chathist

A lightweight CLI tool to view and export your AI coding agent's chat history—currently optimized for Claude Code.

Built for speed and flexibility, chathist hooks into fzf / fzf-tmux to let you breeze through past sessions with instant previews. It’s fully customizable via Lua configuration and Jinja2 templates, so you can tailor the output to your exact workflow.

![img](asset/chathist-demo.gif)

Installation

Brew (MacOS)

brew install shuntaka9576/tap/chathist

Cargo (git)

git clone https://github.com/shuntaka9576/chathist
cd chathist
cargo install --path .

Getting Started

`chathist` is designed to pair perfectly with `fzf`.

`chathist list` appends normalized conversation text as an extra tab-separated field, so you can search by message body with `fzf` while keeping the session ID in the first column for previews and selection.

Zsh Integration

Add this to your `.zshrc` to get a unified session picker on `Ctrl+H`.

**Session picker keybindings (inside fzf)**

Key	Action
`Tab`	Multi-select sessions
`Shift+Up/Down`	Scroll preview
`Ctrl+S`	Switch to cross-worktree mode
`Ctrl+A`	Switch to all repositories mode
`Ctrl+D`	Switch back to current project

After selecting sessions, you choose an action.

Action	Description
`resume`	Resume the session in Claude Code (`claude --resume`)
`open`	Open in editor with a template

function chathist-widget() {
  local selection=$(chathist list | fzf-tmux --multi \
    --delimiter=$'\t' \
    --with-nth=2.. \
    --header 'ctrl-s: cross-worktree / ctrl-a: all repos / ctrl-d: current project' \
    --preview 'chathist pick {1} --stdout' \
    --preview-window 'right:45%:wrap' \
    --bind 'ctrl-s:reload(chathist list -w)+change-preview(chathist pick -w {1} --stdout)+change-header(cross-worktree | ctrl-a: all repos | ctrl-d: current project)' \
    --bind 'ctrl-a:reload(cha