CLI Continues — AI skill for Claude Code

continues

You hit the rate limit mid-debug. 30 messages of context — file changes, architecture decisions, half-finished refactors — and now you either wait hours or start fresh in another tool. **`continues` grabs your session from whichever AI coding tool you were using and hands it off to another one.** Conversation history, file changes, working state — all of it comes along.

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Supported tools

16 AI coding agents, any-to-any handoff:

**Claude Code** · **Codex** · **GitHub Copilot CLI** · **Gemini CLI** · **Cursor** · **Amp** · **Cline** · **Roo Code** · **Kilo Code** · **Kiro** · **Crush** · **OpenCode** · **Factory Droid** · **Antigravity** · **Kimi CLI** · **Qwen Code**

That's 240 cross-tool handoff paths. Pick any source, pick any destination — it works.

Install

No install needed — just run `npx continues`. Or install globally:

npm install -g continues    # gives you `continues` and `cont`

How it works

1. Discovery — scans session directories for all 16 tools
2. Parsing — reads each tool's native format (JSONL, JSON, SQLite, YAML — they're all different)
3. Extraction — pulls recent messages, file changes, tool activity, AI reasoning
4. Handoff — generates a structured context doc and injects it into the target tool

The handoff document is designed so the receiving agent immediately understands what you were doing, what files were touched, what commands ran, and what's left to do.

Usage

Interactive (default)

Just run `continues`. It finds all your sessions, lets you pick one, and asks where to continue:

┌  continues — pick up where you left off
│
│  Found 1842 sessions across 16 CL