v1.3.0
pip install claude-rework && claude-rework installInstall works on every Claude surface
The installer reads your machine instead of asking questions. It finds your OS,
locates your Claude directory, and connects what you have: Claude Code and its
VS Code and JetBrains extensions through four hooks, the desktop app and Cowork
through an MCP server. It installs the optional search libraries and builds your
index straight away, so you can migrate immediately after installing without
opening a session first.
There are also double-click installers for macOS and Windows, and a one-line
curl install for people without pip.
Moving to a new machine or account
claude-rework export memory.zip # old account
claude-rework import memory.zip # new oneThe bundle carries your index, every project with its real path, each project's
context files and notes, the activity log, and a profile of how you work, so the
new account knows you on its first message. It never carries settings,
credentials or tokens. Import merges rather than replaces, so running it twice
changes nothing and a colleague's bundle adds to yours.
Checking it still works
claude-rework doctor inspects every connection and reports what is wrong;
repair fixes it. It catches the failures that are otherwise silent: a hook
pointing at a Python that has moved, a backslash in a hook command that the
Windows shell destroys, an orphaned MCP entry, an index that was never built.
Fixes
Imported history was erased by the first index rebuild. Records that arrive from
another machine have no local source file, and the builder validated every record
against the file it came from, so a rebuild deleted the entire migration. They
now carry a flag and survive both incremental and full rebuilds.
Export could bundle a stale index on a fresh install, because nothing had
triggered an index build yet. It now builds first when the index is missing or
older than your transcripts.
Tested
24 end-to-end checks, including installing, breaking the interpreter path on
purpose and repairing it, exporting, importing into a second account, and
confirming that account can answer a question only the first one knew. Nine test
suites, run on Linux, Windows and macOS with Python 3.10 and 3.12.