Agent Sessions

Local-first, multi-agent coding session archive. Discover, export, and baseline your AI coding sessions across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, and VS Code agents (via the companion router extension).

The Python hub installs as agent-session-hub on PyPI; the VS Code companion is avidullu.agent-session-router on the Marketplace (code --install-extension avidullu.agent-session-router).

New here? → Getting Started (5-minute guide)
Agent-assisted setup? → Agent-Assisted Setup (give any capable agent a prompt; it sets up the archive on a new machine)
Questions? → FAQ
Want to contribute? → CONTRIBUTING.md

Supported Agents

Note: This tool has been manually tested on Windows, WSL, and Ubuntu. macOS support is provided through the same code paths but has not been validated by the developer (who does not own a Mac). If you hit macOS-specific issues, please file a bug — PRs welcome!

Agent	Platform	Via
Claude Code	Windows, macOS, Linux, WSL	Direct Python importer
Codex CLI	Windows, macOS, Linux	Direct Python importer
Gemini Antigravity	Windows, macOS	Direct Python importer
Grok	WSL, Linux	Direct Python importer
DeepSeek V4	VS Code (all platforms)	Direct Python importer
GitHub Copilot Chat	VS Code (all platforms)	Router extension
Continue, Cline, Cody, Aider, Tabby	VS Code (all platforms)	Router extension

Configure sources in sources.toml (copy from sources.example.toml). Platform-specific examples included for Windows, macOS, Linux, and WSL.

Quick Start

# Install
pip install agent-session-hub

# Discover sessions
agent-archive discover --write docs/DISCOVERY.md

# Export to Markdown
agent-archive export --all

# Check status
agent-archive status

See Getting Started for full setup including the VS Code extension, PDF export, and daily automation.

Prefer to let an agent do the setup? See Agent-Assisted Setup — a carefully written prompt that lets Codex, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or another capable agent clone, install, discover, validate, and produce a first archive + structured setup report on a new machine.

Optional PDF output:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py export --all --pdf

Optional raw backups:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py export --all --copy-raw

Raw files land under raw/, which is ignored by Git unless you intentionally force-add it.

Expected Outputs

discover --write docs\DISCOVERY.md refreshes the local source inventory:

• configured source roots, whether each root exists, and matching file counts;
• sample files per source;
• inventory-only sources such as Copilot/ZAI storage locations, even when they are not exportable transcript sources yet.

status prints archive freshness and convergence signals:

• indexed records, visible configured files, new files, and changed files;
• indexed records not visible from this machine, preserved from other machines;
• source counts and inferred origin environments.

export --all writes Markdown archive artifacts and updates the shared catalog:

• archive/**/*.md
• archive/index.jsonl
• archive/INDEX.md

export --all --pdf also writes archive/**/*.pdf when reportlab is installed. The .[dev] install includes reportlab; to check a minimal environment, run:

python -c "import reportlab; print('reportlab ok')"

If PDF support is missing, Markdown export still works. The CLI will report that PDF export requires reportlab.

Some configured sources are intentionally inventory-only. A message like this is expected unless transcript files exist in supported locations:

Skipped sources without extractors:
- copilot-vscode-windows-inventory (inventory)
- copilot-vscode-wsl-ubuntu-inventory (inventory)
- zai-vscode-wsl-ubuntu-inventory (inventory)

After a real export, review only the intended generated paths:

git status --short archive/ docs/DISCOVERY.md

Stage explicit paths only. Do not commit sources.toml, raw/, or unrelated files.

Verify Changes Before Opening A PR

Run CI's gates locally, with CI's pinned toolchain, in a throwaway venv:

./scripts/local_ci.sh

That runs ruff check, mypy, and the test suite with coverage — the same commands as .github/workflows/ci.yml — and refuses to run at all if the script has drifted from the workflow. Use --lint-only for a fast inner loop, but note it is not the CI verdict.

Automatic Enforcement On git push

scripts/pre-push is an opt-in git hook that runs the gates and aborts a push that would go red. Install it once per clone:

ln -s ../../scripts/pre-push .git/hooks/pre-push

The hook gates the commits being pushed, not whatever happens to be checked out. Documentation-only pushes are skipped automatically; SKIP_LOCAL_CI=1 git push and git push --no-verify are the explicit bypasses. Full details, including the drift guard, the parity limits, and the Windows/WSL install path, are in docs/LOCAL_CI.md.

Agent-Assisted Setup

To set this up on a new computer with Codex, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, or another capable local agent, give the agent this prompt from the machine you want to add:

Set up my private agent-sessions archive on this computer.

1. Clone or open the repo:
   https://github.com/avidullu/agent-sessions
   Pull with `git pull --ff-only` before reading files.
2. Install local tooling in a Python 3.11+ environment:
   `python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"`
3. Validate the repo and report results. Use POSIX-style paths in the prompt;
   PowerShell users may substitute `.\tools\...` and `docs\DISCOVERY.md` if
   they prefer:
   - `python -m pytest --cov=agent_sessions --cov-report=term-missing`
   - `python -m ruff check .`
   - `python -m mypy agent_sessions tools`
   - optional/informational: `python tools/agent_archive.py baseline eval --dry-run`
4. Discover local agent stores:
   - `python tools/agent_archive.py discover --write docs/DISCOVERY.md`
   - `python tools/agent_archive.py status`
   If defaults miss a local path, create or edit ignored `sources.toml`; do not
   commit `sources.toml`.
5. Ask me which sync mode I want before enabling it:
   - manual: export only when I ask
   - scheduled: daily Task Scheduler/cron export
   - triggered: filesystem watcher with debounce
   Ask separately whether to generate PDFs.
6. If I approve the first sync, run:
   `python tools/agent_archive.py export --all --pdf`
   Then stage only `archive/` changes. Push directly only if I explicitly
   approve this as a one-time archive sync; otherwise branch and open a PR.
7. Finish with a short setup report: validation status, agents discovered,
   total indexed sessions, new/changed files, origin environments, sync mode,
   and 1-2 promoted guardrails from `baseline/global/` or optional
   `baseline suggest --dry-run` output that show the value.

Do not commit raw logs, `sources.toml`, unrelated files, or merge PRs without
explicit approval scoped to that PR or project.

The final setup report should be plain enough to review at a glance:

Repo validation:
- Tests/coverage:
- Ruff:
- Mypy:
- Baseline eval:

Local archive status:
- Agents/sources discovered:
- Indexed sessions:
- New files:
- Changed files:
- Origin environments:

Sync:
- Selected mode:
- PDF export:
- Last export/commit:

Value preview:
- Guardrail/pattern 1:
- Guardrail/pattern 2:
- Evidence breadcrumbs:

See docs/AUTOMATION.md for scheduled export details and docs/MULTI_MACHINE.md for how indexes converge across computers. For a step-by-step manual checklist, see docs/NEW_MACHINE_SETUP.md.

Adding Agents

1. Add a source entry in config/default_sources.toml or local sources.toml.
2. Add an extractor module under agent_sessions/sources/.
3. Register it with @register("<kind>").
4. Run a dry export with --source <kind> --limit 1 --dry-run.

Baseline Status And Follow-Ups

The original promote/publish/calibrate closure proof is documented in docs/archives/BASELINE_LOOP_CLOSURE.md. The newer knowledge and replay tracker is complete in docs/archives/BASELINE_KNOWLEDGE_REPLAY_PLAN.md, with current health and follow-ups summarized in docs/archives/WORK_AUDIT_2026-07-08.md.

Useful health checks:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline lint --dry-run
python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline eval --dry-run
python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline handoffs audit --dry-run
python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline replay select --dry-run

Engineering Baseline

Create or refresh the baseline scaffold:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline scaffold

Expected output: missing baseline folders and templates are created under baseline/, including calibration examples and proposal scaffolding. Existing files are preserved.

Generate reviewable candidate predictions from the archive:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline suggest

Expected output: a dated candidate report appears under baseline/candidates/, with a matching .predictions.json sidecar, and the prediction ledger under baseline/metacognition/ is updated. Candidate reports are suggestions with provenance and calibration hooks. Copy baseline/calibration/feedback.example.toml to baseline/calibration/feedback.toml to mark predictions as accepted, edited, or rejected before the next run.

Summarize calibration feedback against the latest prediction sidecar:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline calibrate --feedback baseline\calibration\feedback.toml

Create a local evidence bundle for an authorized AI agent to draft proposals:

python .\tools\agent_archive.py baseline bundle --focus badminton-highlight-indexer

Compose Stack

This repo owns durable export and baseline generation. Search, Claude-specific browsing, live capture, and runtime memory are delegated to external tools where they are already stronger. See docs/COMPOSE_STACK.md.

Daily export automation is documented in docs/AUTOMATION.md. Multi-machine indexing is documented in docs/MULTI_MACHINE.md.

Reusable Plugins

This repo also hosts a Claude Code plugin marketplace (agent-sessions-tools). Install the pr-review-loop PR-reviewer plugin from any session:

/plugin marketplace add avidullu/agent-sessions
/plugin install pr-review-loop@agent-sessions-tools

See plugins/pr-review-loop/README.md.

Other Machines

Clone this private repo on another machine, follow docs/NEW_MACHINE_SETUP.md, commit the new archive/ Markdown/PDF files, and push. The archive index is merge-aware, so records from other machines remain in the unified view when one machine exports only the local sources it can see.

If a machine has different usernames, WSL distribution names, or custom storage paths, copy sources.example.toml to sources.toml and edit the roots. The local sources.toml is ignored by Git.

Roadmap

See docs/ROADMAP.md for optional future importers and archive automation ideas.

The engineering-baseline idea is sketched in docs/ENGINEERING_BASELINE.md. The current implementation plan is tracked in docs/BASELINE_PLANNING.md.