Gigai Chronicle v0.3.0 — Knowledge, Context Pack, Codex, git dashboard tabs + Settings

Gigai Chronicle v0.3.0

Your AI-development history — recorded in-repo, linked to git, replayable. This release turns captured history into working tools.

New

• Knowledge extraction — chronicle knowledge surfaces the decisions & TODOs buried in your sessions (prompts and the agent's responses), rule-based and model-free, each with its own source line + confidence. Negation/question-guarded and deliberately conservative — an honest index, never a guess.
• Context Pack — chronicle context <file> (and VS Code Copy context pack) assembles a paste-ready brief from your own history: the prompts that shaped a file + the decisions from those sessions. Pure assembly — Chronicle never calls a model; it briefs the one you do.
• Codex import — chronicle import codex reads your existing ~/.codex rollouts, scoped to the current repo.
• Dashboard: Commits & Files tabs — now sourced from your real git history, timed to the session's window (never fabricated).
• Dashboard: Settings page — a read-only view of your capture config and privacy posture.

Fixes

• Commits/Files tabs no longer empty (session-window was inverted for multi-start/end sessions).
• Land on the newest moment when opening a session or switching tabs; "load earlier" works on every tab.
• Settings honestly flags an unreadable config instead of showing defaults as truth.

Install

• CLI: npm i -g gigai-chronicle (0.3.0 on npm)
• VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf: search "Gigai Chronicle", or install the attached .vsix (Command Palette → Extensions: Install from VSIX…)

Local-first · plain text · zero network by default · never calls a model · never scores developers.

Gigai Chronicle v0.2.0 — multi-provider (Codex + Claude Code) & self-naming prompts

Build software with AI. Never lose the journey.

v0.2 makes Chronicle multi-provider and turns the prompt library into something you never have to think about — while keeping every promise: local-first, plain text, zero network by default, and it never calls a model.

New in v0.2

Codex CLI, alongside Claude Code

• chronicle import codex — and a one-click "Import Codex sessions" in the VS Code sidebar — pull your existing Codex sessions (~/.codex/sessions/) into the same store as everything else. Nothing is installed into Codex; it's read-only.
• Scoped to the repo by each session's recorded working directory, so another project's sessions never leak in. Idempotent, and fail-soft on format drift.
• Chronicle is now genuinely tool-agnostic: a Codex session and a Claude Code session are the same species of history, replayable side by side. (More providers raise their row in PROVIDERS.md.)

Prompts that name themselves

• Saving a prompt asks nothing. Write a new one and it's saved from the first keystroke; the first line becomes its name automatically (like a commit subject). Promote a prompt you typed, or save the file you're editing — all zero-friction.
• The current/live session now sits at the top of the sidebar where it belongs.

Built to be trustworthy

Every change passed an adversarial code review — 32 independent agents across four lenses, each finding re-checked by skeptics. Twelve issues were found and fixed before release, including two real data-integrity bugs in incremental Codex import (a cursor off-by-one that dropped appended records, and duplicate session-end markers). Regression tests cover them now. For a tool whose whole point is an honest record, that pass matters.

Install / update

• CLI — npm install -g gigai-chronicle · npm
• VS Code — Marketplace
• Cursor / Windsurf — Open VSX, or the .vsix below → Extensions: Install from VSIX…

Guide: docs/GUIDE.md · Roadmap: docs/ROADMAP.md

The promises

Local-first · plain text · zero network by default · never calls a model · never writes your git history · never scores developers. MIT for the code, CC-BY for the spec.

Full changelog: v0.1.1...v0.2.0

Gigai Chronicle v0.1.1 — prompt evolution, the dashboard & a real prompt library

Build software with AI. Never lose the journey.

v0.1.1 turns the prompt library into a real workflow and gives the editor extension a proper home — a dashboard — while keeping every promise: local-first, plain text, zero network by default, and it never calls a model.

New in v0.1.1

See how your asks evolved

• chronicle diff [a] [b] — the wording delta between two prompts you typed (no args = the last two). git diff, but for your prompts.
• chronicle why <file> --evolution — how the ask sharpened across the prompts that shaped a file.

A real prompt library

• chronicle prompt use <slug>[@v] — pull a saved prompt into your hands (--copy puts it on the clipboard).
• ● used / ○ saved — a prompt's lifecycle, derived from real capture: it counts as used only when Chronicle actually observed it submitted (or it was promoted from a session). No click-counters, nothing faked.
• --note — a commit message for each prompt version · chronicle prompt revert — append-only rollback, nothing rewritten · chronicle prompt compare a@2 b — diff across different prompts.

The Dashboard — VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf

• One webview, now a workspace: a nav rail, a tabbed session view (Conversation · Tools · Git · Files · Gaps), and real session stats — turns, tool runs, files touched, fidelity. (No token meter: Chronicle captures no token counts, so it shows none.)
• A GitLens-style sidebar — quick-action toolbar, collapsible sections with live counts, lifecycle badges.
• Save or author prompts anywhere — promote one you typed, or write a brand-new prompt for later, straight from the dashboard or the sidebar.

Install / update

• CLI — npm install -g gigai-chronicle · npm
• VS Code — Marketplace
• Cursor / Windsurf — Open VSX, or grab the .vsix below → Extensions: Install from VSIX…

New here? Start with the Guide and the Roadmap.

Built to be trustworthy

Every change in this release passed an adversarial code review — independent reviewers hunting for bugs, each finding re-checked by skeptics before it counted. Five issues were found and fixed before release; three were cases where the UI could have stated something untrue. For a tool whose whole point is an honest record, that mattered.

The promises

Local-first · plain text · zero network by default · never calls a model · never writes your git history · never scores developers. MIT for the code, CC-BY for the spec.

Full changelog: v0.1.0...v0.1.1

Gigai Chronicle v0.1.0 — first public release

Build software with AI. Never lose the journey.

Git records what changed. Gigai Chronicle records what was asked — the prompts, the AI's responses, the tools it ran, and the code it produced — as an append-only, plain-text log inside your git repository. Local-first, zero network by default, and it never calls a model.

Highlights

• chronicle why <file> — the prompt behind each change. git blame says who; this says what was asked.
• chronicle restore <event> — put your code back to how it was at any prompt, safety-checkpointed.
• chronicle replay <session> — step through prompts, responses, tools, and commits interleaved.
• Prompt library — keep the prompt that worked; versioned, diffable, git-synced.
• chronicle doctor — integrity, secret audit, and a proof that nothing leaves your machine.
• VS Code / Cursor / Windsurf extension — history sidebar, prompt version graph, and "Why is this file like this?" in the editor.

Install the extension

Download gigaichronicle-vscode.vsix below → Command Palette → Extensions: Install from VSIX… (works in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf).

Marketplace and npm listings are rolling out — see the README and the Guide.

The promises

Local-first · plain text · zero network by default · never calls a model · never writes your git history · never scores developers. MIT for the code, CC-BY for the spec.