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Local Conversation History

Lists recent local Claude Code and OpenAI Codex conversations for a workspace with one read-only command.

UtilitiesIntermediate★ 1,323⑂ 212AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

  • Prints a project-scoped inventory of recent Claude Code and Codex conversations in a single run.
  • Combines every active config home (~/.claude, profile homes, CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR) with every long-term archive registered in ~/.claude/history-sources.json, de-duplicating session IDs.
  • Sorts and filters by internal JSONL timestamps instead of file mtime, so copying or migrating archives never distorts chronology.
  • Renders presentation-ready Markdown (or JSON) with titles, timezone-qualified timestamps, provenance labels, session IDs, and archive/test flags.
  • Excludes internal sub-agent and smoke-test noise by default; opt in with --include-subagents / --include-automated.

Who it's for

  • Developers juggling many repos who keep losing track of where a past session happened.
  • Users running both Claude Code and Codex CLI with history scattered across stores.
  • Anyone who archives conversation history to external drives but still wants one unified listing.
  • People who need an exact session ID before resuming work.

Examples

  1. "Show my last 10 conversations for this repo" → a table of titles, timestamps, session IDs, and sources.
  2. "List only Codex threads from last week, including archived ones" → --source codex --include-archived --from-date ....
  3. "Give me an inventory across all workspaces" → --all-projects, then pick the session ID to continue with.

Note: full-text search, deleted-file recovery, and resuming work are handled by sibling skills (claude-code-history-files-finder, continue-claude-work, continue-codex-work).

· · · Install guide · · ·

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the daymade-claude-code/local-conversation-history folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/local-conversation-history/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git /tmp/claude-code-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-code-skills/daymade-claude-code/local-conversation-history ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Confirm Python 3 is available: run python3 --version.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy this skill in: cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-claude-code/local-conversation-history ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Optional: make the script executable — chmod +x ~/.claude/skills/local-conversation-history/scripts/list_local_history.py
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask: "list my recent local conversations".
  7. Optional: register durable archive paths in ~/.claude/history-sources.json so they are searched on every run.
  8. On Windows, invoke it as py <skill-dir>/scripts/list_local_history.py --cwd . --limit 10.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT