session-search

To search past Claude Code session transcripts for a specific keyword, use a grep-like full-text search to locate and retrieve historical conversations stored locally on disk, enabling fast context recall across matching turns.

Yes, you can filter Claude Cowork sessions by time range and working directory. The tool normalizes turns from local storage and supports filtering by kind, title, and cwd to help you locate specific historical conversations.

Yes, the transcript search tool supports finding Codex sessions stored locally. It offers optional Codex compatibility alongside Claude Code and Claude Cowork, allowing you to retrieve and normalize historical sessions across multiple platforms.

The best way to retrieve context from a previous Claude Code design discussion is to preview session metadata and retrieve a portion of the transcript directly from local storage, allowing rapid context recall without restoring the entire session.

To extract a specific conversation from local Claude session transcripts, run a script to locate sessions by full-text content, then inspect the matching transcript to pull the relevant normalized turns for your context.

A limitation when searching for old Codex transcripts is that Codex compatibility is optional, and while you can filter by working directory, the tool reads transcripts directly from disk, meaning only locally stored sessions are searchable.