Every conversation with your coding agent, saved on your laptop. Searchable. Yours.

You do not need to live in a terminal. Open the timeline, click any past chat, and hand it straight back to a fresh one. Claude Code and Codex both show up there from the first launch, with nothing to configure. The whole history of every project you have built lives in a beautiful local browser, and nothing leaves your machine silently.

npm install -g @clauderecallhq/cli

recall start && recall open

The problem in plain English

You opened Claude Code last week and got it to do something amazing. This morning you want to do that thing again, only better. You scroll through the file picker. The session you want is buried under fifty newer ones. You give up and re-explain the project from scratch. The agent does an OK job. Not as good as it did last week.

It gets worse the moment you use two agents. Claude Code saves its chats in one folder on your laptop and Codex saves its own in another, in a different format. The work you are hunting for is not gone. It is sitting in the pile you are not looking at. Claude Recall reads both piles into one timeline.

That is context debt, and almost everyone steering a coding agent is paying interest on it.

The fix in three clicks

1. Open the timeline. Every past conversation appears as a card with a title and a date, Claude Code and Codex together in one list, the Codex ones wearing a small Codex tag so you can tell at a glance which agent wrote what.
2. Search for the one you want. The bar at the top finds matches across every word ever typed, in both agents at once. A Source switch above the list narrows it to one of them when you already know where you were.
3. Click Copy context. The whole conversation lands on your clipboard as clean, readable text, ready to paste into a new chat with either agent.

That is the entire workflow. No commands. No re-explaining. No notes you forgot to update.

Why your conversations stay safe

• Everything runs on your laptop. There is no cloud, no signup, no account.
• The browser interface is on a private address that only your computer can see.
• Inside the Codex folder, the only files ever opened are the conversation files. Not the login file, not the settings, and nothing in there is ever written to. A test proves it by watching every file the app touches while it starts up and scans.
• No silent telemetry. Nothing about your conversations leaves your laptop unless you ask it to.
• If we ever disappear, your conversations keep working. They are stored on your disk, in plain files you can open with any text editor.

What it costs

Claude Recall has a free tier that indexes everything and lets you browse. The full version is a one-time purchase, less than two coffees a year out, and unlocks search, handing past conversations back to an agent, and a few advanced features. No subscription. No automatic renewal.

If you do live in the terminal

The same product has a CLI and an MCP server. If you want the developer-flavored entry, start at the engineers landing page.

Last updated September 2026