Show HN: Pull Claude Code transcripts into your Codex session, and vice versa
Contextify indexes all Claude Code and Codex sessions into a local, searchable SQLite database, enabling cross-tool transcript search via /total-recall and $total-recall. It offers a Mac app, Linux CLI, and optional cloud sync for pooling across machines. Free for personal use, with paid tiers for hosted sync and commercial use.
Background
- **Claude Code** and **Codex** are AI coding assistants (terminal-based tools from Anthropic and OpenAI, respectively) that let developers write code conversationally, similar to Cursor or GitHub Copilot but running in the command line. Both keep local transcript logs of every session — but in incompatible formats, different folders, and with automatic deletion (Claude Code deletes transcripts after 30 days).<br>- **Contextify** is a third-party Mac/Linux tool that watches those folders, parses both formats, and indexes every message, tool call, and subagent step into a single local SQLite database with full-text search. It then teaches Claude Code and Codex a custom command (`/total-recall` or `$total-recall`) to search that unified history mid-session.<br>- The problem Contextify solves: developers who switch between the two tools (often because of rate limits or chasing better model performance) lose the ability to reference past work across both. Contextify also offers optional cloud sync ($12/mo) to pool transcripts across multiple machines, and a team version that lets coworkers search each other's shared project history.