Some tools clean up old sessions on a schedule (Claude Code's retention setting). Today that also removes them from sessiondex, since we read what's on disk.
Goal: an opt-in archive mode that copies parsed sessions into the index's own store, so the tool's cleanup stops being your memory's expiry date.
- snapshot current sessions into sessiondex's store
- archived sessions stay searchable and
brief-able after the original is gone
resume still needs the original file, so it degrades to brief for archived-only sessions
This is the headline pre-launch idea: "install early, lose nothing."
Some tools clean up old sessions on a schedule (Claude Code's retention setting). Today that also removes them from sessiondex, since we read what's on disk.
Goal: an opt-in archive mode that copies parsed sessions into the index's own store, so the tool's cleanup stops being your memory's expiry date.
brief-able after the original is goneresumestill needs the original file, so it degrades tobrieffor archived-only sessionsThis is the headline pre-launch idea: "install early, lose nothing."