Migrate your sessions to any harness.
Move coding agent sessions among Claude Code, Codex, Pi, Oh My Pi, OpenCode, GitHub Copilot CLI, Antigravity CLI, Cursor Agent, Mistral Vibe, Muse Code, Qwen Code, and Kimi Code.
## Install ```bash curl -LsSf https://session-migrate.github.io/install.sh | sh ``` Or install with `uv`: ```bash uv tool install session-migrate ``` `pipx install session-migrate` works too. Python 3.11+ and Linux are currently supported. The full command is `session-migrate`; `smigrate` is the shorthand. Already installed? Run `uv tool upgrade session-migrate`. ## Quick start Inspect any native transcript without printing its conversation: ```bash smigrate inspect ~/.claude/projects/-work/SESSION.jsonl ``` Move a Claude session into Codex and resume it from the same project directory: ```bash smigrate transfer SESSION_UUID --from claude --to codex --cwd "$PWD" codex resume NEW_SESSION_UUID ``` Or find an older session by its native title/name first: ```bash smigrate catalog refresh smigrate catalog search "oauth refresh" --format claude smigrate transfer --title "oauth refresh" --from claude --to pi ``` Search is case-insensitive and every word must match, in any order. It searches native titles, names, and IDs—not conversation bodies. A few useful patterns: ```bash # “Fix flaky PostgreSQL timeout” also matches this reversed keyword order. smigrate catalog search "timeout postgres" # Find a release conversation among archived Codex sessions from this month. smigrate catalog search "release notes" --format codex \ --lifecycle archived --since 2026-08-01T00:00:00Z # Opt in to matching a project directory when the title is vague. smigrate catalog search "checkout api" --include-paths ``` `catalog refresh` is exhaustive inside the default, environment-selected, registered, and explicitly discovered roots. It does not crawl your whole disk. ## Give it to your coding agent Choose the route on the [project website](https://session-migrate.github.io/), or replace the three bracketed values yourself: > Follow https://session-migrate.github.io/llms.txt to migrate a session from > `[SOURCE]` to `[TARGET]`. Session: `[UUID OR TITLE]` The linked procedure is sandbox-tested with both Claude Code and Codex. See the [agent workflow and verification](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/coding-agent-instruction.md). ## Compatibility - Claude Code - Codex CLI - Pi - Oh My Pi (OMP) - OpenCode - GitHub Copilot CLI - Antigravity CLI - Mistral Vibe - Muse Code - Qwen Code - Kimi Code - Cursor Agent (experimental, pinned, text only) Every listed format can be a source or target: 144 ordered routes, including same-format portable rewrites. Cursor deliberately transfers only ordered user/assistant text and is pinned to one exact Linux build; it is not a vendor-supported import API. Same-format migration creates a new independent session—it is not a byte-for-byte clone or a live sync. ## What survives | Session data | Result | Notes | | --- | :---: | --- | | User and assistant messages | ✓ | Preserved in order on every route | | Tool calls and results | ✓ / partial | Preserved when both adapters support the native shape | | Images | ✓ / partial | Supported image blocks move; other media is format-dependent | | Compaction summaries | ✓ / partial | Recreated where the target has a portable equivalent | | Readable reasoning | Vibe-only portable rewrite | Vibe keeps its explicit readable field when rewritten to Vibe; other/private/signed traces never move | | Session name, ID, and picker entry | Recreated | The target gets a new native identity and resume state | | Branches, forks, and subagents | Not flattened | Cataloged separately where detectable; migrate the parent session | | Private or signed thinking | No | Model/provider-bound traces are deliberately omitted | | Auth, hooks, policies, MCP, and runtime config | No | These remain with the source client | Every omission or transformation is counted in a content-free migration manifest. The source session is never modified. Cursor intentionally accepts text only. See [Pi thinking traces](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/pi-thinking-traces.md). ## How it works ```text native session → validated event timeline → native target → resume ``` Each reader projects a versioned native transcript into a small ordered model. Each writer then emits only structures verified against the target CLI. This is session migration, not text export: the target receives a discoverable, resumable native session. ## More - [CLI reference](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/cli-reference.md) - [Coding-agent instruction](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/coding-agent-instruction.md) - [Session catalog](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/session-catalog.md) - [Compatibility details](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/format-compatibility.md) - [Troubleshooting](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md) - [Format research and validation](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/validation-report.md) - [Data handling and architecture](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/architecture.md) - [Antigravity format](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/antigravity-format.md) - [Oh My Pi format](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/omp-format.md) - [Experimental Cursor format](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/cursor-format.md) - [Mistral Vibe format](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/vibe-format.md) - [Muse, Qwen Code, and Kimi Code formats](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/muse-qwen-kimi-formats.md) The Antigravity and Cursor adapters are clean-room, unofficial, and version-pinned. Their independently observed formats are published separately: [Antigravity research](https://github.com/xhluca/antigravity-session-interoperability) and [Cursor research](https://github.com/xhluca/cursor-session-interoperability). The demo above uses real native casts recorded with the same tmux + asciinema approach as agent-talk. Claude diagnoses a boundary bug in a small project; the migrated session is reopened in Pi, which applies the proposed patch and runs the regression test. It shows the source TUI, the migration command, the shared history, and the continued target session. The website plays those casts directly in JavaScript; the README animation is rendered from that same scene. The same source session is also continued in [Claude → Codex](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/xhluca/session-migrate/main/docs/assets/demo-codex.gif). [Watch the larger-text Pi video](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/raw/main/docs/assets/demo-pi.mp4), [watch the larger-text Codex video](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/raw/main/docs/assets/demo-codex.mp4), or [reproduce both](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/scripts/render-demo.sh). The recorder uses disposable credential copies only to drive the native clients; the published assets contain only the controlled demo project and omit account status.
## Contributing
```bash
git clone https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate.git
cd session-migrate
uv sync --dev
uv run pytest
```
See [the development guide](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/docs/development.md)
before changing a native
adapter. New formats need sanitized fixtures and a real native-resume oracle.
## License
[MIT](https://github.com/xhluca/session-migrate/blob/main/LICENSE)