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Contextify

Local-first searchable history for Claude Code and Codex, exposed back to agents via CLI, skill and MCP

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freemiumThree ways to run it, split by personal versus commercial use. Local personal use is free with no account: the macOS app and CLI on one Mac, unlimited local history, Apple Intelligence summaries, and native CLI, skill and MCP access to 100% of your history. Local Commercial is the same local app licensed for work at $8 per seat per month, or $77 per year (a stated 20% saving), covering one person across all their machines on Mac and Linux — checkout is self-serve in the browser and the licence code arrives by email. Cloud and Personal Self-Hosted tiers are offered above that, with the vendor stating a Local purchase is credited toward a Cloud upgrade. Local mode sends nothing to Contextify by default.View full pricing →

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About Contextify

Contextify keeps a private, searchable timeline of your Claude Code and Codex sessions. The premise is a real gap: Claude Code history is deleted after 30 days and has no full-text search, so the command you ran, the fix you found, or the solution you worked out weeks ago is simply gone. Contextify watches both tools and writes everything into one local database with full-text search across every conversation you have ever had. There is an ambient flow monitor that shows sessions unfolding in real time, with each message summarised so you can skim what happened while you were away or follow along as the agent works. On macOS 26 those summaries are generated locally through Apple Intelligence with no API keys and no cloud processing; on macOS 15 a Lite Mode gives the timeline and search without summaries. Beyond browsing, the history is exposed back to your agents through a native CLI, a skill and an MCP endpoint, so past sessions become live context for the current one — including pulling Claude Code transcripts into a Codex session and the reverse, which is the specific workflow the project launched around. It is local-first by default and sends nothing to the vendor unless you enable it; optional Cloud Sync searches across devices and keeps a backup, and a Personal Self-Hosted option runs on infrastructure you operate. Available for macOS and Linux.

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Key Features

✓Full-text search across all Claude Code and Codex sessions, kept past the 30-day deletion
✓Real-time ambient monitor with per-message summaries
✓On-device Apple Intelligence summarisation on macOS 26
✓Native CLI, agent skill and MCP access to the whole history
✓Cross-tool: pull Claude Code transcripts into Codex and vice versa
✓Local-first with optional Cloud Sync or self-hosting

Contextify Pros & Cons

✅ Pros

  • +Free forever for personal local use with no account
  • +Exposing history over MCP turns an archive into working context
  • +Nothing leaves the machine unless you opt in

⚠️ Cons

  • −AI summaries require macOS 26; macOS 15 drops to Lite Mode
  • −Only covers Claude Code and Codex, not other agent harnesses
  • −Commercial use requires a paid licence even for the purely local app

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