agent-sessions-tui

agent-sessions-tui is a focused terminal browser for local coding-agent sessions. It discovers histories from supported tools, keeps filtering immediate, and resumes the selected CLI session in the current terminal.

Demo data is used in the screenshot.

It is intentionally limited to three jobs:

• Discover and normalize local agent sessions.
• Search and navigate them quickly with a keyboard or mouse.
• Resume supported sessions without copying IDs or commands by hand.

Session data stays local and provider stores are opened read-only. To keep later launches fast, the app stores a private incremental search cache in the operating system's user cache directory. Later launches render that snapshot first, then validate it in the background. Unchanged transcripts are reused based on their path, size, and modification time; changed and removed files are updated automatically.

Supported tools

Tool	Default local store	Resume
Codex	~/.codex/sessions, ~/.codex/archived_sessions	codex resume <id>
Claude	~/.claude*/projects, ~/.claude*/transcripts, Claude desktop local sessions	claude --resume <id>
Antigravity	~/.gemini/antigravity*/brain	agy --conversation <id>
OpenCode	~/.local/share/opencode/opencode.db and legacy JSON storage	opencode --session <id>
Hermes	~/.hermes/state.db and ~/.hermes/sessions	hermes --resume <id>
GitHub Copilot CLI	~/.copilot/session-state	copilot --resume=<id>
Droid	~/.factory/sessions, ~/.factory/projects	Not exposed because the source app has no stable ID resume workflow
OpenClaw	~/.openclaw/agents, legacy ~/.clawdbot/agents	Not exposed because the source app has no stable ID resume workflow
Cursor Agent	~/.cursor/projects/*/agent-transcripts	cursor agent --resume <id>
Pi	~/.pi/agent/sessions	pi --session <path-or-id>

The app respects OPENCLAW_STATE_DIR when it is set.

Appearance

Each provider has a distinct color, while timestamps, projects, titles, search state, and the active row use separate visual weights. The adaptive palette is designed for light and dark terminals. Standard NO_COLOR behavior is respected.

Install

Go 1.24 or newer is required.

Install the latest version with one command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/natelindev/agent-sessions-tui/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

The script downloads the Go module, builds it, and installs the binary atomically into $XDG_BIN_HOME or ~/.local/bin.

Alternatively, install directly with Go:

go install github.com/natelindev/agent-sessions-tui/cmd/agent-sessions-tui@latest

For a local checkout:

./scripts/install.sh
agent-sessions-tui

When run from a local checkout, the same installer builds the checked-out source. Override the destination when needed:

./scripts/install.sh --bin-dir /usr/local/bin

Controls

Action	Keyboard	Mouse
Navigate	Arrow keys, j / k, Page Up / Page Down	Scroll wheel
Search	/, then type	Click the search field, then type
Leave search	Enter or Escape	Click a row
Clear search	Escape outside the search field	-
Resume	Enter	Double-click a row
Refresh	r	-
Quit	q or Ctrl+C	-

Search is case-insensitive and updates on every keystroke. Space-separated terms use AND matching across provider, session ID, title, project, working directory, model, path, and indexed transcript text. File-backed sessions scan the complete transcript and deduplicate normalized search terms, so later messages remain searchable without retaining repeated text. OpenCode and Hermes database rows use their session metadata.

Design

The implementation has four small layers:

• internal/discovery locates provider stores, incrementally caches file-backed search indexes, and extracts lightweight session records concurrently.
• internal/session owns the normalized model, sorting, and in-memory search.
• internal/resume maps supported providers to argument-safe exec.Cmd values.
• internal/ui owns the responsive Bubble Tea interface and input handling.

Resume commands are built as executable paths plus argument arrays. They are not passed through a shell. The selected working directory is used when it still exists, and Bubble Tea temporarily hands the terminal to the resumed process.

Inspiration and scope

This is an independent Go TUI inspired by Agent Sessions, a local-first desktop app for browsing work across coding agents. It carries forward the original project's most useful core workflow: discover sessions across tools, search them instantly, and resume work with minimal friction.

The scope is deliberately smaller. It does not include transcript and image viewers, usage quotas, analytics, saved-session management, settings screens, menu-bar features, or an application updater. The result is a fast terminal-native tool centered on session discovery, search, and resume.

Development

go test ./...
go vet ./...
go build -trimpath -o ./bin/agent-sessions-tui ./cmd/agent-sessions-tui

The project uses Bubble Tea and Lip Gloss for terminal rendering and the pure-Go modernc.org/sqlite driver for read-only OpenCode and Hermes access.

License

Released under the MIT License.