export-session

A command that saves the current Claude Code session as a portable folder, including its transcript, file snapshots, and related project settings.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to export a session with an automatic or custom name, create a human-readable Markdown copy, and prepare the session for later import.
Why use it?
It keeps a complete record of an agent session for backup, review, or sharing. The exported folder can be committed to Git or moved to another machine.

Command for Claude Code

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jimmc414/cctrace/export-session
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jimmc414/cctrace

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 334 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00009 $0.00334
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00167
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5a178fa6135a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

export-session scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/commands/export-session.md · 56 lines

What it actually says

Export the current session to a portable format that can be shared via Git or imported into another environment.

Usage

/export-session [name]

Where [name] is an optional export name (defaults to session slug).

What This Does

  1. Finds the current session in ~/.claude/projects/<normalized-path>/
  2. Creates .claude-sessions/<name>/ with:
    • session/main.jsonl - The full session transcript
    • session/file-history/ - File snapshots from the session
    • config/ - Commands, skills, hooks, agents, rules
    • .cctrace-manifest.json - Metadata for import
    • RENDERED.md - Human-readable session for GitHub
    • Legacy files for backwards compatibility

Examples

Export with auto-generated name:

/export-session

Export with custom name:

/export-session my-feature-session

After Export

The export will be in .claude-sessions/<name>/. You can:

  • Commit and push to share via GitHub
  • Copy to another machine
  • Import with /import-session

Implementation

Run the export tool:

python3 export_claude_session.py --in-repo --export-name "$ARGUMENTS" --max-age 86400

If no arguments, use default name:

python3 export_claude_session.py --in-repo --max-age 86400
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 56 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 5a178fa6135a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

export-session is a command published in the GitHub repository jimmc414/cctrace (199 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 334 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.