continues is a command-line tool for moving an AI coding session from one coding agent to another while preserving conversation history, file changes, and working state. Developers use it when they need to continue work in a different tool, and the catalogue entries provide instructions for transferring sessions across supported agents.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to yigitkonur/cli-continues. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yigitkonur/cli-continues/main/CLAUDE.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yigitkonur/cli-continuesWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.02344 | $0.02344 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00938 | $0.00938 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00469 | $0.00469 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00234 | $0.00234 |
Grade A, and why
cli-continues CLAUDE.md 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 1mo 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 150 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
CLAUDE.md
This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
What This Project Is
continues is a CLI tool that lets users resume AI coding sessions across Claude Code, GitHub Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Factory Droid, and Cursor AI. It reads each tool's native session storage (read-only), extracts context (messages, file changes, tool activity, AI reasoning), and injects it into a different tool as a structured markdown handoff document.
Build & Development Commands
pnpm install # Install dependencies
pnpm run build # TypeScript compile (tsc) → dist/
pnpm run dev # Run with tsx (no build step)
pnpm test # Run unit tests (vitest)
pnpm run test:watch # Watch mode
pnpm run link # Build + pnpm link --global (local testing as `continues` / `cont`)
Run a single test file:
npx vitest run src/__tests__/unit-conversions.test.ts
Requires Node.js 22+ (uses built-in node:sqlite for OpenCode parsing).
Architecture
Core Flow
CLI (src/cli.ts) → Registry (src/parsers/registry.ts) → Index (src/utils/index.ts) → Parsers (src/parsers/*.ts) → Markdown (src/utils/markdown.ts) → Resume (src/utils/resume.ts)
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Adapter Registry (
src/parsers/registry.ts): CentralToolAdapterinterface andadaptersrecord. Every supported CLI tool is registered here with its parser functions, resume commands, color, label, and storage path. All other modules derive their behavior from the registry — no manual switch statements or hardcoded tool lists. -
CLI (
src/cli.ts): Commander-based CLI with interactive TUI (@clack/prompts). Handleslist,resume,scan,rebuild,pick, and per-tool quick-resume subcommands. Quick-resume commands and source colors are generated from the registry automatically. -
Session Index (
src/utils/index.ts): Builds and caches a unified JSONL index at~/.continues/sessions.jsonl(5-min TTL). Calls all parsers in parallel viaPromise.allSettled(one broken parser won't crash the CLI), merges and sorts byupdatedAt.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 150 lines · 2,344 tokens per session scan A 15d4acb82ef0
cli-continues CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yigitkonur/cli-continues (1,580 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,344 tokens to every session, about $0.0094 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.
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