What is cli-continues CLAUDE.md?

A project instruction file for the Continues command-line tool, which resumes AI coding sessions across several coding assistants. It documents the project, commands, architecture, and development flow.

Use it as a guide for installing dependencies, building, testing, developing, and understanding how Continues reads and transfers session data.

It gives an AI coding agent the repository context it needs before building, testing, or changing the tool.

cli-continues CLAUDE.md — Instructions file for coding agents by yigitkonur: A project instruction file for the Continues command-line tool…

About the project

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.

yigitkonur/cli-continues · 1,485 stars · on GitHub

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 instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/yigitkonur/cli-continues

Wrote 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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/instructions/yigitkonur/cli-continues/claude-md)

Your own site

<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="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Per session 2,344 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,344 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.02344	$0.02344
Opus 5	$0.01172	$0.01172
Sonnet 5	$0.00469	$0.00469
Haiku 4.5	$0.00234	$0.00234

Measured 5d ago against content hash 15d4acb82ef0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 5d 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.md · 150 lines

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)

Adapter Registry (src/parsers/registry.ts): Central ToolAdapter interface and adapters record. 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). Handles list, 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 via Promise.allSettled (one broken parser won't crash the CLI), merges and sorts by updatedAt.

Read the full file on GitHub · 150 lines

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.

5d ago First seen · 150 lines · 2,344 tokens per session scan A 15d4acb82ef0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-continues CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository yigitkonur/cli-continues (1,485 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,344 tokens to every session, about $0.0117 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.

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