cline-session-history

cline-session-history is a skill for Claude Code from cline/skills. It costs 114 tokens per session (1,390 once invoked), scanned B, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for searching and reading Cline’s locally stored coding-session history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search sessions by time, prompt, status, model, provider, workspace, or other details, then read or export matching transcripts.
Why use it?
It helps find past sessions without manually opening session files or remembering exactly when a conversation happened.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; built for cline.

Part of the cline plugin — 43 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to search sessions by time, prompt, status, model, provider, workspace, or other details, then read or export matching transcripts.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/cline/skills/cline-session-search
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.

Any agent
npx skills add cline/skills --skill cline-session-search
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cline/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cline, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 43 skills.

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Per session 114 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,390 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00114 $0.01390
Opus 5 $0.00057 $0.00695
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00278
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00139

Measured 10d ago against content hash 6dfbbd748054, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

cline-session-history scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/search_sessions.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Asks the agent to reveal its instructionsmediumSystem prompt leakage

Directions to print, repeat or translate the system prompt extract configuration the operator did not intend to expose.

| `--full-prompt` | Show full prompt text instead of truncated |
skills/cline-session-search/SKILL.md · 117 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 117 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cline Session History

Search and browse Cline session history stored on the local machine. Sessions live in ~/.cline/data/sessions/ as individual JSON metadata files and conversation transcript (.messages.json) files. Older sessions may also be in a sessions.db SQLite database.

When to Use This Skill

  • "Find my session from the last hour about..."
  • "Find my session that started with this prompt..."
  • "Find the session where I asked about..."
  • "Show me sessions that used model X"
  • "What sessions failed yesterday?"
  • "Show me the transcript for session "
  • "Export sessions from last week to a folder"
  • "What was that session where..."
  • Any request involving past Cline conversation history

How to Use

The search script lives alongside this file at scripts/search_sessions.py, relative to the skill's own directory. Resolve it against the directory that contains this SKILL.mdnot the current working directory — so it works regardless of where the command is run from.

Script path: scripts/search_sessions.py (relative to this skill's directory)

The examples below use scripts/search_sessions.py; prefix it with the skill directory's absolute path when running from elsewhere.

All filters are optional and combine with AND logic.

Quick Examples

# Sessions from the last 10 minutes
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --since 10m

# Sessions between two dates with "chatgpt" in the prompt
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --since 2026-06-01 --until 2026-06-21 --prompt chatgpt

# Find a session by its starting prompt (quoted substring match)
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --since 1d --prompt "find some code that should be improved" --full-prompt

# Non-interactive sessions that failed
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --no-interactive --status failed

# VS Code extension sessions using Claude models, full prompts
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --source vscode --model "claude" --full-prompt

# Full transcript of a specific session
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --session-id 1781991507587_pozk0 --transcript

# Export matching sessions to a directory
python3 scripts/search_sessions.py --since 1d --export ~/tmp/exported-sessions

Read the full file on GitHub · 117 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 117 lines · 114 tokens per session scan B 6dfbbd748054

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cline-session-history is a skill published in the GitHub repository cline/skills (23 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 114 tokens to every session and 1,390 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks the agent to reveal its instructions). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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