archive-session

archive-session is a skill for Claude Code from lifeinchords/claude-code-skills. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,524 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool that turns coding-agent session transcripts and subagent logs into browsable HTML and Markdown archives.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the end of a session or when investigating previous work. It can archive the current or a selected session, save subagent logs, and open the generated HTML.
Why use it?
It preserves a readable record of past work for auditing, debugging, or later reference.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /Users/dev/code/my-project.

Good fit Use it at the end of a session or when investigating previous work. It can archive the current or a selected session, save subagent logs, and open the generated HTML.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

There is no command for this one: it runs only inside a plugin, and the catalogue could not identify which plugin ships it. The source is linked below.

Made for: Claude Code.

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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.

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README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lifeinchords/claude-code-skills/archive-session"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lifeinchords/claude-code-skills/archive-session.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,524 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00061 $0.01524
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.00762
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00305
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00152

Measured 8d ago against content hash 86ef0da31d2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

archive-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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/archive.sh), 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.

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/skills/archive-session/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IMPORTANT: Always invoke scripts with relative paths from the project root, never absolute paths. Permission rules use relative patterns -- absolute paths will not match and will trigger a prompt.

Archive Session

Archives the current Claude Code session transcript and any subagent logs, generating browsable HTML and Markdown files.

When to Use

  • End of work session for audit trail
  • Debugging session or subagent execution
  • Before context gets too large

Arguments

  • No arguments: archives to default location docs/process/claudeCodeSessions/exported-on-<timestamp>/
  • --output=<path>: archives to custom location
  • Session ref (optional): last, last-1, last-2, or UUID

What It Does

  1. Detects current session (most recently modified transcript)
  2. Archives main session transcript (session.jsonl)
  3. Archives subagent transcripts if present (subagents/)
  4. Generates HTML and Markdown files via claude-code-log dependency, or uvx
  5. Opens HTML in browser

Cross-Platform Support

Works on both macOS and Windows (Git Bash / MSYS2). The script handles the different path formats each OS uses for Claude Code's transcript storage.

Claude Code stores transcripts in ~/.claude/projects/<project-hash>/, where <project-hash> is the project path with path separators and : replaced by -.

macOS:

Project path:    /Users/dev/code/my-project
Transcript dir:  ~/.claude/projects/-Users-dev-code-my-project/

Windows (Git Bash / MSYS2):

Native path:     D:\code\my-project
Git Bash pwd:    /d/code/my-project
Transcript dir:  ~/.claude/projects/D--code-my-project/

On Windows, the script detects the MSYS /d/... path format and converts it back to the Windows-native D:/... form before computing the hash. This uses pure string operations (no cygpath dependency).

All bash features used are compatible with macOS's default bash 3.2.

Output Location

Default: docs/process/claudeCodeSessions/exported-on-<timestamp>/

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 8d ago First seen · 167 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 86ef0da31d2a

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archive-session is a skill published in the GitHub repository lifeinchords/claude-code-skills (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,524 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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