timeline-report

Timeline Report

Generate a comprehensive narrative analysis of a project's entire development history using claude-mem's persistent memory timeline.

When to Use

Use when users ask for:

• "Write a timeline report"
• "Journey into [project]"
• "Analyze my project history"
• "Full project report"
• "Summarize the entire development history"
• "What's the story of this project?"

Prerequisites

The claude-mem worker must be running on localhost:37777. The project must have claude-mem observations recorded.

Workflow

Step 1: Determine the Project Name

Ask the user which project to analyze if not obvious from context. The project name is typically the directory name of the project (e.g., "tokyo", "my-app"). If the user says "this project", use the current working directory's basename.

Worktree Detection: Before using the directory basename, check if the current directory is a git worktree. In a worktree, the data source is the parent project, not the worktree directory itself. Run:

git_dir=$(git rev-parse --git-dir 2>/dev/null)
git_common_dir=$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir 2>/dev/null)
if [ "$git_dir" != "$git_common_dir" ]; then
  # We're in a worktree — resolve the parent project name
  parent_project=$(basename "$(dirname "$git_common_dir")")
  echo "Worktree detected. Parent project: $parent_project"
else
  parent_project=$(basename "$PWD")
fi
echo "$parent_project"

If a worktree is detected, use $parent_project (the basename of the parent repo) as the project name for all API calls. Inform the user: "Detected git worktree. Using parent project '[name]' as the data source."

Step 2: Fetch the Full Timeline

Use Bash to fetch the complete timeline from the claude-mem worker API:

curl -s "http://localhost:37777/api/context/inject?project=PROJECT_NAME&full=true"

This returns the entire compressed timeline -- every observation, session boundary, and summary across the project's full history. The response is pre-formatted markdown optimized for LLM consumption.