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Threadhelm

A local desktop app for your AI coding sessions: their history in one place, and clean handoffs from one session to the next.

Type: Desktop app for AI coding sessions
Platforms: Linux
Year: 2026
Status: Not released yet

Threadhelm on first run: it has found 6,184 earlier AI coding sessions across 11 projects and shows the first results while the scan continues. — First run: your old sessions, found

Threadhelm search for a past bug across sessions, commits and decisions, with a preview of the matching session. — One search across every session

Threadhelm handoff editor: the goal, constraints, decisions and open questions for the next session, each with its source. — A handoff the next session can trust

Screens from the design. Screenshots of the app arrive with the public alpha.

The problem

AI coding agents work in long sessions spread across terminals and folders. Finding what was decided, or handing the work to the next session, means digging through raw logs.

What I’m building

A local desktop app that brings Claude Code and Codex session history into one searchable place per project and helps prepare a reviewed handoff for the next session. It runs on your machine, and your code and conversations stay there. The first slice, a small background service connected to the desktop app, works today; history browsing and handoffs come next.

What changed

Threadhelm isn’t released yet. What it changes in practice will be here once people use it.

Not released yet. In the workshop.