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Turn your local Codex session history into a searchable memory that a new coding agent can retrieve from — so past work (how a bug was actually fixed, decisions made, project-specific gotchas) isn't lost when you stop using Codex.

Fully local: your session transcripts never leave your machine. This repo only contains the pipeline code; your extracted data and embeddings stay in data/, which is gitignored.

How it works

Two retrieval tiers, built from the same raw source but at different granularity:

Session-level (coarse, cheap to scan)

1. extract_sessions.py — parse Codex's local rollout files (~/.codex/{sessions,archived_sessions}/**/*.jsonl) into one record per session: first real user request, final agent reply, tool-call names used, project path. Boilerplate (injected environment context, AGENTS.md instructions, plugin suggestions) is stripped so this reflects the actual ask.

2. summarize_sessions.py — compress each session into a short note (task / approach / outcome / gotchas) via a local LLM (qwen2.5:7b-instruct).

3. build_index.py — embed each summary (plus its collapsed tool-call sequence, e.g. exec_command → apply_patch → exec_command) with a local embedding model (bge-m3) into data/index/{vectors.npy,meta.jsonl}.

Turn-level (detailed, close to verbatim)

1. extract_turns.py — walk every raw response item and split each session into turns (one user message + everything the agent did in response: its replies, and every tool call with its actual command/input and the output that came back). Internal Codex sub-conversations (its own approval/risk-assessment loop) are filtered out.

2. build_turn_index.py — embed each turn directly (no LLM compression) into data/index/{turn_vectors.npy,turn_meta.jsonl}.

Retrieve — scripts/search.py (CLI, --detailed flag) or scripts/mcp_server.py (MCP server, detailed param) queries either tier. Any MCP-compatible coding agent (Codex CLI, OpenCode, Goose, Claude Code, ...) can call this to pull relevant past sessions — or the exact commands/fixes from a past turn — into context for a new task.

Neither tier holds the full raw transcript verbatim (that stays in the original ~/.codex rollout files, one file pointer away in every result) — the session tier is an LLM paraphrase, the turn tier is capped-but-largely-verbatim (tool call input/output capped at a few thousand characters each so a handful of huge outputs don't blow up storage).

Related MCP server: Codex Native Memory

Status

Early / personal project, in active use. Both tiers verified end-to-end on ~500 real sessions / ~7,500 turns.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10+ (the MCP SDK needs it; a venv is recommended — see below)

• Ollama, running locally, with two models pulled:

  ollama pull qwen2.5:7b-instruct   # summarization
  ollama pull bge-m3                # embeddings

Setup

python3.1x -m venv .venv
./.venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

# session-level (coarse)
./.venv/bin/python scripts/extract_sessions.py     # ~/.codex -> data/sessions_extracted.jsonl
./.venv/bin/python scripts/summarize_sessions.py   # -> data/sessions_summarized.jsonl (resumable)
./.venv/bin/python scripts/build_index.py          # -> data/index/{vectors.npy,meta.jsonl}

# turn-level (detailed)
./.venv/bin/python scripts/extract_turns.py        # ~/.codex -> data/turns_extracted.jsonl
./.venv/bin/python scripts/build_turn_index.py     # -> data/index/{turn_vectors.npy,turn_meta.jsonl}

# query either tier
./.venv/bin/python scripts/search.py "your task description here"
./.venv/bin/python scripts/search.py --detailed "the exact command I used for X"

As an MCP server

./.venv/bin/python scripts/mcp_server.py

Exposes one tool, search_codex_memory(query, top_k, detailed). Point any MCP-compatible harness at this command (stdio transport) to give it retrieval access to your Codex history. Example (Claude Code .mcp.json / similar config shape used by most MCP clients):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "my-ex": {
      "command": "/absolute/path/to/my-ex/.venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/my-ex/scripts/mcp_server.py"]
    }
  }
}

Or, using the Claude Code CLI directly:

claude mcp add --scope user my-ex -- /absolute/path/to/my-ex/.venv/bin/python /absolute/path/to/my-ex/scripts/mcp_server.py

Privacy

Nothing in data/ is committed (see .gitignore). Session transcripts can contain private code and business content — do not commit extracted data, summaries, or embedding indexes to this repo.

License

MIT