Search past Claude conversations for keywords e.g. claudesearch -h

claudesearch

claudesearch() {
  if [[ "$1" == "-h" || "$1" == "--help" || $# -eq 0 ]]; then
    echo "Usage: claudesearch <keyword> [keyword2 ...]"
    echo "       claudesearch -r <session-id>"
    echo ""
    echo "Options:"
    echo "  -h          Show this help"
    echo "  -r <id>     Resume a session by ID"
    echo ""
    echo "Examples:"
    echo "  claudesearch bull quantize"
    echo "  claudesearch 'ADK agents'"
    return 0
  fi

  if [[ "$1" == "-r" ]]; then
    claude -r "$2"
    return
  fi

  local files
  files="$(grep -rl "$1" ~/.claude/projects/**/*.jsonl)"
  shift
  for kw in "$@"; do
    files="$(echo "$files" | xargs grep -l "$kw")"
  done

  echo "$files" | while read f; do
    local first_msg
    first_msg=$(jq -r '
      select(.type == "user") |
      .message.content |
      if type == "string" then . else (.[] | select(.type == "text") | .text) end
    ' "$f" | grep -Evm1 '^\s*<' | cut -c1-80)

    [[ -z "$first_msg" ]] && continue

    echo "$(basename "$f" .jsonl)"
    echo "  $first_msg"
  done 2>/dev/null | grep -v "^first_msg="
}