Session Logs

Session Logs

Search your complete conversation history stored in session Markdown files.

When to Use

✅ USE this skill when:

• "What did we talk about yesterday?"
• "Find the conversation where I asked about X"
• "How many sessions have I had?"
• "What was the decision we made about Y?"
• User references a past conversation not in current context

When NOT to Use

❌ DON'T use this skill when:

• Current session context → already in your message history
• Application error logs → use read_file on log files directly
• Non-PythonClaw logs → use run_command with grep/rg

Session File Location

Session files are stored under ~/.pythonclaw/context/sessions/.

Each session is a Markdown file named <session_id>.md containing the full conversation transcript.

Commands

List all sessions by date and size

ls -lhS ~/.pythonclaw/context/sessions/*.md

Search across ALL sessions for a keyword

python {skill_path}/search_sessions.py "keyword"

Or with grep:

grep -rl "keyword" ~/.pythonclaw/context/sessions/*.md

Read a specific session

cat ~/.pythonclaw/context/sessions/<session_id>.md

Count sessions

ls ~/.pythonclaw/context/sessions/*.md | wc -l

Notes

• Session files are append-only Markdown
• Large sessions can be several hundred KB — use head/tail for sampling
• Session IDs follow the pattern <channel>_<id> (e.g. telegram_123456, web_default)
• The history_detail.jsonl file contains structured tool-call logs

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