Feature request: Full-text search across past conversations

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 20, 2026 by danutmitrut Closed Mar 24, 2026

Problem

The /resume picker and its search (/ key) only filter by conversation name or first message. There's no way to find a past conversation where a specific topic, API, function, or decision was discussed.

Use case

Power users accumulate hundreds of conversations. When you need to find "that session where I configured Supabase RLS" or "where we discussed the auth middleware rewrite", there's no native way to search through message content.

Workaround built

I created a lightweight Node.js script that searches through all .jsonl files in ~/.claude/projects/, parses every message, and returns ranked results with context snippets. Zero dependencies, read-only.

Repo: https://github.com/danutmitrut/claude-chat-search

Proposal

Add a native full-text search option to the /resume session picker — something like a "Search content" toggle alongside the existing name filter.

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