Prompt history viewer: dedicated screen to browse/search past inputs

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 28, 2026 by Alex-R-A Closed Apr 29, 2026

Feature Request

A dedicated screen or panel to browse and search through prior user prompts in the current session, separate from the full conversation scrollback.

Current Behavior

  • Up/Down arrows cycle through prompt history one-by-one
  • Ctrl+R does reverse text search
  • Full conversation is in terminal scrollback, but prompts are interleaved with (often lengthy) responses

Requested Behavior

A viewer (e.g., triggered by a keyboard shortcut or slash command like /history) that shows only the user's prompts in a scrollable list, with:

  • Prompt text (truncated to first line or N chars)
  • Timestamp or relative position
  • Ability to select and re-use a prompt
  • Optional text search/filter

Motivation

In long sessions (especially multi-hour coding sessions with many tool calls), the conversation can be thousands of lines. Finding a specific earlier prompt requires scrolling through tool output, code blocks, and agent results. The arrow-key cycling works for recent prompts but is impractical for prompts from early in the session.

This is particularly useful for:

  • Re-running a complex prompt that worked well
  • Remembering what you asked 2 hours ago after context has shifted
  • Auditing what instructions were given during a long autonomous session

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