Feature request: Import or continue claude.ai conversations in Claude Code
Problem
There is no way to bring a conversation from claude.ai (web/desktop) into Claude Code. The two products share the same underlying model and company, but their conversation histories are completely siloed.
A very common workflow is:
- Brainstorm or scope out an idea with Claude on claude.ai (easier for long-form discussion, mobile, etc.).
- Move to Claude Code to actually implement it.
Today the only way to carry context across is to ask claude.ai to summarize the discussion into a markdown blob and paste it into Claude Code. That works, but it feels like the wrong answer within the same Claude platform — especially when third-party MCP integrations (Slack, Notion, Gmail, Google Drive, etc.) can pull in external conversations, yet Claude's own conversation history cannot.
Current workaround
- Ask claude.ai to produce a markdown summary / brief
- Copy-paste it into Claude Code as initial context
- Lose nuance, intermediate reasoning, and attachments along the way
Proposed solutions (any of these would help)
- First-party claude.ai MCP server — search and fetch past claude.ai conversations from inside Claude Code, the same way the Slack/Notion MCPs work.
claude --import <conversation-id>/ \"Continue in Claude Code\" button — a direct handoff from a claude.ai conversation into a new Claude Code session with the transcript as context.- Structured export format — at minimum, make the claude.ai \"Export data\" output trivially consumable by Claude Code (e.g.
claude --import-export ./export.zip).
Why this matters
It is genuinely strange that Claude Code can read my Slack DMs and Notion pages but cannot read the conversation I had with Claude itself thirty minutes ago. Closing this gap would make Claude feel like a single continuous assistant across surfaces instead of two disconnected products that happen to share a name.
Environment
- Claude Code CLI
- claude.ai web + desktop
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