ctx Agent History Search

Use ctx whenever you need to reference previous coding-agent sessions. Those transcripts can contain user intent, decisions, previous work timelines, past attempts, and what worked or failed.

Use this skill in two modes:

• retrieval before work, when prior sessions may contain decisions, commands, failures, or source citations that affect the current task;
• history research reports, when the user asks an agent or read-only subagent to research a historical topic across prior local agent sessions.

Prerequisites

• Require the ctx CLI to be installed and set up. If it is missing and installing tools is appropriate for the task, install it with: