# claude-history-ingest

Distills past Claude Code sessions into structured Obsidian wiki notes. Useful for preserving project context and mining technical takeaways from chat logs.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 3000 installs · ★ 3621
- Author: Ar9av
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki/tree/HEAD/.skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-21
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/claude-history-ingest

## What it does

This skill inspects CLI session data in `~/.claude/` and desktop app logs to compile knowledge notes in Obsidian. It checks `.manifest.json` at the vault root first. This avoids re-processing unchanged sessions. When a project lacks structured memory files, the skill samples only the three newest conversations to keep context lean.

Raw JSONL files are mostly tool calls, snapshots, and thinking events. The companion script `scripts/extract-jsonl.py` cuts file sizes by 50–200x, turning a 12 MB log into roughly 64 KB of dialogue. Processing raw logs directly without this pre-extraction step will burn through your token window rapidly.

Configuration relies on `OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH` and `CLAUDE_HISTORY_PATH`. You can silence specific repositories by passing comma-separated names in `WIKI_SKIP_PROJECTS`.

## Requirements
- Works with: Obsidian

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill claude-history-ingest -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/claude-history-ingest/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill claude-history-ingest -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill claude-history-ingest -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install Ar9av/obsidian-wiki claude-history-ingest
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill claude-history-ingest -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --path .skills/claude-history-ingest
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add Ar9av/obsidian-wiki --skill claude-history-ingest -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/Ar9av/obsidian-wiki/tree/HEAD/.skills/claude-history-ingest/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- distill Claude Code session logs into an Obsidian wiki
- strip tool calls and thinking noise from raw JSONL
- track ingested conversations using a vault manifest
- sample conversation history without exhausting the token budget

## Example prompts
- Run /wiki-history-ingest claude to process recent sessions into the vault
- Execute claude-history-ingest in append mode for newly modified projects
- Ingest Claude Code history into Obsidian while skipping projects listed in WIKI_SKIP_PROJECTS

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: claude-history-ingest
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  Ingest Claude Code conversation/session history into Obsidian as distilled knowledge. Use for importing or mining past Claude sessions, .claude data, project/session history, or audit logs.
---

# Claude History Ingest — Conversation Mining

You are extracting knowledge from the user's past Claude Code conversations and distilling it into the Obsidian wiki. Conversations are rich but messy — your job is to find the signal and compile it.

This skill can be invoked directly or via the `wiki-history-ingest` router (`/wiki-history-ingest claude`).

## Before You Start

**Writing profile:** Before drafting or rewriting natural-language Markdown, read and apply the `Writing Profile Resolution` section in `llm-wiki/SKILL.md`. Framework schema, provenance, safety, and operation-specific requirements take precedence.
`WRITING.md` preferences apply only to newly drafted or rewritten natural-language Markdown; preserve source content and structured records.

1. **Resolve config** — follow the Config Resolution Protocol in `llm-wiki/SKILL.md` (inline `@name` override → walk up CWD for `.env` → global config → prompt setup). This gives `OBSIDIAN_VAULT_PATH` and `CLAUDE_HISTORY_PATH` (defaults to `~/.claude`)
2. Read `.manifest.json` at the vault root to check what's already been ingested
3. Read `index.md` at the vault root to know what the wiki already contains
4. **Project Scoping** — read `WIKI_SKIP_PROJECTS` from config (comma-separated substrings). Exclude any project directory whose name contains one of them from **every** step below (scan, delta, sampling, manifest writes). If the user names extra projects to skip this run, add them. Apply the exclusion **once, uniformly** — don't hand-write `grep -v` filters into individual commands, which drifts between the scan and manifest steps.

## Ingest Modes

### Append Mode (default)

Check `.manifest.json` for each source file (conversation JSONL, memory file). Only process:

- Files not in the manifest (new conversations, new memory files, new projects)
- Files whose modification time is newer than their `ingested_at` in the manifest

This is usually what you want — the user ran a few new sessions and wants to capture the delta.
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