# session-crosslink

Attaches an agent session to the HEAD commit of every Entire-enabled repo it touched, even when the session started somewhere else.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 311 installs · ★ 227
- Author: entireio
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/entireio/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/session-crosslink/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-09-29
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/session-crosslink

## What it does

An agent session can run outside the repo whose commits should record it: launched from a parent folder, from a repo without Entire, or from one repo while editing another. This skill finds the session and links it to the HEAD commit of each affected Entire-enabled repo.

It resolves the session id in order. First `entire session current --json` in the current directory, then in a sibling repo with Entire enabled, and finally by reading the runtime transcript — for Claude that means files under `~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/<session-id>.jsonl`, for Codex the `$CODEX_HOME/sessions/` directory. Candidate repos come from your message, from sibling directories, and from the session's edit history. Each one is checked with `entire status --json`.

Nothing is written until you confirm. The skill renders a table of repo, HEAD commit, planned action and checkpoint id, then runs `entire session attach` only for the rows you approve. Each call must run from inside the target repo, because the CLI resolves the repo from cwd. You need `entire` 0.6.2 or newer. One thing to plan for: attach amends HEAD, so every touched repo's local branch diverges from its remote. If those branches have open pull requests, updating them takes `git push --force-with-lease`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add entireio/skills --skill session-crosslink -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add entireio/skills --skill session-crosslink -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add entireio/skills --skill session-crosslink -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install entireio/skills session-crosslink
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/session-crosslink/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add entireio/skills --skill session-crosslink -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/entireio/skills --path skills/session-crosslink
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add entireio/skills --skill session-crosslink -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/entireio/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/session-crosslink/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- link a session to commits in a repo it was not launched from
- recover a session id when Entire never recorded it
- collect every repo touched during one session
- see what attach will change before it writes anything
- reuse an existing checkpoint instead of creating a new one

## Example prompts
- Crosslink this session to the repos I edited: foo and bar api
- The session started in a parent folder — find the affected Entire repos and show me the preview
- Show the attach preview table, then attach the session

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: session-crosslink
description: Use when an agent session ran outside the repo whose commits should record it — e.g. launched from a higher-level folder, a non-Entire repo, or one repo but editing another — to attach the session to each affected Entire-enabled repo's HEAD commit.
---

# Session Crosslink

## Response Format

Begin the first response to this skill invocation with the line:

`Entire Session Crosslink:`

followed by a blank line, then the content. Apply the header to the **first response of the invocation only** — not on follow-up turns and not on error / early-exit responses (no session resolved, no affected repos found).

## STOP — Read these rules before doing ANYTHING

1. **Do NOT ask clarifying questions until the resolver/discovery steps have run.** The session id and candidate repo list usually resolve from `entire session current --json` plus what the user said. Only ask if both come back empty.
2. **Do NOT run `entire session attach` without showing the preview table first.** The whole point of this skill is preview-then-confirm. `attach` amends the target repo's HEAD; previewing wrong means amending the wrong commit.
3. **Always `cd` into the target repo before running `entire session attach`.** The CLI resolves the repo from cwd. Use one `cd … && entire session attach …` per call so each invocation hits the right repo.

Required CLI: `entire` 0.6.2+. No special flags needed — this skill works against the shipped CLI via cwd-scoped `entire session attach`.

## Flow

### Step 1: Resolve the session id

Try each strategy in order until one returns a session id.

**Strategy A: Entire-enabled cwd.**

```bash
entire session current --json
```

If the output is valid JSON **and** has a non-empty `session_id`, read `session_id` and `agent` and continue with those values. If the JSON parses but `session_id` is missing or empty, treat Strategy A as failed and fall through to B — don't proceed to attach with no session id.

**Strategy B: Entire-enabled sibling repo.** If the user named a repo that has Entire enabled (e.g. `the foo repo`), `cd` there and re-try `entire session current --json`. The session state lives wherever the session was tracked.

**Strategy C: Runtime-specific transcript directory.** If neither A nor B works, the session was never recorded by Entire and you must read it from the agent runtime:
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