How to Search Your Claude Code Conversation History

Searching your Claude Code conversation history can be challenging since the code saves every conversation as JSONL under the ~/.claude/projects/ directory. While you can retrieve the full record of prompts, reasoning, and tool calls, finding specific conversations among the stored data requires specialized tools or methods. The introduction of PonyMux 0.10 brings full-text search capabilities directly into the interface you already use for working with agents.

By pressing Cmd+K within the interface, you can search for keywords in both terminal names and conversation content. This search spans every prompt, response, and tool usage recorded during your interactions. The search results highlight matched snippets, show the session title, agent type, and last activity time, making it easy to identify the relevant conversation.

The search index is built separately from your metadata and Terminal data, stored in a SQLite database named search.db, and updates automatically as new conversations are generated. A notable change includes the display of the last conversation within a sleeping Terminal, providing a more informative snapshot of the agent's previous activities.

This enhancement allows you to resume conversations from previous sessions rather than just the most recent one, significantly improving the workflow when investigating specific discussions or debugging. Although the search functionality is limited to locally stored conversations and has a 30-day retention window, it significantly streamlines the retrieval process for archived interactions without relying on external tools or services.