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Launch HN: Skillsync (YC W26) – AI chat sessions made portable across agents

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  1. podviaznikov · · focus · HN ↗
    I have made simple macos app to export my claude sessions to markdown(plus ordinal jsonl) and i just continuously sync it to dropbox.

    i do the same for apple notes and imessage. so very portable

    <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;exporter-notes-to-markdown&#x2F;id6741618455?mt=12">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;apps.apple.com&#x2F;us&#x2F;app&#x2F;exporter-notes-to-markdown&#x2F;id6...

    1. Narsagna · · focus · HN ↗
      Cool! Over here we mean portability in a different sense: being able to continue a session in another agent as if the entire conversation history was there the whole time. You should not get locked into one agent simply because you built up a conversation history + memory with that agent

      Also curious, do you further process the synced files on dropbox at all? how are you using them today?

      1. podviaznikov · · focus · HN ↗
        I don&#x27;t do much with most of the sessions.

        In my experience 95% of the session transcript I don&#x27;t care about.

        But there are some that I want to keep and maybe come back one month later.

        Usually it&#x27;s not even engineering-related. Maybe doing some research on visas, relocation.

        But sometime also doing project research and sometime I want to come back to the same topic 2 month later(because new things came up) and I want my new agent to go and read prior conversation.

        1. Narsagna · · focus · HN ↗
          Yeah understandable, with skillsync you can choose for it to proactively tell you about past work that&#x27;s related to what you&#x27;re doing or just access all your past sessions via mcp. It&#x27;s like being a musician that has the record button on the whole time for when the crazy idea strikes
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