Spool

Your local AI session library.

Spool collects every Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, and OpenCode session you've ever had into a sidebar of projects you can browse, pin, and revisit. Press ⌘K to search across the whole archive.

Early stage. Spool is under active development — expect rough edges. Feedback, bug reports, and ideas are very welcome via Issues or Discord.

Install

curl -fsSL https://spool.pro/install.sh | bash

macOS / Apple Silicon only. Or build from source:

pnpm install
pnpm build
# DMG is in packages/app/dist/

What it does

Spool turns the pile of AI sessions sitting on your disk into a browsable library.

• Library shell — sidebar of projects (derived from working-dir paths across agents) and a main pane that shows recent + pinned sessions for whatever you've selected
• Session indexing — watches Claude/Codex/Gemini session dirs and OpenCode's SQLite database in real time, including profile-based paths like ~/.claude-profiles/*/projects, ~/.codex-profiles/*/sessions, Gemini's project temp dirs under ~/.gemini/tmp/*/chats, and ~/.local/share/opencode/opencode.db
• Pin — keep important sessions on top of their project and on the global Library Home
• ⌘K search — fast full-text search scoped to All or the current project; AI mode synthesizes answers across fragments
• Agent search — a /spool skill inside Claude Code (and any ACP agent) feeds matching fragments back into your conversation

Everything stays on your machine. Nothing leaves.

Looking for connectors (Twitter / GitHub / Reddit / etc.)? They now live in Spool Daemon, a sibling app focused on syncing platform data.

Architecture

packages/
  app/      Electron macOS app (React + Vite + Tailwind)
  core/     Indexing engine (SQLite + FTS5)
  cli/      CLI interface (`spool search ...`)
  landing/  spool.pro website

Development

pnpm install
pnpm exec electron-rebuild -f -w better-sqlite3   # rebuild native modules for Electron
pnpm dev          # starts app + landing in dev mode
pnpm test         # runs all tests

Note: The electron-rebuild step is required whenever you run pnpm install or switch Node.js versions. Without it, the Electron app will crash at launch with a NODE_MODULE_VERSION mismatch error from better-sqlite3.

If you switch between Node-side tests and Electron app/e2e runs, rebuild better-sqlite3 for the matching runtime:

pnpm run rebuild:native:node      # before @spool/core / Node-based tests
pnpm run rebuild:native:electron  # before launching the Electron app or e2e tests

Dev DB isolation

pnpm dev points Spool at ~/.spool-dev/ instead of your real ~/.spool/, so iterating on schema migrations or destructive maintenance never touches the database you actually use. The dev DB starts empty; seed it from your real one only when you want realistic data:

pnpm --filter @spool/app dev:seed-from-prod   # copies ~/.spool/ → ~/.spool-dev/
pnpm --filter @spool/app dev:reset-db         # wipes ~/.spool-dev/

Override the dev location with SPOOL_DATA_DIR=/some/path pnpm dev. The isolation kicks in automatically in dev mode; production builds always use the real ~/.spool/.

Release

./scripts/release.sh        # bump version, push tag, dispatch CI release workflow

Build + signing happen in GitHub Actions (see .github/workflows/release.yml) so releases are never tied to a local developer certificate. The script blocks until CI finishes; artifacts appear on the release page when it returns.

To test a local build without cutting a release, use pnpm --filter @spool/app build:mac.

License

MIT

Trademark

"Spool" and the Spool logo are trademarks of TypeSafe Limited. The MIT License above covers the source code only and does not grant permission to use the Spool name or logo. See the trademark notice in LICENSE for details.