continues

You hit the rate limit mid-debug. 30 messages of context — file changes, architecture decisions, half-finished refactors — and now you either wait hours or start fresh in another tool. continues grabs your session from whichever AI coding tool you were using and hands it off to another one. Conversation history, file changes, working state — all of it comes along.

npx continues

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Supported tools

16 AI coding agents, any-to-any handoff:

Claude Code · Codex · GitHub Copilot CLI · Gemini CLI · Cursor · Amp · Cline · Roo Code · Kilo Code · Kiro · Crush · OpenCode · Factory Droid · Antigravity · Kimi CLI · Qwen Code

That's 240 cross-tool handoff paths. Pick any source, pick any destination — it works.

Install

No install needed — just run npx continues. Or install globally:

npm install -g continues    # gives you `continues` and `cont`

How it works

1. Discovery — scans session directories for all 16 tools
2. Parsing — reads each tool's native format (JSONL, JSON, SQLite, YAML — they're all different)
3. Extraction — pulls recent messages, file changes, tool activity, AI reasoning
4. Handoff — generates a structured context doc and injects it into the target tool

The handoff document is designed so the receiving agent immediately understands what you were doing, what files were touched, what commands ran, and what's left to do.

Usage

Interactive (default)

Just run continues. It finds all your sessions, lets you pick one, and asks where to continue:

┌  continues — pick up where you left off
│
│  Found 1842 sessions across 16 CLI tools
│    claude: 723  codex: 72  cursor: 68  copilot: 39  ...
│
◆  Select a session
│  [claude]   2026-02-19 05:28  my-project    Debugging SSH tunnel config   84a36c5d
│  [copilot]  2026-02-19 04:41  my-project    Migrate presets from Electron c2f5974c
│  [codex]    2026-02-18 23:12  my-project    Fix OpenCode SQLite parser    a1e90b3f
│  ...
└

◆  Continue in:
│  ○ Gemini   ○ Codex   ○ Amp   ○ Kiro   ...
└

When you run from a project directory, sessions from that directory are prioritized.

Quick resume

Skip the picker entirely — resume the Nth most recent session from a tool:

continues claude        # latest Claude session
continues codex 3       # 3rd most recent Codex
continues amp           # latest Amp
continues cline         # latest Cline
continues kiro          # latest Kiro
continues crush         # latest Crush
continues kimi          # latest Kimi
continues qwen-code     # latest Qwen Code

Works for all 16 tools. This uses native resume — same tool, full history, no context injection.

Cross-tool handoff

This is the main thing. Start in one tool, finish in another:

# Hit the Claude rate limit? Hand it off to Gemini:
continues resume abc123 --in gemini

# Or pass flags through to the destination tool:
continues resume abc123 --in codex --yolo --search --add-dir /tmp

# Or print the exact handoff prompt without launching the target tool:
continues resume abc123 --in codex --debug-prompt

continues maps common flags (model, sandbox, auto-approve, extra dirs) to the target tool's equivalent. Anything it doesn't recognize gets passed through as-is.