Session-logs
Search and analyze your own session logs (older/parent conversations) using jq.
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Search and analyze your own session logs (older/parent conversations) using jq.
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Search your complete conversation history stored in session JSONL files. Use this when a user references older/parent conversations or asks what was said before.
Use this skill when the user asks about prior chats, parent conversations, or historical context that isn’t in memory files.
Session logs live at:
~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/ (use the agent=<id> value from the system prompt Runtime line).
sessions.json - Index mapping session keys to session IDs<session-id>.jsonl - Full conversation transcript per sessionEach
.jsonl file contains messages with:
type: "session" (metadata) or "message"timestamp: ISO timestampmessage.role: "user", "assistant", or "toolResult"message.content[]: Text, thinking, or tool calls (filter type=="text" for human-readable content)message.usage.cost.total: Cost per responsefor f in ~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1) size=$(ls -lh "$f" | awk '{print $5}') echo "$date $size $(basename $f)" done | sort -r
for f in ~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | grep -q "2026-01-06" && echo "$f" done
jq -r 'select(.message.role == "user") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' <session>.jsonl
jq -r 'select(.message.role == "assistant") | .message.content[]? | select(.type == "text") | .text' <session>.jsonl | rg -i "keyword"
jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' <session>.jsonl
for f in ~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl; do date=$(head -1 "$f" | jq -r '.timestamp' | cut -dT -f1) cost=$(jq -s '[.[] | .message.usage.cost.total // 0] | add' "$f") echo "$date $cost" done | awk '{a[$1]+=$2} END {for(d in a) print d, "$"a[d]}' | sort -r
jq -s '{ messages: length, user: [.[] | select(.message.role == "user")] | length, assistant: [.[] | select(.message.role == "assistant")] | length, first: .[0].timestamp, last: .[-1].timestamp }' <session>.jsonl
jq -r '.message.content[]? | select(.type == "toolCall") | .name' <session>.jsonl | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
rg -l "phrase" ~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/*.jsonl
head/tail for samplingsessions.json index maps chat providers (discord, whatsapp, etc.) to session IDs.deleted.<timestamp> suffixjq -r 'select(.type=="message") | .message.content[]? | select(.type=="text") | .text' ~/.clawdbot/agents/<agentId>/sessions/<id>.jsonl | rg 'keyword'
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