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name: transcript-recovery description: Recover full conversation history after context compaction. Use when context window is compacted and Claude needs to access earlier parts of the conversation, when user asks about what was discussed before, or when Claude needs to continue work from a previous session. Reads from /mnt/transcripts/ directory.

Transcript Recovery

Recover full conversation history from /mnt/transcripts/ after context compaction.

Quick Start

# Copy script to working directory and run
cp /path/to/skill/scripts/get_transcript.py /home/claude/
python3 /home/claude/get_transcript.py --list

Usage

Command	Description
--list	List all available transcripts
--all	Combine all transcripts chronologically
--messages	Extract clean human/assistant messages
--search <query>	Search across all transcripts
--file <n>	Read specific transcript
--tail <n>	Last N lines only
--output <path>	Save to file

Common Workflows

After Compaction - Recover Context

python3 /home/claude/get_transcript.py --all --messages

Find Specific Discussion

python3 /home/claude/get_transcript.py --search "topic keyword"

Export Full History for User

python3 /home/claude/get_transcript.py --all --messages -o /mnt/user-data/outputs/history.txt

Notes

• Transcripts location: /mnt/transcripts/ (read-only)
• Files contain JSON with unicode escapes - script decodes to UTF-8 automatically
• journal.txt contains transcript metadata and descriptions
• Script must be copied to /home/claude/ before execution