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Extract conversation turns from AI session history files (.jsonl)

Install

npx skills add axoviq-ai/synthadoc --skill session -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
axoviq-ai/synthadoc1.7k
Category
Engineering
Updated
3d ago
License
AGPL-3.0-or-later
Context cost
Lightabout 803 tokens
Runs scripts
Yes, review before use

What it does

Extract conversation turns from AI session history files (.jsonl)

Session Skill

Extracts human-readable conversation turns from AI coding session history files (.jsonl). Supports two formats:

  • Claude Code, the JSONL format written by Anthropic's Claude Code CLI (~/.claude/projects/<hash>/<session-id>.jsonl)
  • Codex / Cursor, the simpler {"role": ..., "content": ...} per-line format used by OpenAI Codex and Cursor IDE sessions

Format is detected automatically from the first parseable line.

What gets extracted

Only substantive conversation turns are kept:

Content typeAction
User text messagesKept if ≥ 3 words
Assistant text responsesKept if ≥ 20 words
Assistant thinking blocksSkipped (internal reasoning, not final output)
Tool use / tool result blocksSkipped (avoids leaking file contents or credentials)
Image / attachment blocksSkipped
Sub-agent scaffolding (isSidechain: true)Skipped (internal sub-agent turns)
Session metadata linesSkipped (permission-mode, file-history-snapshot, system, last-prompt)

The extracted text is then passed through Synthadoc's standard pre-LLM source sanitizer (zero-width characters, bidi overrides, HTML comments, hidden CSS spans, base64 blobs, instruction-override phrases), exactly like PDF, DOCX, URL, and every other source type.

Output format

Each turn is labelled [USER] or [ASSISTANT] and separated by ---:

[USER]
How do I implement a sliding window algorithm?

---

[ASSISTANT]
A sliding window algorithm maintains a contiguous subarray (the "window") …

suggested_slug

The skill returns a suggested_slug in metadata derived from the session file's modification time and the first substantive user message:

session-2026-07-15-how-do-i-implement-a-sliding

Large sessions, chunking

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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