Keep useful context across coding sessions
Resume a conversation, make a fresh thread productive, or carry work into another tool. Pick the guide that matches your next step.
What are you trying to do?
Install Crosshead for Claude Code or Codex
Install Crosshead, connect Claude Code or Codex, and verify that working memory reaches a fresh session. Includes requirements and troubleshooting.
Claude Code resume session: continue or start fresh?
Use Claude Code --continue and --resume, or start a fresh thread with a handoff. Learn what each keeps and when Crosshead helps.
Claude Code /compact: keep the details that matter
What Claude Code compaction preserves, how to checkpoint exact requirements, and what our small Crosshead compaction test actually measured.
Codex vs Claude Code: carry context between them
Switch between Claude Code and Codex without losing task decisions. Compare native resume, Markdown handoffs and Crosshead shared memory.
Memory MCP servers: compare storage and workflow
Compare memory MCP tools, project instructions, handoff files and Crosshead. Choose by capture, retrieval, privacy and how you verify recall.
Cursor memory: rules, MCP and Crosshead setup
Understand Cursor rules and memory tools. Configure the existing Crosshead MCP bridge locally, with clear availability and automation limits.
Check the evidence
Our continuity eval compares fresh threads, written handoffs, Crosshead and native resume. It includes costs and limitations so you can choose a workflow for your own project.