ChestnutDocumentation
How to install Chestnut, run Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode sessions in it, and find your way around your own history.
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Getting started
Install Chestnut, choose whether to sign in, and understand what the app is doing the first time you open it.
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Terminal and projects
Run Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode sessions in tabs, group them by project, and set the arguments every session starts with.
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Conversations and search
Search your whole Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode history, read a conversation back, and pick one up where you left off.
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Tasks, actions, and notes
What Chestnut works on in the background, the fixes it suggests, and the two places your own writing lives.
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Agents driving Chestnut
Let your Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode sessions report their own progress, open new sessions, search your history, and tidy the session list for you.
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Troubleshooting
What to check when the app is disconnected, a panel is empty, or search is not finding something you know is there.