Making AI coding sessions persistent across agents
Drift is a tool designed to make AI coding sessions persistent and transferable across different AI agents like Claude, GPT, and Gemini. It captures reasoning, decisions, and rejected approaches in a structured markdown format, enabling seamless handoffs when switching models. By integrating with git, it preserves AI-generated context and supports auditability, blame tracking, and collaboration without relying on any single vendor.
- ▪Drift captures AI coding session context, including decisions made and approaches rejected, into a portable markdown brief.
- ▪It integrates with git to bind AI sessions to commits using git notes, preserving attribution across agents.
- ▪The tool supports local-first operation, ensuring session data stays on the user's machine and does not leave unless explicitly configured.
- ▪Drift enables cross-agent handoffs, allowing a new AI agent to resume work without re-explaining context.
- ▪It provides commands like drift blame and drift log to trace code back to its originating AI session, prompt, and agent.
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| Original publisher | GitHub |
| Canonical URL | https://github.com/ShellFans-Kirin/drift_ai |
| Publication time | Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:30:44 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-04-28T13:39:31.944Z |
| Last seen | 2026-04-28T13:39:31.944Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | RUYGO1XnJGl6 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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🌐 English · 日本語 · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 drift_ai Vendor-neutral handoff for AI coding tasks — between Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, local LLMs. Reads from Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Aider. Local-first. 🧠 AI coding breaks when you switch agents Claude stalls. Codex refuses. Cursor goes off-track. You spend 30 minutes re-explaining context you already solved. What decisions were made? What approaches already failed? Which file you were editing? 👉 None of that survives a session. ❌ Git tracks code — not AI reasoning Git shows what changed. It does NOT tell you: why it was written what was rejected which agent produced it what context led here That reasoning disappears.
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