trace-ingest

Apps & Automation

Publish a local Claude, Codex, or OpenAgents conversation as a public OpenAgents trace at openagents.com/trace/{uuid}. Use when the user wants to take a conversation/session id on this machine, sanitize/redact it, ingest it via the OpenAgents API, and get a shareable /trace/{uuid} URL — repeatably and at scale.

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Local conversation → public /trace/{uuid}

This skill turns a conversation that already exists on this computer (a Claude Code session, a Codex rollout, or an OpenAgents Desktop conversation) into a public OpenAgents trace viewable at https://openagents.com/trace/{uuid}.

It is a thin CLI over machinery that already exists in apps/qa-runner: the ATIF converters, the @openagentsinc/atif public-safety redactor + tripwire, and the POST /api/traces publish transport. Read the audit docs/traces/2026-07-19-local-conversation-public-trace-ingest.md for the full architecture and the server contract.

The one command

Run from the repo (uses tsx, no build/install step):

cd /Users/christopherdavid/work/openagents/apps/qa-runner

# 1) ALWAYS dry-run first — build + redact + validate locally, no upload:
pnpm trace:ingest <conversationId> --dry-run --out /tmp/trace.json --json

# 2) Publish (needs an agent token):
export OPENAGENTS_AGENT_TOKEN=oa_agent_...        # never print or commit this
pnpm trace:ingest <conversationId>                # visibility=public by default

Success prints the shareable URL:

published public trace from claude (303 steps):
  https://openagents.com/trace/1f4c…-…-…

pnpm trace:ingest = node --import tsx src/ingest-conversation-cli.ts.

What a "conversation id" is

Source	id form	where it lives
Claude Code	v4 UUID (the session id)	`~/.claude/projects/<slug>/<id>.jsonl`
Codex	UUIDv7 (trailing in the rollout filename)	`~/.codex/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-*-<id>.jsonl`
OpenAgents Desktop	upper-case UUID	array element in `~/Library/Application Support/<Profile>/KhalaDesktop/conversations.json`

The source is auto-detected (claude → codex → openagents). Force it with --source claude|codex|openagents when an id could be ambiguous.

Flags

-s, --source <kind> — force the source (default auto).
-v, --visibility <public|unlisted|owner_only> — stored visibility. The default is public. unlisted is link-only with no listing. owner_only is private.
--dry-run — build + redact + validate, do not upload.
--out <file> — with --dry-run, write the redacted ATIF JSON for inspection.
--max-steps <n> — cap steps with a default and hard max of 2000. It keeps a valid prefix and notes the truncation. Big coding sessions exceed the server cap. this keeps them ingestible instead of failing.
--agent-name <name>, --model <id> — trajectory header overrides.
--base-url <url> — ingest base (default $OPENAGENTS_BASE_URL or https://openagents.com).
--token <oa_agent_…> — agent bearer (default $OPENAGENTS_AGENT_TOKEN).
--json — machine-readable result (uuid, url, redaction counts).

Safety model (do not weaken)

The CLI deep-redacts the trajectory with the same @openagentsinc/atif redactor the ingest API trusts (home paths, emails, tokens, keys, wallet material, IPs, phone numbers, long blobs, usernames …).
It then runs the public-safety tripwire locally and REFUSES to upload if anything leaky survives — you get finding codes, never a silent leak.
The server redacts + tripwires again and rejects (422) anything unsafe. A public trace is evidence only: it grants no accepted-work, payout, or public-claim authority.

Always --dry-run --out and eyeball the JSON before the first public publish of a sensitive session. Never pass a token on the command line in shared history — prefer OPENAGENTS_AGENT_TOKEN in the environment.

Scaling / repeated use

Publishes are idempotent: re-running the same conversation returns the same uuid (the key is a digest of the redacted trajectory).
To burn down many at once, loop ids through pnpm trace:ingest <id> --json and collect the url field. Server-side rate limit is 120 traces/hour/owner.

Troubleshooting

No local … conversation found for id — wrong id or --source. Confirm the file exists (ls ~/.claude/projects/**/<id>.jsonl, ls ~/.codex/sessions).
Trajectory has no steps — an aborted/empty session (common for tiny Codex rollouts). Nothing to publish.
still trips the public-safety tripwire after redaction — inspect with --dry-run --out and remove the offending content upstream. Do not force it.
no agent token — set OPENAGENTS_AGENT_TOKEN (see the repo Khala runbook).
Cannot create a string longer than … — a pathologically large rollout (hundreds of MB). Use --max-steps or skip it.