i’ve been using ai-assisted coding tools a lot over the past couple of months. one thing i realized is that nowadays, with everyone adapting to these tools, building something is not just about the code anymore. it’s more about the intent and the back and forth conversations with the agent. the quick prompts, the questions, the moments you decide to take a different path. that’s where the decisions really live. those conversations carry the “why” behind a feature: - why it exists - the reasoning for a design choice - the trade offs along the way - why something was dropped they show how our intent evolves as we build. the problem is that once the code is written, all of that context usually disappears. the code tells you what was done, but not why it was done that way. saving and linking the why makes it easier for someone else to step in, understand decisions, and collaborate effectively. it helps reviewers and teammates follow the reasoning. it even helps future us, when we come back months later and wonder why we made a certain choice. software isn’t just the output of code anymore but more of a trail of decisions and intent. i think we need better ways to keep that trail visible, and that’s exactly the problem we’re working on at @specstoryai, designing a flow where the "why" flows with the "what".

we had "man weeks". now we have "Claude weeks".

Tip: Add "cleanupPeriodDays": 9999 (or any value) to prevent Claude Code from auto deleting your session history. Default is 30 if not set.

Love seeing BearClaude pop up in the wild 🐻✨ From @lennysan's Slack: “If you want to author docs for AI development without an IDE, and still have them live in your repo alongside the code, BearClaude makes it beautiful.” We’re humbled to see this kind of love so early 🤎 We’re just getting started → bearclaude.specstory.com

Product Thinking for Agentic Development with @awakenjake and @intellectronica is happening in less than 24 hrs tomorrow August 19th at 2 pm EDT. Can't make the session? No worries: slides, source code, 2 handouts on Lessons Learned and Patterns of Prompting + the recording will be added after and is available here: get.specstory.com/ptwa

Join us to upgrade your Product Thinking for Agentic Development. get.specstory.com/product-th… → Live-build a feature for tnyOffice in 15 minutes (you will help us code along) → Leave you with actionable handouts: top "25 lessons learned" and "Patterns of Prompting" August 19th 2pm EDT 👇 LIVE on Maven. Hosted by @intellectronica @awakenjake @gregce10

Leverage SpecStory for this. I go first with ideas, want to capture the moment, explore different things then I combine what I think is best and write the plan/more detailed spec using the previous chats, then execute.

Agents aren’t the bottleneck. Clarity is. In 45 minutes, get @awakenjake and @gregce10 's playbook to turn intent → specs → shipped outcomes with. Hosted by @intellectronica and @isaac_flath. Live + free, Tue Aug 19 @ 2pm ET on Maven get.specstory.com/product-th…

Wanna create a product hero video like ☝️ with remotion.dev and claude code? Join a free Lightning Lesson on Maven this Wednesday, April 6th @ 1 PM to learn how with @gregce10 and @IsaacFlath Sign up: maven.com/p/5750c3/build-a-p…

Curious how AI chat exports differ? We were 🙌. In 60 seconds, our engineer @bago2k4 compares markdown from SpecStory to native exports from GitHub Copilot and Cursor.

AI coding's biggest unsolved problem? losing the "why" behind your code discovered @specstoryai while manunally crawling repos and stumbled upon a little folder named .specstory that houses your Cursor/Claude/Copilot history and other related context they're pioneering solutions to preserve intent in agentic IDE platforms this even works across teams can't wait to see how their ecosystem evolves- this is such a great start to what's missing in AI IDEs

export claude code conversations into specstory specstory once again delivers, one of the best extension in town docs.specstory.com/specstory…

Just released SpecStory CLI for @claude_code. Its a lightweight wrapper that auto-saves your chat history to clean markdown to version alongside your code. We'd love if you checked it out. Via Homebrew: brew tap specstoryai/tap brew install specstory Other install options from our docs: docs.specstory.com/specstory…

The extension to automatically save all your chat history in cursor is called SpecStory, it will automatically maintain a folder in your repo:

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We 🤟love being considered a default

Fun feature day on VSC Marketplace for @specstoryai. Lot more in store with @awakenjake.

Four months ago, SpecStory had one golden child: Cursor. We said we’d wait before adding more. Fine. You win. SpecStory now supports GitHub Copilot for VSCode. Two editors. Agent chaos fully documented. 🔌 Install us from VSC Marketplace: marketplace.visualstudio.com…