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ThreadShelf
ThreadShelf provides a local-first archive, semantic search, and conversation continuation across multiple AI providers.
ThreadShelf is a local-first archive, semantic search, and continuation tool for AI conversations. It unifies chat history from ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI Studio, OpenRouter, LM Studio, and Grok into a single private workspace. Users export their chats as JSON, parse them into a common format, and store them locally in a LanceDB vector database. The pipeline runs locally, offering multilingual semantic search and exact-match retrieval alongside an HTTP API and MCP server. For generation, it supports local GGUF inference via llama.cpp or optional OpenRouter streaming.
ThreadShelf at a glance
Key features
- Multi-provider chat archiving
- Local semantic and exact search
- Complete thread reconstruction
- Managed llama.cpp inference
- HTTP API and MCP stdio server
- Obsidian and Markdown integration
Use it for
- Find an old discussion by meaning
- Locate an exact error or code fragment
- Continue an archived conversation locally
- Search connected Markdown vaults
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