Sesame

Name: Sesame
Author: qiwei66

@qiwei66MCP server · External

Search and open dashboards, reports, decks and PRs that Claude Code and Codex made on your Mac.

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How to install

Runs on your machine from its package; the steps are below.

What it does

Reads
Writes
High impact

Not assessed yet.

What it costs

Free

Odel charges nothing per call. The publisher may charge for its own service.

Runs locally

This server runs on your machine over stdio, but its source registry didn't list a distribution package. Check the source repository for setup instructions.

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Sesame

Stop digging through chats.
Your library of AI creations: say a sentence and get back anything Claude Code or Codex delivered.

_{Install in two lines (macOS 13+):}

bash

brew install qiwei66/tap/sesame
sesame

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Sesame's first run: 'Just say it. It's there.' with a count of 313 AI creations rolling up from zero, split into dashboards, reports, sites, PRs and files

▶ Watch the full promo (45 s)

Before: scroll through 20 chats to find yesterday's dashboard. Now: say "yesterday's dashboard".

Your AI builds dashboards, reports, decks, sites and pull requests. A week later they are buried in long chats. Sesame keeps a local library of every artifact your AI delivered, so a few words bring it back: the artifact itself, not the chat it came from.

Session viewers show you the conversation. Sesame opens what the conversation produced.

What it does

Type, and it's already there

Results show up with the first letters. ↑ ↓ to pick, ↵ to open. If nothing local fits, ↵ lets Sesame search everything.

Typing 'tra' lists the Trading Dashboard first; 'trading da' narrows to it; 'trading dashboard v2' offers a full search

Holding the hot key: a waveform and a live transcript, then on release the Trading Dashboard opens

Hold the hot key and say it

Hot key: ⌥⇧Space (switch to ⌘Space in Settings). Tap it to type; hold it to talk, let go to send. "Open last week's trading dashboard" opens the dashboard itself.

Useful the moment you install it

On first launch it reads your existing Claude Code and Codex history and counts every artifact your AI delivered.

First run: 'Just say it. It's there.' and 313 AI creations counted up, split into dashboards, reports, sites, PRs and files

Three candidates for the trading dashboard; arrow keys move the selection and Return opens it

More than one match? Pick one

When several names fit, you get a short list instead of a guess; when none fits, it says so instead of offering filler. Local services, Claude pages, files, PRs, sites and online docs all count.

Share on the first-run panel turns your number into a 1200×675 image, saves it to Downloads and copies it, ready to paste into a post. Only counts are on it: no titles, paths or names.

Share card: 'My 313 AI creations, one sentence away.' with counts by type

Install

bash

brew install qiwei66/tap/sesame
sesame

sesame puts Sesame.app in ~/Applications and starts it; run it again any time (an older copy from make install is kept as Sesame.app.bak-<time>). Homebrew brings Node.js, builds the app from source on your Mac and ad-hoc signs it: no Gatekeeper warning, no Apple Developer account needed. The first install compiles the app and takes a few minutes; it needs the Xcode Command Line Tools (xcode-select --install), which Homebrew itself already requires.

Or install from source (Node.js 22.18+ and the Xcode Command Line Tools, xcode-select --install):

bash

git clone https://github.com/qiwei66/sesame.git
cd sesame
make install
open ~/Applications/Sesame.app

make uninstall removes it and keeps your settings. The hot key is ⌥⇧Space; switch to ⌘Space in Settings › Hot key.

Use it in Claude Code

Sesame also runs inside Claude Code as a plugin. Ask in plain words in any session and Claude looks it up in your library, then opens it on your Mac. The app is optional: without it, the plugin builds the same local index from your Claude Code and Codex history; with it, both share one index.

bash

claude plugin marketplace add qiwei66/sesame && claude plugin install sesame@sesame

Inside a session, /plugin marketplace add qiwei66/sesame and then /plugin install sesame@sesame do the same. It needs Node.js 22.18+ with npm, which Claude Code uses to install the plugin's packages.

You: Where is the trading dashboard from last week?

Claude: (search_artifacts → open_artifact) Found it: your Trading Dashboard is a local web service at http://127.0.0.1:8787, last seen on September 27. It's opening in your browser now.

You: Open the report I made yesterday

Claude: (search_artifacts → open_artifact) Found yesterday's report, Q3 sales report (a Markdown file), and opened it.

Already installed the app with Homebrew or make install? Its va works as an MCP server too: claude mcp add sesame -- va mcp.

Three tools: search_artifacts (title, type, link, time and source session of each match), open_artifact and artifact_stats. Any other MCP client can run the same server with va mcp; see docs/mcp.md.

Privacy

The index stays on your Mac (~/Library/Application Support/Sesame) and is never uploaded.
Sesame only reads ~/.claude/projects and ~/.codex/sessions, and never writes to them.
A model is optional. If you set one up, it gets your sentence, your app names and, when local search can't decide, each candidate's type, title and a few keywords. Never full links, file paths or your clipboard.
In Claude Code, the matches you ask about (title, type, link, time) go to the model of that conversation, the same one you are already talking to. Nothing goes anywhere else.

System actions (disk space, moving files to the Trash), custom commands, skills and model setup: docs/advanced.md.

If Sesame saved you one search through old chats, a star helps other people find it.