🔗🧵 Amy Session Continuity — resume a Discord thread from the CLI
TL;DR 🚀 Every Amy Discord thread is an on-disk omp session. Grab the thread ID → point
ompat that thread’s--session-dir→ add-c. You’re back in the exact same conversation, now in your terminal. Daemon and CLI share one session file transparently.
⚡ Do it in one command
A Discord thread URL ends in the thread ID:
https://discord.com/channels/<guild>/<THREAD_ID>
└── this ──┘Resume that thread interactively in your terminal:
THREAD=1514275906170912769 # 👈 paste your thread ID
omp --allow-home --cwd /home/usr \
--session-dir ~/.omp/amy-sessions/$THREAD -cOne-shot / headless (exactly what the daemon does):
omp --allow-home --cwd /home/usr \
--session-dir ~/.omp/amy-sessions/$THREAD -c "your next prompt"-c▶️ continues the latest session in that dir.-r 019eb1f2🎯 resumes a specific session by ID prefix (when a dir holds more than one).- Omit
-c/-rto start a fresh session that still lives in that thread’s dir.
🧠 The #1 confusion: cwd ≠ session store
Two unrelated directories. Conflating them is the classic trip-up.
flowchart LR A["🖥️ omp run"] --> B["📂 cwd — where files get edited"] A --> C["💾 session store — where the transcript saves"] B --> B1["/home/usr · AMY_WORKDIR (default HOME)"] C --> C1["default: ~/.omp/agent/sessions/ + cwd-bucket"] C --> C2["Amy override: ~/.omp/amy-sessions/ + threadId"]
📂 cwd (--cwd) | 💾 session store (--session-dir) | |
|---|---|---|
| What | Where the agent reads/edits files | Where the transcript (*.jsonl) is saved |
| 🏠 Amy’s value | /home/usr (AMY_WORKDIR, default $HOME) | ~/.omp/amy-sessions/<threadId>/ |
| 🤖 Your normal CLI | wherever you launched | ~/.omp/agent/sessions/<cwd-bucket>/ (auto) |
💡 “I thought all sessions were in
/home/usr!” — Half-true./home/usris the cwd, and omp buckets the default store by cwd. Your home cwd shows up as the-bucket:~/.omp/agent/sessions/-/. So your interactive sessions are keyed by/home/usr, not stored loose in it.
🗺️ Where every session actually lives
| Who | Store path | Keyed by | Continue with |
|---|---|---|---|
🧑💻 You (plain omp from home) | ~/.omp/agent/sessions/-/ | cwd (/home/usr → -) | omp -c (same cwd) |
| 🧵 Amy thread | ~/.omp/amy-sessions/<threadId>/ | Discord thread ID | omp --session-dir … -c |
The daemon deliberately splits each Discord thread out of the cwd bucket via
--session-dir(amyd.mjs, or wrapperompcordd.mjs), so every thread is its own independently-resumable session — no collisions with your interactive work. Default remains~/.omp/amy-sessions;OMPCORD_SESSION_ROOT/existing~/.omp/ompcord-sessionsare supported without stranding legacy threads.
🛡️ Safety — never double-write a live session
CLI and daemon share one .jsonl. Both writing at once corrupts continuity.
pgrep -f 'node (amyd|ompcordd)\.mjs' # 🔍 is the daemon running?- ✅ Daemon idle → continue from CLI freely; it picks up your turns next time.
- ⛔ Daemon mid-turn in that thread → wait until its run finishes (the dir’s
.jsonlstops growing). Or/amy cancelin Discord first.
🔁 Direction matters
| Direction | Works? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Discord thread → CLI | ✅ | point --session-dir at ~/.omp/amy-sessions/<threadId> |
CLI (--session-dir …) → Discord | ✅ | daemon reads the same dir; its -c sees your turns |
| Plain CLI session → Discord | ❌ | it’s in the - cwd bucket, not a thread dir — Amy never looks there |
🧩 Why each flag
| Flag | Reason |
|---|---|
--session-dir ~/.omp/amy-sessions/<threadId> | 🎯 the thread’s transcript store — the whole point |
-c | ▶️ continue the latest session there |
--allow-home --cwd /home/usr | 🏠 replicate Amy’s env; without --allow-home, omp auto-relocates out of ~ |
--model <m> | 🧠 match AMY_MODEL if the daemon set one (else omit) |
The daemon also injects
--append-system-prompt ASK_PROTOCOLso its headless agent can ask via Discord components. From the interactive CLI you don’t need it — the nativeaskpicker works directly.
✅ Verify you grabbed the right session
THREAD=1514275906170912769
ls -t ~/.omp/amy-sessions/$THREAD/*.jsonl | head -1 # 👀 the file -c will reopenThe newest *.jsonl there is exactly what -c resumes — match it against the last messages in the Discord thread.
See also: Ompcord — Always-on Discord Bridge (the bridge) · Amy SSOT Embed Dashboard (
/amy statusshows the livecwd/session).