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Conversation Archive Importer

Imports ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity chat exports into a searchable brain archive and answers questions about past conversations

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Repository
garrytan/gbrain
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31,447
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

Once installed, the agent can take your exported AI chat history (from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) or local agent session logs and turn each conversation into a dated page in your personal knowledge store called a brain. It checks that pages parse correctly, pulls out facts, and looks for gaps so nothing is missed. Afterwards you can ask questions like when you first discussed a topic or how an idea changed across old chats, and the agent searches that archive before answering.

Great for

  • People with years of ChatGPT or Claude history who want it searchable
  • Developers who run GBrain and want coding-agent session logs archived
  • Researchers tracing how their thinking on a topic evolved

Skip it if

  • Users who want to share or publish chats: the imported pages contain full conversation text, and broad personal-information detection (names, phone numbers, addresses) is left to the user's own review, so sensitive chats need manual scrubbing first
  • Anyone without the GBrain tool installed: the skill depends on its commands and conventions and will not work on its own

Try asking

  • “Import my ChatGPT export from ~/Downloads/conversations.json into the brain”
  • “When did I first discuss vector databases across my past conversations?”
  • “Backfill any missing Claude conversations and tell me what gaps you found”
  • “Trace how my view on remote work changed across my archived chats”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Conversation Archive ImporterInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    conversation-archive.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip conversation-archive.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip conversation-archive.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Run gbrain transcripts ingest with --dry-run on a small sample first, and test 3-5 conversations before bulk importing everything
  • Manually review imported pages for personal information such as names, phone numbers and addresses, since automatic redaction covers only secret keys and tokens
  • If a secret reaches a page, rotate it first, then delete the page with gbrain delete <slug> --purge and check git history, which may still contain it

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from garrytan/gbrain under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-10-29. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.