Carrying Context Between AI Tools Without Losing the Thread

Here's a workflow most people who code with AI will recognize. You're deep in a session with Cursor, you hit a usage limit, and you switch to Claude on the web to keep going. Except now you're pasting in files, re-describing what you changed, and reminding it what you were even trying to do. The work didn't move — your context just fell on the floor.

OmniContext is the small tool I built so that stops happening. It runs locally, watches your project's Git state and active tasks, and packages that into something the next tool can pick up instantly.

Two ways to hand off

There are really two kinds of AI tools, and they need different bridges.

For web assistants — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity — you can't plug into them, so the bridge is a document. OmniContext's dashboard generates a tightly compressed Markdown "handoff prompt": the current branch, the uncommitted diff, the task you're on, trimmed to fit inside a normal context window. You paste one block and the model is caught up.

For IDEs that speak the Model Context Protocol — Cursor, Claude Code — the bridge is live. OmniContext exposes a native MCP server, so the assistant can read a context://current resource on its own and manage tasks without you copy-pasting anything.

# global CLI — no project install, just point it at a repo
npx omni-context watch

Why compression was the whole game

The temptation is to dump everything: full file contents, complete history, every open file. That blows the context budget immediately and buries the signal. The work was deciding what actually carries the thread — the diff and the current intent — and ruthlessly cutting the rest. A handoff that doesn't fit in the window isn't a handoff.

The bet underneath it

I built this because I don't think any one AI tool wins, and I don't want my context locked inside whichever one I happened to start in. MCP is quietly becoming the standard that makes that portability real — so OmniContext leans on it where it can, and falls back to plain Markdown everywhere else. Your context should belong to you, not to a vendor's session.