A Claude skill that digs through your old Claude and ChatGPT chat history and saves forgotten to-dos, ideas, plans and drafts as local markdown notes organized by project. Runs locally, with no account needed.
Claude Code
$ npx -y skills add mihkarp/trash-panda --agent claude-code
Codex
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a codex
Cursor
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a cursor
Gemini CLI
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a gemini-cli
GitHub Copilot
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a github-copilot
OpenCode
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a opencode
Windsurf
$ npx skills add mihkarp/trash-panda -a windsurf
Your AI chats are full of buried treasure. Trash Panda digs it out.
A tiny Claude / ChatGPT skill that rescues forgotten to-dos, ideas, plans and drafts from old AI chats into a local markdown den/.
no SaaS · no account · plain markdown · source backlinks · Claude + ChatGPT exports
/plugin marketplace add mihkarp/trash-panda
/plugin install trash-panda
/dig
No SaaS. No account. No "memory layer." Just a raccoon and a folder.
You talk to Claude and ChatGPT all day.
You generate dozens of to-dos, half-formed ideas, plans, specs, prompts, drafts and follow-ups — and then they die in old chat tabs. You never go back. Next week you re-explain the same project to the AI from scratch.
Trash Panda lives in your agent. Every time you let him loose, he digs through your recent chat history, pulls out the stuff worth keeping, and drags it back to your den — a folder of plain markdown, organized by project, with a link back to the chat each thing came from.
Your chats are trash. Some of it is treasure. Let the raccoon dig.
🦝 Dug through 18 chats since last dig.
Found:
📝 5 To Do’s
💎 3 Shiny
🗺️ 1 Plan
📜 2 Loot
Saved to:
- den/projects/trash-panda.md
- den/projects/ai-product-club.md
- den/inbox.md
Last haul: 5 scraps · 3 shiny · 1 plan · 2 loot → den
See examples/sample-haul.md and examples/sample-den/ for a full mock den.
| Artifact | What it rescues | What it looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 📝 To Do’s | concrete things you said you’d do | torn checklist note |
| 💎 Shiny | ideas worth keeping — “ooh, don’t lose that” | gem fished out of the bin |
| 🗺️ The Plan | strategy, route, next steps | crumpled heist map |
| 📜 Loot | drafts, specs, prompts, notes | rescued scroll / haul |
Every item links back to the chat it came from. Your loot remembers which bin it crawled out of.
Use /dig inside Claude Code / Cowork. Trash Panda reads recent chats available to the agent and updates your den.
/dig
Export your conversations.json, drop it into den/imports/, then run:
/dig export den/imports/conversations.json
v0 is honest: ChatGPT uses export mode. Claude gets the sweeter live dig.
See docs/chatgpt-export.md for the export flow.
Two you'll actually use:
/dig — the panda rummages your chats since the last dig, pulls out To Do’s / Shiny / The Plan / Loot, and shows you the haul to approve before anything is written./den — show the den: your projects and what's still open. This is your “just let me glance at it.”The rest of the bench:
/sniff — dry run. Shows what he would find, writes nothing. Good first try./feed <chat> — point him at one specific chat: “dig through this one.”/wash — raccoons wash their food. Tidies the den, collapses duplicates./nap — pause auto-digs. He wakes on the next /dig.You can also just talk to him: “hey panda, go dig.”
your chats → /dig → haul you approve → den/projects/<project>.md → /den
den/inbox.md if it doesn't fit anywhere.den/index.md is rebuilt.The den is just markdown. Open it on GitHub, in VS Code, in Obsidian — wherever. It's yours, and he respects your hand edits.
See docs/den-format.md for the file structure.
Run a one-time dig and get your AI chat archetype.
Possible diagnoses:
Share your badge with #TrashPandaWrapped.
Trash Panda writes to your local den/ folder.
Your rescued items are just markdown files.
No SaaS. No account. No dashboard you'll abandon.
If you wire den/ to GitHub later, that's your choice. The raccoon does not require it.
Trash Panda runs inside your existing agent environment and writes to local markdown.
conversations.json.See docs/privacy.md.
conversations.json, get a haulGood first ways to help:
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
A raccoon roots through the trash and comes out holding a diamond.
That's the whole product.
Your chat history is the trash. The diamond is everything you said you'd do and then forgot.
Trash Panda does not judge. Trash Panda digs.
MIT — see LICENSE. Do whatever you want with him.
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@titanwingsA Claude skill that digs through your old Claude and ChatGPT chat history and saves forgotten to-dos, ideas, plans and drafts as local markdown notes organized by project. Runs locally, with no account needed. Install it with the command on its page. It includes trash-panda. Its skills do not fire on their own yet. Free and open source.
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