We need an open protocol for sharing conversation histories across chat providers

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/26/2026

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Key Points

  • The article argues that major chat providers (e.g., OpenAI, Anthropic) currently prevent users from syncing conversation histories across platforms, causing “provider fragmentation.”
  • It also highlights “client fragmentation,” where chat history created in one environment (e.g., ChatGPT) can’t be referenced from another tool (e.g., Codex) like a terminal-based workflow.
  • The author describes building “OpenChat” as an initial step toward an open protocol spec for sharing conversation histories.
  • For now, OpenChat is a browser extension that intercepts chats from ChatGPT and Claude and stores them locally, then uses an MCP server to expose them as referenceable resources in tools like Claude Code or Codex.
  • The post invites contributions and feedback via a GitHub repository to move from prototype toward a protocol approach.

Currently, big providers like OpenAI and Anthropic don't provide a way to sync conversations across different platforms. Your chat histories are fragmented in two ways:

Provider fragmentation

You can't start a chat in ChatGPT and continue it in Claude.

Client fragmentation

You can't create a chat in ChatGPT and then reference it in Codex.

Specially the second one, referencing a chat from a web UI inside of the terminal is something I would also love. So I started to build OpenChat. My idea is to build towards a protocol spec. But for now, it's a browser extension that can intercept chats from ChatGPT and Claude and store them locally in your browser automatically. Then using an MCP server, it exposes the chats as resources you can reference directly in Claude Code or Codex. I think that's pretty powerful.

Here's the link if anyone's interested. Contributions and feedback are very welcome.

https://github.com/p0u4a/openchat

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