♠ Previously.
Problem statement: does AgentsView replace fast-resume, or do they solve different problems?
I installed both and compared their current releases:
% agentsview --version
agentsview v0.41.1 (commit a902515a, built 2026-08-18T13:34:56Z)
% fr --version
fr 2.11.2
fr
has one job: search local agent sessions and resume one in its native
agent. Search is typo-tolerant. Enter
replaces fr
with the original agent process and restores its working directory:
Agent stores ──► adapters ──► normalized sessions ──► Tantivy index
│
Terminal ◄──── resume handoff ◄──── TUI/search ◄────────┘
AgentsView is a persistent SQLite archive with a desktop app, local web UI, CLI, REST API, MCP server, cost reports, and session health signals. Its search surface is correspondingly larger:
% agentsview session search --help | grep -E -- '--(fts|hybrid|regex|semantic|in )'
--fts Fast tokenized FTS over messages only
--hybrid Hybrid semantic + full-text search (reciprocal rank fusion)
--in string Comma-separated sources: messages,tool_input,tool_result (default all)
--regex Treat pattern as an RE2 regex
--semantic Semantic (vector) search over user/assistant messages
AgentsView documents 59 session sources against fr
’s 12. Resume support is
the opposite: AgentsView maps nine agent types, while fr
has handoff commands for all twelve, including Pi:
Pi → pi --session <id>
claude, codex, traex, copilot, cursor, gemini, opencode, amp, kiro
The local footprint shows the difference in scope:
% du -sh /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2 \
/Applications/AgentsView.app ~/.cache/fast-resume ~/.agentsview
14M /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2
116M /Applications/AgentsView.app
772K /Users/tperrotta/.cache/fast-resume
28M /Users/tperrotta/.agentsview
fr
treats its index as a disposable cache. AgentsView keeps sessions until
agentsview prune
removes them. It also sends an anonymous daily liveness
ping and checks
for updates; fr
2.11.2 has neither mechanism.
Given the aforementioned trade-offs: I am happier with fr
. KISS.
🤖 *Drafted with * ∎
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