{"slug": "agentsview-vs-fast-resume", "title": "AgentsView vs fast-resume", "summary": "A developer's comparison of AgentsView v0.41.1 and fast-resume 2.11.2 concludes that fast-resume is preferable due to its simplicity, despite AgentsView offering broader session source support and advanced search features. AgentsView supports 59 session sources and nine agent types, while fast-resume supports 12 sources and 12 agents, with fast-resume's footprint being 14MB versus AgentsView's 116MB app and 28MB data directory.", "body_md": "♠ [Previously](https://perrotta.dev/2026/05/fast-resume-search-coding-agent-sessions/).\n\n**Problem statement**: does [AgentsView](https://www.agentsview.io/) replace\n[ fast-resume](https://github.com/angristan/fast-resume), or do they solve\ndifferent problems?\n\nI installed both and compared their current releases:\n\n```\n% agentsview --version\nagentsview v0.41.1 (commit a902515a, built 2026-08-18T13:34:56Z)\n% fr --version\nfr 2.11.2\n```\n\n`fr`\n\nhas one job: search local agent sessions and resume one in its native\nagent. Search is typo-tolerant. `Enter`\n\nreplaces `fr`\n\nwith the original agent\nprocess and restores its working directory:\n\n```\nAgent stores ──► adapters ──► normalized sessions ──► Tantivy index\n                                                        │\nTerminal ◄──── resume handoff ◄──── TUI/search ◄────────┘\n```\n\nAgentsView 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:\n\n```\n% agentsview session search --help | grep -E -- '--(fts|hybrid|regex|semantic|in )'\n      --fts                      Fast tokenized FTS over messages only\n      --hybrid                   Hybrid semantic + full-text search (reciprocal rank fusion)\n      --in string                Comma-separated sources: messages,tool_input,tool_result (default all)\n      --regex                    Treat pattern as an RE2 regex\n      --semantic                 Semantic (vector) search over user/assistant messages\n```\n\nAgentsView documents 59 session sources against `fr`\n\n’s 12. Resume support is\nthe opposite: AgentsView maps nine agent types, while `fr`\n\nhas handoff commands\nfor all twelve, including Pi:\n\n```\n# fast-resume\nPi → pi --session <id>\n\n# AgentsView resume map\nclaude, codex, traex, copilot, cursor, gemini, opencode, amp, kiro\n```\n\nThe local footprint shows the difference in scope:\n\n```\n% du -sh /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2 \\\n    /Applications/AgentsView.app ~/.cache/fast-resume ~/.agentsview\n14M     /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2\n116M    /Applications/AgentsView.app\n772K    /Users/tperrotta/.cache/fast-resume\n28M     /Users/tperrotta/.agentsview\n```\n\n`fr`\n\ntreats its index as a disposable cache. AgentsView keeps sessions until\n`agentsview prune`\n\nremoves them. It also sends an [anonymous daily liveness\nping](https://www.agentsview.io/configuration/#privacy-and-telemetry) and checks\nfor updates; `fr`\n\n2.11.2 has neither mechanism.\n\nGiven the aforementioned trade-offs: I am happier with `fr`\n\n. KISS.\n\n🤖 *Drafted with * ∎\n\n`/bloggify`\n\n.— § —\n\nReply via [email](mailto:serendipity@perrotta.dev?subject=Reply to: AgentsView vs fast-resume)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentsview-vs-fast-resume", "canonical_source": "https://perrotta.dev/2026/09/agentsview-vs-fast-resume/", "published_at": "2026-09-01 18:55:14+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-03 00:23:15.500547+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["AgentsView", "fast-resume", "Tantivy", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentsview-vs-fast-resume", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentsview-vs-fast-resume.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentsview-vs-fast-resume.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agentsview-vs-fast-resume.jsonld"}}