# ctx 13 Hacker News commenters recommended ctx and 5 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule. **Verdict:** People recommend ctx for searching and resuming coding agent history across Claude Code and Codex, and its token efficiency. The most common caveat is a paywall. ## Why people recommend it - Search over agent conversation history (4 comments): "Obviously, your tool does not provide this. But I think GP is undervaluing the UX advantages of having your conversation history." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851729)) "semantic search has been pretty good, it usually finds what it's looking for" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778099)) "I use https://usegitai.com/ and https://ctx.rs/ to preserve and search them." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922136)) - Token efficiency and accurate results (2 comments): "What really ended up being the big efficiency improvement is the token efficiency." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48776189)) "ctx results are more accurate, ergonomic, and token efficient" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48780210)) - Isolated VM and container runs (2 comments): "ctx can run work in VM/container-isolated environments with explicit network policy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47627137)) "we automatically manage a lot of the VM complexity including elastic memory" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628176)) - Local-first, well considered design (2 comments): "thanks for making it local-first!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47853626)) "it feels deeply considered" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47628065)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Conductor](https://hackerapproved.com/p/conductor.md): 58 recommend - [Superset](https://hackerapproved.com/p/superset.md): 33 recommend - [AX by Google](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ax.md): 15 recommend - [Zenflow](https://hackerapproved.com/p/zenflow.md): 13 recommend - [Vibe Kanban](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vibe-kanban.md): 11 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "ctx", https://hackerapproved.com/p/ctx/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).