One prompt: paste this into Codex CLI and your sessions auto-archive to Fresh Jots

I want you to set up Fresh Jots auto-archiving for my OpenAI Codex CLI sessions, end to end. Walk me through it conversationally; ask me only what you genuinely can't figure out yourself. Be safe: show diffs before writing any file in my home directory, and never write my API token to any file in the current project or echo it back to me after I paste it.

You are Codex CLI, so you can inspect your own configuration and session files directly — use that. Two things in this prompt depend on your exact version and I've marked them "VERIFY": your hooks config schema and your transcript file format. Confirm both against your real ~/.codex before you finalise, and adjust the script if they differ. Everything else (the Fresh Jots API calls) is fixed and correct as written.

End state we're aiming for:
- One hook (SessionEnd) wired in ~/.codex/hooks.json, invoking ~/.codex/hooks/freshjots-codex-sessions.sh.
- That script (full content in step 3 below) reads each session's transcript (Codex hands the hook a `transcript_path` on stdin), stashes it locally at ~/.codex/freshjots-stash/codex-cli-YYYY-MM-DD-session-HH-MM-SS.txt, trusted-timestamps the exact bytes with an RFC 3161 authority (best-effort, via openssl), then POSTs it to Fresh Jots as a new note inside an "ai_sessions" folder (a transcript over ~2.8 MB is split into ordered "part i of n" notes so it always posts in full, never dropped on a size limit). Each note starts with a two-line header (`Codex CLI session: <id>` + `Date:`) so it self-identifies which session it was. It rotates the stash to the 50 most-recent files.
- My shell profile (~/.zshrc if my $SHELL ends in zsh, otherwise ~/.bashrc) exports FRESHJOTS_TOKEN.

Idempotent by design: if I re-run this prompt later, every step should detect existing state (env var set, script unchanged, hook entry already present, folder already created) and no-op. Tell me which steps you skipped and why.

Step 1 — Confirm intent. Tell me in one sentence what you're about to do. Ask me to type "yes" before you touch any file. After I've confirmed once, you can proceed through the remaining steps without asking again unless you hit a destructive edit you can't reverse.

Step 2 — Token bootstrap.
- Check presence without printing the value: `[ -n "${FRESHJOTS_TOKEN:-}" ] && echo set || echo unset`. Use that output, never `printenv FRESHJOTS_TOKEN` or `echo $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN` (those would dump the value into the transcript).
- **If "set"** (the token was already exported when Codex launched): verify with `curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 15 -H "Authorization: Bearer $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN" https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders`. The literal `$FRESHJOTS_TOKEN` stays in the command as written; the shell expands it at runtime, so the actual value never appears in stdout, stderr, or the transcript. Expect 200. On 401, tell me my token is set but rejected, and ask me to generate a fresh one. On success, jump to step 3 — do NOT touch my shell profile, the token is already wired in.
- **If "unset"**, tell me: "Go to https://freshjots.com, sign up (free, no card). At onboarding, pick the 'Plain notes' mode (its card mentions a 14-day free API trial) — that gets you a 14-day Dev trial token automatically. If you already have a Dev account, Settings → API tokens → Create token. Either way, you'll end up with an `mn_...` string. Paste it here when you have it."
- Once I paste a token, verify it with one curl call, substituting the literal `mn_...` value into the Authorization header (this single command is the only place the value appears outside my shell profile — unavoidable for the paste-in-chat flow): `curl -sS -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 15 -H "Authorization: Bearer mn_THE_VALUE_I_PASTED" https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders`. Expect 200. On 401, tell me politely "that token didn't work — paste another?" and retry up to 3 times.
- After verification, append `export FRESHJOTS_TOKEN="mn_..."` to my shell profile (~/.zshrc if my $SHELL ends in zsh, otherwise ~/.bashrc). Show me the diff before writing. If `grep -l FRESHJOTS_TOKEN ~/.bashrc ~/.zshrc ~/.profile 2>/dev/null` finds it elsewhere already, skip this step and tell me where it lives.
- Never write the raw token to any file in the current repo, and never echo it back into the chat after that one verify call. From this step on, refer to it only as `$FRESHJOTS_TOKEN` in any bash command — let the shell expand it.

Step 3 — Hook script. Write the script below to ~/.codex/hooks/freshjots-codex-sessions.sh (create the directory if missing), then `chmod +x` it. If the file already exists with identical content, skip. If it exists with different content, show me the diff and ask before overwriting.

VERIFY (transcript format) before you finalise this script: the flatten below is written for Codex's current rollout format — one JSON object per line at $CODEX_HOME/sessions/YYYY/MM/DD/rollout-*.jsonl, shaped {timestamp, type, payload}, where the conversation lives in type=="response_item" records (payload.type of "message" / "function_call" / "function_call_output"). This format drifts between Codex releases, so `cat` the newest rollout file and confirm the render reads well; if the field names or record types differ in your version, remap them — keeping the philosophy: render user/assistant prose in full, summarise tool calls, drop base64/images, and strip any re-injected instruction blocks. The Fresh Jots push half below is correct as-is and must not change. If the structured render errors or comes out empty, the script already falls back to copying the raw transcript, so the archive still posts either way.

Script content:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Auto-archive each Codex CLI session as a new Fresh Jots note inside
# the ai_sessions folder, with a rolling 50-file local stash as a
# fallback for offline / API-down moments.
# Wired in ~/.codex/hooks.json for the SessionEnd event.
# Always exits 0 — failures log, never block the user.

set -uo pipefail

STASH_DIR="$HOME/.codex/freshjots-stash"
LOG_FILE="$STASH_DIR/.log"
FOLDER_ID_FILE="$STASH_DIR/.folder-id"
FOLDER_NAME="ai_sessions"
KEEP=50
# RFC 3161 trusted-timestamp authority. The hook stamps each note's exact bytes
# here client-side (the TSA sees only a SHA-256, never the content) so the note
# carries an immediate, independent "existed as-is at time T" proof beside the
# server's daily Bitcoin anchor. Overridable; DigiCert's public TSA needs no
# signup and chains to a widely-trusted CA.
TSA_URL="${FRESHJOTS_TSA_URL:-http://timestamp.digicert.com}"

mkdir -p "$STASH_DIR"
log() { printf '[%s] %s\n' "$(date -Iseconds)" "$*" >> "$LOG_FILE"; }

# Codex pipes one JSON object to the hook on stdin. For SessionEnd it carries
# at least session_id, transcript_path, cwd, hook_event_name and model.
INPUT=$(cat)
SESSION_ID=$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.session_id // empty')
EVENT=$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.hook_event_name // empty')
TRANSCRIPT=$(printf '%s' "$INPUT" | jq -r '.transcript_path // empty')
log "FIRED event='$EVENT' session='$SESSION_ID'"

[ -z "$SESSION_ID" ] && { log "ABORT: no session_id"; exit 0; }
[ -z "${FRESHJOTS_TOKEN:-}" ] && { log "ABORT: FRESHJOTS_TOKEN not set"; exit 0; }

# Fall back to locating the newest rollout file under ~/.codex if the payload
# didn't carry a usable transcript_path (older builds, or a moved file).
if [ -z "$TRANSCRIPT" ] || [ ! -s "$TRANSCRIPT" ]; then
    TRANSCRIPT=$(find "$HOME/.codex" -maxdepth 4 -type f \
        \( -name "*${SESSION_ID}*" -o -name "*.jsonl" \) 2>/dev/null \
        | xargs -r ls -1t 2>/dev/null | head -1)
fi
if [ -z "$TRANSCRIPT" ] || [ ! -s "$TRANSCRIPT" ]; then
    log "ABORT: could not locate transcript for session_id=$SESSION_ID"
    exit 0
fi

# Title: date + HH-MM-SS — sortable per day and collision-free. (A per-day
# count would stick once the 50-file rotation caps the file count, so
# every later session that day would reuse the same number and overwrite;
# a wall-clock timestamp avoids that failure mode.)
TITLE="codex-cli-$(date +%Y-%m-%d)-session-$(date +%H-%M-%S)"
STASH_PATH="$STASH_DIR/${TITLE}.txt"

# Flatten the rollout JSONL -> role-prefixed plain text. Codex writes one JSON
# object per line as {timestamp, type, payload}; the conversation lives in
# type=="response_item" records whose payload is a "message" (role + content[]),
# a "function_call" (tool name + arguments), or a "function_call_output"
# (tool result). Other record types (session_meta, event_msg, turn_context,
# compacted) are skipped. clean() strips re-injected instruction/system blocks;
# cap() bounds tool output; message prose is never truncated. The rollout schema
# drifts between Codex releases (see the VERIFY note in step 3): on any jq error
# or empty output the raw-transcript fallback below archives the file as-is, so
# nothing is ever lost.
jq -r '
def clean: gsub("<system-reminder>[\\s\\S]*?</system-reminder>"; "");
def cap($n): if (.|length) > $n then (.[0:$n]) + "\n…[truncated " + (((.|length) - $n)|tostring) + " chars]" else . end;
def content_text:
  if type == "array" then
    ([.[] | if   type == "string" then .
            elif (type == "object" and (.type // "" | test("text"))) then (.text // "")
            elif (type == "object" and (.type // "") == "image")     then "[image omitted]"
            elif  type == "object"                                   then (.text // "")
            else "" end]
     | map(select(. != null and . != "")) | join("\n"))
  elif type == "string" then .
  else "" end;
( if (.type // "") != "response_item" then empty
  else
    ((.timestamp // "") | tostring) as $ts
    | (.payload // {}) as $p
    | ( if ($p.type // "") == "message" then
          ($p.content | content_text) as $ct
          | (if ($ct | length) == 0 then "" else (($p.role // "?") | ascii_upcase) + ":\n" + $ct end)
        elif ($p.type // "") == "function_call" then
          "[Tool: " + ($p.name // "?") + "] " + (($p.arguments // "") | tostring | cap(1500))
        elif ($p.type // "") == "function_call_output" then
          "TOOL RESULT:\n" + (($p.output // $p.content // "") | tostring | cap(4000))
        else "" end ) as $body
    | if ($body | length) == 0 then empty
      else (if $ts == "" then "" else "[" + $ts + "] " end) + $body + "\n"
      end
  end
) | clean
' "$TRANSCRIPT" > "$STASH_PATH" 2>>"$LOG_FILE"
render_status=$?

# Fall back to the raw transcript only if the structured render actually failed
# (jq parse/runtime error) or produced an empty file — not on a byte count. A
# short but valid session renders to very few bytes and is still correct; a
# size threshold here would wrongly discard it and dump raw JSONL in its place.
if [ "$render_status" -ne 0 ] || [ ! -s "$STASH_PATH" ]; then
    cp "$TRANSCRIPT" "$STASH_PATH"
fi
printf '\n==================== TRANSCRIPT END · %s ====================\n' \
    "$(date -Iseconds)" >> "$STASH_PATH"

# Prepend a session header so the archived note self-identifies which Codex
# session it is — the id traces back to the source rollout under ~/.codex.
# Done after the footer so it survives both the structured render and the
# raw fallback path.
{ printf 'Codex CLI session: %s\nDate: %s\n\n' \
    "$SESSION_ID" "$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')"; cat "$STASH_PATH"; } \
    > "${STASH_PATH}.tmp" && mv "${STASH_PATH}.tmp" "$STASH_PATH"
log "STASHED $STASH_PATH ($(wc -c < "$STASH_PATH" | tr -d ' ') bytes)"

# Find-or-create the ai_sessions folder. Cache the id so we don't round-trip
# the lookup on every session. The name match is case-insensitive to mirror
# the server's LOWER(name) uniqueness rule.
folder_id=""

if [ -s "$FOLDER_ID_FILE" ]; then
    cached=$(cat "$FOLDER_ID_FILE")
    status=$(curl -sS --max-time 15 -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN" \
        "https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders/$cached")
    [ "$status" = "200" ] && folder_id=$cached
fi

if [ -z "$folder_id" ]; then
    folder_id=$(curl -sS --max-time 15 \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN" \
        "https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders" \
      | jq -r --arg n "$FOLDER_NAME" \
            '.folders[]? | select((.name // "" | ascii_downcase) == ($n | ascii_downcase)) | .id' | head -1)
fi

if [ -z "$folder_id" ]; then
    folder_id=$(curl -sS --max-time 15 \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        -X POST -d "{\"folder\":{\"name\":\"$FOLDER_NAME\"}}" \
        "https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders" \
      | jq -r '.id // empty')
fi

if [ -n "$folder_id" ]; then
    echo "$folder_id" > "$FOLDER_ID_FILE"
else
    log "WARN: could not resolve/create folder '$FOLDER_NAME'; posting at root"
fi

# Compute an RFC 3161 trusted-timestamp token (base64, single line) over $1's
# EXACT bytes via openssl + the configured TSA. Best-effort: echoes the token on
# success and nothing on any failure (openssl absent, TSA down, timeout), so the
# archive still posts untokenized. The digest is SHA-256(file) — identical to
# the note's server-side create-leaf content_hash — and the TSA sees only that
# hash, never the transcript.
tsa_token_for() {
    local file="$1" dir tsq tsr
    command -v openssl >/dev/null 2>&1 || { log "TSA: openssl not found; posting without token"; return 0; }
    dir=$(mktemp -d) || return 0
    tsq="$dir/req.tsq"; tsr="$dir/resp.tsr"
    if ! openssl ts -query -data "$file" -sha256 -cert -out "$tsq" 2>>"$LOG_FILE"; then
        log "TSA: ts -query failed for $(basename "$file"); posting without token"; rm -rf "$dir"; return 0
    fi
    if ! curl -sS --max-time 20 -H 'Content-Type: application/timestamp-query' \
            --data-binary "@$tsq" "$TSA_URL" -o "$tsr" 2>>"$LOG_FILE" || [ ! -s "$tsr" ]; then
        log "TSA: query to $TSA_URL failed; posting without token"; rm -rf "$dir"; return 0
    fi
    base64 < "$tsr" | tr -d '\n'
    rm -rf "$dir"
}

# Post one body file as a single Fresh Jots note. Best-effort: logs the
# outcome, cleans its own temps, never aborts the hook. The local stash
# at $STASH_PATH survives regardless (rotation keeps the last 50) so a
# failed POST is recoverable.
post_note() {
    local title="$1" body_file="$2"
    local payload response status tsa_token
    payload=$(mktemp); response=$(mktemp)
    tsa_token=$(tsa_token_for "$body_file")
    # Single jq build: folder_id and the TSA token are each included only when
    # present, so an offline TSA (empty token) posts exactly as before.
    jq -Rs --arg title "$title" --arg fid "$folder_id" --arg tok "$tsa_token" --arg tsaurl "$TSA_URL" '
        {note: (
            {title: $title, plain_body: ., format: "plain"}
            + (if $fid != "" then {folder_id: ($fid | tonumber)} else {} end)
            + (if $tok != "" then {tsa_token: $tok, tsa_url: $tsaurl} else {} end)
        )}' < "$body_file" > "$payload"
    status=$(curl -sS -o "$response" -w '%{http_code}' --max-time 30 \
        -X POST https://freshjots.com/api/v1/notes \
        -H "Authorization: Bearer $FRESHJOTS_TOKEN" \
        -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        --data-binary "@$payload" 2>>"$LOG_FILE")
    case "$status" in
        201) log "SUCCESS: created note #$(jq -r '.id // "?"' < "$response") '$title' folder_id=$folder_id" ;;
        *)   log "FAILURE: status=$status title='$title' body=$(head -c 256 "$response" 2>/dev/null); LOCAL STASH at $STASH_PATH" ;;
    esac
    rm -f "$payload" "$response"
}

# Per-chunk byte ceiling. split -C chunks the raw transcript by bytes, so
# a chunk's size IS the decoded plain_body the API checks. Two ceilings
# bound it: (1) the per-note cap on the decoded body — 3 MB / 3,145,728
# for Dev & Team; and (2) the rack_attack pre-parse blocklist on the raw
# *request* Content-Length — 4 MB / 4,194,304 — which sees the JSON-escaped
# body (\n, \", \\, \uXXXX all inflate it) plus the envelope. 2.8 MB sits
# ~345 KB under (1) and, even at a pessimistic ~45% escaping inflation,
# stays under (2). When the trimmed transcript exceeds this, split -C
# divides it at line boundaries into ordered parts (aa, ab, ... -> sorted
# glob = correct order) and every part is posted as "<title> (part i of n)".
# The full transcript is always written across 1..n notes, never dropped.
MAX_BYTES=2800000
TOTAL_BYTES=$(wc -c < "$STASH_PATH" | tr -d ' ')

if [ "$TOTAL_BYTES" -le "$MAX_BYTES" ]; then
    post_note "$TITLE" "$STASH_PATH"
else
    SPLIT_PREFIX="$STASH_DIR/.split-${SESSION_ID}."
    rm -f "${SPLIT_PREFIX}"* 2>/dev/null
    trap 'rm -f "${SPLIT_PREFIX}"*' EXIT
    split -C "$MAX_BYTES" -- "$STASH_PATH" "$SPLIT_PREFIX"
    parts=( "${SPLIT_PREFIX}"* )
    n=${#parts[@]}
    log "SPLIT: $TOTAL_BYTES bytes > $MAX_BYTES -> $n part(s)"
    i=1
    for part in "${parts[@]}"; do
        hdr=$(mktemp)
        { printf '%s — part %d of %d\n\n' "$TITLE" "$i" "$n"; cat "$part"; } > "$hdr"
        post_note "$TITLE (part $i of $n)" "$hdr"
        rm -f "$hdr"
        i=$((i + 1))
    done
    rm -f "${SPLIT_PREFIX}"*
fi

# Rotate the stash: keep the 50 most-recently-modified .txt files.
( cd "$STASH_DIR" && ls -1t *.txt 2>/dev/null | tail -n +$((KEEP + 1)) | while IFS= read -r f; do rm -f -- "$f"; done )

exit 0

Step 4 — hooks.json. Register the SessionEnd hook in ~/.codex/hooks.json. If the file doesn't exist, create it with just this hook (substitute my actual $HOME — JSON doesn't expand ~):

{
  "hooks": {
    "SessionEnd": [
      {
        "hooks": [
          { "type": "command", "command": "bash <HOME>/.codex/hooks/freshjots-codex-sessions.sh", "timeout": 120 }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

VERIFY (hooks schema): the shape above — SessionEnd → a matcher-group whose nested "hooks" array holds { "type": "command", "command", "timeout" } — matches current Codex (it mirrors the documented SessionStart example). "timeout" is in seconds (default 600); 120 comfortably covers this script's network calls. SessionEnd runs synchronously — Codex ignores an "async" flag here — so the hook briefly holds the prompt while the note posts (usually a second or two; longer only on a slow network or if the timestamp authority is down). Codex's hooks are still evolving, so confirm against your build (`codex --help`, your config docs, or an existing ~/.codex/hooks.json). If your build reads hooks from `[hooks]` in ~/.codex/config.toml instead, use that form. If it has no SessionEnd event at all (very old builds only had "Stop", which fires after every turn, not once per session), upgrade Codex — Stop would archive a partial transcript on each turn. Whichever file, the goal is identical: run the script once when a session ends.

If the file already exists, read it with jq, append our entry to .hooks.SessionEnd[] (creating the array if absent). Do NOT duplicate: if an entry whose command already matches `bash <HOME>/.codex/hooks/freshjots-codex-sessions.sh` is already there, leave it alone. Show me the diff before writing. Validate the result with `jq . ~/.codex/hooks.json > /dev/null`.

Step 5 — Folder bootstrap. Eagerly create the ai_sessions folder so I get a visible confirmation it worked before the first session ends:
- `GET https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders` with the bearer token; look for a folder named "ai_sessions".
- If absent: `POST https://freshjots.com/api/v1/folders` with body `{"folder":{"name":"ai_sessions"}}`.
- Persist the returned id (or the existing one) to ~/.codex/freshjots-stash/.folder-id. `mkdir -p ~/.codex/freshjots-stash` first.

Step 6 — Tell me what to do next. Print a single clear three-line block:
  1. Quit Codex completely (end every running session).
  2. Reload your shell (`source ~/.zshrc` or `source ~/.bashrc`, depending on which I just edited). Skip if FRESHJOTS_TOKEN was already exported before this run.
  3. Relaunch Codex, ask anything trivial, then end the session. Your first auto-archived note will appear at freshjots.com in the ai_sessions folder.

Step 7 — Verification helpers. Tell me I can:
  - `tail -f ~/.codex/freshjots-stash/.log` in another terminal to watch the hook fire in real time.
  - `ls -1t ~/.codex/freshjots-stash/` to see the rotating local stash.
  - `grep -lr "some-keyword" ~/.codex/freshjots-stash/` to search recent sessions even when offline.

Constraints:
- Use absolute paths everywhere ($HOME expands; ~ inside JSON does not).
- Prefer jq over hand-rolled JSON manipulation.
- Treat every file edit as needing diff + my "yes" the first time, then proceed.
- If any API call returns non-200/201, stop and explain what happened — don't paper over it.
- If `jq` or `curl` is missing, tell me which package manager to use to install it (apt/dnf/brew/pacman based on what's on $PATH) and ask before installing.
- Honour the two VERIFY notes (hooks schema in step 4, transcript format in step 3) by checking your real ~/.codex before finalising — you can read your own config and session files, so use them rather than trusting my assumptions.

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