Posit Assistant

Hansard reads Posit Assistant version 3 conversation stores under ~/.posit/assistant/workspaces. The native terminal client uses this store. Other hosts require a compatible local store; their interface cannot be inferred from these records.

Source IDs

Source	Use it for
posit-assistant	Local version 3 workspace conversation trees and their LM/UI sidecars.

How the import works

Each conversation has a tree of message nodes, model messages, and a separate record of the rendered conversation. Hansard follows the selected child at each branch from the root, so abandoned branches do not appear interleaved with the conversation. All retained branches remain in the raw source copy. The workspace record provides the working folder; a local checkout can establish its repository. The source does not record a Git remote or distinguish terminal, IDE, and desktop execution reliably.

The recorded model and token counters attach to the reply that produced them. The conversation’s current model and thinking-effort settings remain separate; they cannot establish historical settings for replies with missing metadata. Tool calls retain their arguments, and tool results retain their output and call identifiers. Before replacing an archive, Hansard checks that the source has not lost previously retained tree nodes or model records, and that its activity revision has not moved backward. A shorter selected branch is allowed when the full retained tree remains intact.

Import and keep current

Import now

hansard import --source posit-assistant --since all
hansard index rebuild

Keep current

Automatic source selection includes posit-assistant. For a custom list:

hansard config sources enable posit-assistant
hansard watcher restart

Review the import in the app

1. When the import finishes, open Conversations and selectFilter & sort.
2. Set Source to Posit Assistant and setTime to the window you imported. UseFolder to narrow the list when you use this harness in several projects.
3. Select a conversation to check its messages, tool calls, files, commits, model, and token usage.

To keep archiving new sessions from a local harness, openSettings → Imports. Automaticfollows every supported harness installed on this computer.Custom lets you turn individual harnesses on or off. Cloud sources and account exports never run from here; each needs its own import command. If a conversation you expect is missing after you reset the filters, run the import command on this page again with --explain-skips where the source supports it.

Compare the selected branch and its tools with the original conversation. Check reported coverage before interpreting token counters as billed usage.

What Hansard preserves

• Prompts, replies, recorded reasoning, tool calls, and text or JSON tool output.
• Recorded reply model IDs, provider metadata, and token counters, including zero.
• Conversation title, timestamps, working folder, revision, and terminal outcome.
• Exact bytes of the conversation tree, LM/UI sidecars, and workspace record.
• Alternate branch membership and current settings in archive metadata.

Known limitations

• Only version 3 local stores are supported. JSON/HTML exports and historical Positron Assistant or Databot stores require separate importers.
• Alternate branches, UI-only events, unknown content blocks, and attachment references remain raw-only. Referenced attachment files are not collected.
• Account, organization, harness version, originating interface, historical effort, and billing are unavailable unless future source records establish them.
• A message without its own LM timestamp uses tree order. That fallback is marked so the viewer does not present it as an exact message time.
• Compaction links remain preserved; native compaction and child-session trials are pending. Uninspected child-session kinds are rejected.
• Files larger than 128 MiB, bundles larger than 256 MiB, and sidecars or trees with more than 200,000 records are rejected. Unstable or incomplete saves are retried on the next import.
• HANSARD_POSIT_ASSISTANT_DIR selects a workspace-store root. Posit’s storage.path setting did not relocate TUI history in the native trial.
• Native terminal-format validation used a local synthetic model endpoint. Hosted model billing and other hosts have not passed native acceptance.

Refresh an existing archive

hansard import --source posit-assistant --since all
hansard index rebuild

If a source regression is reported, restore the complete provider history before retrying. A reimport does not reconstruct records missing from the source.