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Integrations

Showtail works with many AI coding tools. Tools with lifecycle hooks (Claude Code, Codex) capture your prompts and edits live as you work; hosted chat apps (ChatGPT, Gemini) are import-based — you bring a shared conversation into the trail after the fact. Whichever you use, every event joins one shared, cross-tool timeline.

Pick your tool below, or scan the capability matrix to see exactly what each integration can do today.

Integration capability matrix

Showtail works with many AI coding tools, and support depth varies by tool. This table shows what each integration can do today — every ✅ is backed by an end-to-end test, so it genuinely works against the real tool.

Capability Claude Code OpenAI Codex ChatGPT Copilot (VS Code) Copilot CLI Copilot Desktop Antigravity CLI Antigravity IDE Google Gemini Zed Notes
Live-capture hooks ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🚧 🚧 🗺️ ✅ 🚧 ⛔ ⛔ Live-certified for Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI. Copilot CLI fires no lifecycle hooks in headless -p mode, so it can’t be live-certified here; Copilot (VS Code) uses its extension; Zed has no hooks.
Auto prompt capture ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🚧 🚧 🗺️ 🚧 🚧 ⛔ ⛔ Live-certified for Claude Code + Codex; the CLI plugins are built but their live capture isn’t certified here. Copilot (VS Code) reads native chat prompts from the on-disk session JSON (contract-tested), not via hooks.
Auto file/edit capture ✅ 🚧 ⛔ 🚧 🚧 🗺️ ✅ 🚧 ⛔ ⛔ Live-certified for Claude Code + Antigravity CLI. Codex captures edits in real interactive sessions — the edited file is snapshotted and its AI diff (plus deletions) is reconciled from the session rollout at Stop (contract-tested) — but the headless harness can’t certify a live Codex edit. Copilot CLI fires no hooks in headless mode; Copilot (VS Code) snapshots on save with no AI diff.
Auto AI-reply capture ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🚧 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ ⛔ ⛔ Needs the tool’s stop-hook plus a readable transcript; planned wherever both exist.
Decision capture ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ ⛔ ⛔ Reconciled from the tool’s transcript on the Stop hook, so — like AI-reply capture — it is certified by its contract test, not the headless live run. Planned wherever a tool has hooks + a transcript but no ask-the-user construct yet.
Plan capture ✅ ✅ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ⛔ ✅ 🗺️ ⛔ ⛔ Full for Claude Code, Codex, and Antigravity CLI. Antigravity links its real plan.md; Claude Code and Codex materialize the transcript plan into a browsable, linkable file (Codex writes no native plan file). Antigravity IDE writes implementation_plan.md but has no plugin yet. Reconciled on the Stop hook — certified by its contract test, not the headless live run (print mode never raises Stop).
Session import / backfill ✅ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ Planned wherever the tool writes a readable transcript (Zed: only via manual Markdown export).
Managed instructions ✅ ✅ ⛔ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🗺️ Planned wherever the tool reads an instructions/rules file.
Instruction update detection ✅ ✅ ⛔ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🗺️ Detected via a managed-block fingerprint in each tool’s instructions/skill file.
User + project install ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🚧 ✅ 🗺️ ✅ 🚧 ⛔ 🗺️ Copilot (VS Code) is project-scoped only (.github/).
Host detection (setup) ✅ ✅ ⛔ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🗺️ Hosted web apps have nothing local to detect.
Connection status ✅ ✅ ⛔ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ⛔ 🗺️ Needs a local footprint to inspect; web apps have none.
Secret/PII redaction ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ Applies automatically once any capture or import path for the tool exists.
Cross-tool timeline ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ ✅ ✅ ✅ 🗺️ Any captured or imported event from the tool joins the shared timeline.
Marketplace/extension install ✅ 🗺️ ⛔ ✅ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ 🗺️ ⛔ 🗺️ Codex/Copilot CLI/Antigravity expose a marketplace; a Showtail installer just isn’t published there yet.

Key: ✅ Full · 🚧 Partial · 🗺️ Planned · ⛔ Unsupported

✅ works end-to-end (verified) · 🚧 implemented with a gap · 🗺️ the tool supports it, not built yet · ⛔ the tool exposes no surface for it.

Per-tool guides

  • Claude Code

    Skill + auto-capture hooks, plugin install, and session import/backfill.

    Set up Claude Code

  • OpenAI Codex

    AGENTS.md instructions + lifecycle hooks via config.toml.

    Set up Codex

  • GitHub Copilot

    VS Code extension: managed instructions, save-time edit snapshots, @showtail.

    Set up Copilot

  • ChatGPT

    Import selected conversations from a share link, clipboard, or file.

    Import from ChatGPT

  • Google Gemini

    Import conversations from a share link or a paste.

    Import from Gemini