Sessions

Every conversation with Anton is a session. Sessions are stored in your workspace, so you can resume them later, inspect what happened, and even export one for a teammate to import.

Resuming a session

From inside chat — type /resume to see a picker of your recent sessions and continue one where it left off.

At launch — start Anton with the resume flag:

anton --resume    # or: anton -r

Listing sessions from the terminal

anton sessions

Prints a table of recent sessions with their ID, task, status, and a short summary preview. To see one session's full details and summary:

anton session <id>

Sharing sessions with /share

/share packages a session into a portable .anton file you can move between machines or hand to a teammate. The export includes the conversation history, a memory snapshot (lessons born in the session and project memories it used), the scratchpad code cells with their output, and an LLM-generated title and summary.

Command	What it does
/share export	Export the current session to .anton/output/ as a timestamped .anton file
/share export --summary	Lighter export: metadata and summary only, no full conversation history (recommended for long sessions)
/share import <file>	Import a .anton file: creates a new session with the conversation, memories, and scratchpad cells restored, then resumes it
/share status	Show whether the current session was imported, and from whom — plus which data sources it references and whether they're connected on this machine
/share history	List all exported and imported .anton files in this workspace

A typical handoff:

# On machine A
/share export
  → .anton/output/pipeline-latency-root-cause-analysis_20260610_142233.anton

# On machine B (after copying the file over)
/share import ~/Downloads/pipeline-latency-root-cause-analysis_20260610_142233.anton

After import, Anton prints a briefing — title, who exported it and when, summary, memory counts, and code cells — and you continue where the session left off. If the session used data sources you haven't connected yet, /share status flags them so you can run /connect first (see Data sources).

If you already have an active session, importing creates a new session; your current work is preserved in history.