AgentsView vs fast-resume

01 Sep, 2026 • 282 words • 2 min • updated 03 Sep, 2026

Problem statement: does AgentsView replace fast-resume, or do they solve different problems?

I installed both and compared their current releases:

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% agentsview --version
agentsview v0.41.1 (commit a902515a, built 2026-08-18T13:34:56Z)
% fr --version
fr 2.11.2

fr has one job: search local agent sessions and resume one in its native agent. Search is typo-tolerant. Enter replaces fr with the original agent process and restores its working directory:

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Agent stores ──► adapters ──► normalized sessions ──► Tantivy index
                                                        │
Terminal ◄──── resume handoff ◄──── TUI/search ◄────────┘

AgentsView is a persistent SQLite archive with a desktop app, local web UI, CLI, REST API, MCP server, cost reports, and session health signals. Its search surface is correspondingly larger:

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% agentsview session search --help | grep -E -- '--(fts|hybrid|regex|semantic|in )'
      --fts                      Fast tokenized FTS over messages only
      --hybrid                   Hybrid semantic + full-text search (reciprocal rank fusion)
      --in string                Comma-separated sources: messages,tool_input,tool_result (default all)
      --regex                    Treat pattern as an RE2 regex
      --semantic                 Semantic (vector) search over user/assistant messages

AgentsView documents 59 session sources against fr’s 12. Resume support is the opposite: AgentsView maps nine agent types, while fr has handoff commands for all twelve, including Pi:

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# fast-resume
Pi → pi --session <id>

# AgentsView resume map
claude, codex, traex, copilot, cursor, gemini, opencode, amp, kiro

The local footprint shows the difference in scope:

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% du -sh /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2 \
    /Applications/AgentsView.app ~/.cache/fast-resume ~/.agentsview
14M     /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fast-resume/2.11.2
116M    /Applications/AgentsView.app
772K    /Users/tperrotta/.cache/fast-resume
28M     /Users/tperrotta/.agentsview

fr treats its index as a disposable cache. AgentsView keeps sessions until agentsview prune removes them. It also sends an anonymous daily liveness ping and checks for updates; fr 2.11.2 has neither mechanism.

Given the aforementioned trade-offs: I am happier with fr. KISS. ∎

🤖 This post was drafted with an AI agent through /bloggify, then reviewed and edited by me. More agent-assisted posts.

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