Search returns 0 results for Claude Code checkpoints despite successful capture (CLI 0.6.1 + 0.6.2-nightly)

[WrangleMeThis]

Summary

In a real production monorepo with Entire installed via Path B (Entire wrapping Lefthook), capture works end-to-end for Claude Code sessions — trailers are attached, checkpoints land in entire/checkpoints/v1, the branch pushes to a separate private checkpoint remote, entire activity / entire dispatch / entire checkpoint explain all see the data — but entire search and entire checkpoint search return 0 results for every query, including queries that match exact content from the captured transcripts.

This is the Claude Code variant of #1171 (Codex variant, same author, brand-new repo repro). Filing separately because:

• Different agent (Claude Code, not Codex)
• Different repo profile (real multi-package monorepo, not a clean canary)
• Same end-state regardless: search is empty while every other surface sees the data

Environment

• Entire CLI: pre-flight done on 0.6.2-nightly.202605090651.30e58ea3, production rollout on stable 0.6.1
• macOS arm64
• Agent: Claude Code (claude.ai / Claude Code CLI)
• Lefthook 1.13.6 (project) / 2.1.6 (system PATH)
• Hook architecture: Path B — Entire wraps Lefthook via entire configure --force in prepare script in package.json
• Separate private checkpoint remote: agiterra/tankloop-checkpoints-private
• GitHub App: Entire installed on agiterra org with repository_selection=all

What works

• entire status — Enabled, Claude Code + Codex agents active
• Capture: every commit gets an Entire-Checkpoint: <id> trailer
• Push: entire/checkpoints/v1 syncs to the checkpoint remote on every git push
• entire checkpoint list — shows local checkpoints (2 on main)
• entire checkpoint explain <id> — shows the full transcript, prompts, file list, tokens
• entire activity — shows 11 checkpoints across 3 repos, including all of today's agiterra/tankloop work, with proper agent attribution (Claude Code 64% / Codex 36%)
• entire dispatch — generates digests citing real repo activity
• PII redaction working in captured transcripts (verified: real emails replaced with REDACTED_EMAIL)

What fails

All search variants return empty:

$ entire search "lefthook" --json
{ "results": [], "total": 0, "page": 1, "total_pages": 1, "limit": 25 }

$ entire search "redaction" --json
{ "results": [], "total": 0, "page": 1, "total_pages": 1, "limit": 25 }

$ entire search "Path B" --json
{ "results": [], "total": 0, "page": 1, "total_pages": 1, "limit": 25 }

$ entire checkpoint search "lefthook" --json
{ "results": [], "total": 0, "page": 1, "total_pages": 1, "limit": 25 }

$ entire checkpoint search "" --branch main --json
{ "results": [], "total": 0, "page": 1, "total_pages": 1, "limit": 25 }

These tokens are all in the captured transcripts and commit messages — verified via entire checkpoint explain <id> which prints them inline.

Sample checkpoints (real)

From entire checkpoint list on agiterra/tankloop main:

• 632b58b88c75 — commit 9f71259 ("chore(agents): notify on pull when entire CLI is missing")
• b5bbb47b6e39 — commit 5465328 ("feat(agents): adopt entire for session provenance (#25)")

Both contain extensive Claude Code transcripts; neither is discoverable via search.

Expected behavior

Once a checkpoint is visible in entire activity and entire checkpoint explain returns the transcript, an exact-token search from the captured prompts or transcript should be discoverable via entire search / entire checkpoint search after indexing completes.

Actual behavior

Search service returns empty for every query, no matter how recent or how stale the checkpoint, no matter which --repo, --branch, or --author filter is applied.

Impact

search is a load-bearing skill for cross-agent context recall. Without it, what-happened, search, and the Entire skills wrapping these commands are effectively non-functional for our team. The marketing value of "find prior work before changing X" disappears.

Related

• Search stays empty after successful Codex & Claude checkpoint capture in clean repo repro #1171 — Codex variant, clean repro, also from us (agiterra / WrangleMeThis). Same symptom, different agent.

🤖 Peace , B.Sweet