I Switched from Claude to Codex Mid-Task. It Picked Up Where I Left Off.

I was in the middle of a refactor in Claude Code when it hit rate limits. Context gone. I opened Codex to continue, but it had no idea what I was working on. Started from scratch. Lost 20 minutes re-explaining.

This happens every day. You switch AI assistants because of rate limits, outages, or because one model is better at a specific task. And every time, you lose everything — the task list, the decisions made, the governance state.

The fix: shared state on disk

Delimit stores everything in ~/.delimit/ — local files, not in any model's context window. When you switch from Claude to Codex to Gemini CLI, they all read the same ledger, the same governance rules, the same memory.

Same ledger. Same governance. Same memory. Three different AI assistants.

What carries across

• Task ledger — open items, priorities, completion notes
• Governance state — API policies, security rules, evidence trails
• Deliberation history — past consensus decisions and transcripts
• Model config — which AI models are available for deliberation
• Project detection — ventures, frameworks, specs auto-detected

No extra API cost

If you pay for Claude Pro, Codex Pro, or Gemini Ultra, Delimit uses your existing CLI — no separate API keys needed. Deliberation runs through the CLIs you already pay for. Only Grok requires a separate API key (xAI has no CLI yet).

Try it

npx delimit-cli setup

One command detects all your AI assistants and configures them. Works with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini CLI.