lore status

Show an at-a-glance overview of Lore: whether the daemon is running, which watchers are active, database statistics, sessions linked to the current commit, and your most recent sessions.

Usage

lore status
lore status --format json

Sample Output

Lore
Reasoning history for code

Daemon:
  running (PID 12345)

Watchers:
  claude-code: enabled (45 session files)
  aider: available (not enabled) (3 session files)
  gemini: enabled (no sessions found)
  codex: not available
  copilot: not available

Database:
  Sessions: 142
  Messages: 8934
  Links:    67
  Size:     12.4 MB

Current commit (a1b2c3d):
  Linked sessions: 1
  - c9731a91 (566 messages)

Recent sessions:
  c9731a91  2 hours ago    566 msgs    main    myapp
  e5f6a7b8  1 days ago     231 msgs    dev     backend

If no sessions have been imported yet but session sources are available, a hint is shown:

Hint: Run 'lore import' to import sessions from available sources

What It Shows

Daemon

Whether the background daemon is running and its process ID. If the daemon version differs from the CLI version, a restart is recommended.

Watchers

Each supported tool watcher and its state:

enabled - the watcher is turned on in your config
available (not enabled) - the tool is installed but the watcher is off
not available - the tool was not detected on this machine

The number of discovered session files is shown for available watchers.

Database

Total counts of sessions, messages, and links, plus the size of the database file on disk.

Current commit

When run inside a git repository, lists the sessions linked to the current HEAD commit. This section is skipped when you are not in a git repository.

Recent sessions

The five most recent sessions, showing the short ID, how long ago each started, message count, git branch, and working directory.

Options

Option	Description
`-f, --format <FORMAT>`	Output format: `text` (default) or `json`

JSON Output

For scripting and automation:

lore status --format json

{
  "daemon": {
    "running": true,
    "message": "running (PID 12345)"
  },
  "watchers": [
    { "name": "claude-code", "available": true, "enabled": true, "session_files": 45 }
  ],
  "database": {
    "sessions": 142,
    "messages": 8934,
    "links": 67,
    "size_bytes": 13045760
  },
  "current_commit": {
    "sha": "a1b2c3d...",
    "linked_sessions": 1,
    "session_ids": ["c9731a91-..."]
  },
  "recent_sessions": [
    {
      "id": "c9731a91-...",
      "started_at": "2025-12-25T17:52:00Z",
      "message_count": 566,
      "branch": "main",
      "directory": "/Users/dev/myapp"
    }
  ]
}