How I stopped re-explaining my repo when switching between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor

If you use multiple AI coding agents daily—say, Claude Code for deep multi-file refactors, OpenAI Codex for tough algorithmic bugs, and Cursor or Gemini CLI for interactive edits—you have probably hit the same wall I kept hitting:

You end up spending 10 minutes writing a long prompt: "Okay, look at git diff, I was trying to fix the auth middleware, don't touch file X, run test Y next..."

I got tired of manually playing courier between my own local coding agents. So I built Vicem —a zero-dependency CLI, local web GUI, and MCP server that extracts your active coding context into a deterministic Context Baton (.vicem/BATON.md ) and mounts it cleanly for the next agent.

Hit Claude Code's 5-hour quota mid-feature? Or watching Cursor / Codex slow to a crawl after 150k tokens of context rot?

Vicem compacts your active coding session by 80–99% (via deterministic AST code skeletonization + lossless MCP on-demand rehydration) and hands off a clean.vicem/BATON.md across Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Antigravity IDE, and Web AI in 3 seconds — with 0 npm dependencies and 0 network calls.

⭐ Tip: Click Star (top-right) to bookmark this repo for the next time your coding agent hits a 5-hour quota limit or context rot.