You have chatted too long, and noticed that the chat seems to be losing interest. The replies come slowly, it forgets things you said earlier, and the instructions you set up at the start seem to have slipped its mind. It might contradict something you settled an hour ago, or ask for a file you already gave it. These are the warning signs that a chat is filling up.
Then the dreaded line appears: “Compressing earlier messages so we can continue chatting.” It sounds harmless. It is not. It means the chat has run out of room and is squeezing your older messages to make space. This compression keeps happening as the chat grows, and each pass can quietly drop things — decisions you made, the contents of files, the thread of what you were actually doing. The chat keeps talking, but it is no longer all there.
Rescue is built to carry your work into a new chat, and should be used at the first sign of any of the above symptoms of chat degradation. Load Rescue into the tired (“full”) chat and it captures the working state — your goal, your rules, the files in play, the decisions made, and the next step.
- Claude / ChatGPT: Rescue builds a zip file. Download it, open a new chat, upload it, and say “Read and follow directions.”
- Gemini: Rescue returns the instructions as a chat response. Copy it, open a new chat, and paste it in — the carried files travel inline as markdown text. If you wish to keep a copy, paste the buffer contents into a file for archive purposes.
Rescue can also transfer your chat from one platform to another, and serve as a way to summarize your chats — keeping all the related files from a session together.
Compatibility: Tested on Claude and ChatGPT. Claude and ChatGPT use a downloadable .zip file; Google Gemini does not support .zip, so it uses a text-native version (see the Gemini page). Not tested against Grok.
Rescue is free and ad-free — open source under the MIT license, provided “as is” with no warranty.
Have a question or feedback? Start a thread in the Rescue discussions on GitHub.
The download is served from GitHub. Source and license: github.com/pocojoe/rescue · MIT License · © 2026 Joseph M. Miller MD MPH.