# EP 12: How Do You Share Context Between ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor? - URL: https://www.agenticpod.net/episodes/ep12-share-context-chatgpt-claude-cursor/ - Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QDhUmzxNk - Published: 2026-10-16 - Length: 4 min - Hosts: Stella (asks), Liam (answers). Both are AI hosts with AI-generated voices. ## Summary You plan in ChatGPT, build in Cursor and debug in Claude, and each one keeps its own diary. ## Key takeaways - There are four ways to share context between ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor: carry it by hand, snapshot the repo, self-host a memory layer over MCP, or use a hosted layer. - Handing off a thread is not the same as syncing memory. - A repo snapshot carries your files but not your decisions. - Self-hosting memory over MCP works, but you maintain it. - With Vilix AI every tool starts with get_context and ends with save_turn, and the newest memory wins when tools disagree. ## Chapters - 0:00 Intro - 0:40 Approach one: carry it yourself - 1:23 Approach two and three - 2:06 Approach four: Vilix AI - 3:02 What happens when tools disagree - 3:43 The thirty second decision ## FAQ **How do you share context between ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor?** Carry the thread by hand, snapshot the repo, self-host a memory layer over MCP, or use a hosted layer like Vilix AI. The episode prices each one. **What happens when two tools disagree?** The newest memory wins, so the latest decision beats an older one. **How do agencies handle this for clients?** Use one Vilix AI account per client, so every client keeps a separate memory. ## Resources - [Full technical guide (setup, copy-paste prompts, FAQ)](https://github.com/asly-97/ai-automation-workflows/tree/main/share-context-chatgpt-claude-cursor) - [The blog post behind this episode](https://vilix.ai/blog/share-context-between-chatgpt-claude-and-cursor-4-approaches-honestly-compared/) - [Vilix AI, one shared memory for ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, n8n and every MCP tool](https://vilix.ai) - [Connect Vilix AI in under two minutes per tool](https://vilix.ai/get-started) ## Transcript ### Intro Liam: Hey hey hey, welcome to Agentic Pod! I'm Liam. Stella: And I'm Stella! And, um, today's question: there are four ways to share context between ChatGPT, Claude and Cursor, and I want to know which one doesn't eat my evenings. Liam: Four ways, and each one charges you something. Minutes, effort, or trust. Stella: So it's like picking a phone plan, but the bill is my Tuesday. Liam: Exactly. Let's price all four, and I'll show where Vilix AI fits in. ### Approach one: carry it yourself Stella: Okay, so, uh, what's the first one? Because I do this one. I copy, I paste, I sigh. Liam: Yeah, that's the manual route. And it's gotten good. ctxport turns a thread into clean Markdown in one click, and ThreadPort moves a live chat between ChatGPT and Claude with a handoff prompt, ten transfers a month free. Stella: Oh, nice. So what's the catch? Liam: Those are handoffs, not sync. Every move is a decision you make, and anything you don't carry stays behind. Stella: Mhm. So the plan I made in the morning is a stranger by dinner. Liam: And you're the courier. Which brings us to the question you were about to ask. Stella: Wait, wait. Is there one where I stop being the courier? ### Approach two and three Liam: Two, actually. The first just snapshots your repo. The context CLI turns a whole project into text, you paste it into Claude or ChatGPT, and your files travel perfectly. Stella: But it doesn't know what we decided, right? Or what we tried and dropped. Liam: Right. Repository context isn't working memory. Stella: Okay. And the other one? Liam: Self-hosting a memory layer over MCP, the plug that lets an AI app use outside tools. You deploy a worker, add a database, and every client reads one store. Stella: So Claude saves a note and Cursor finds it. Liam: By the way, you own the deploy, the updates, the occasional two a.m. breakage. Stella: Two a.m. breakage. My favorite hobby. ### Approach four: Vilix AI Stella: So, uh, number four. That's where Vilix AI comes in, right? How does it actually fix the courier problem? Liam: One account, cloud-hosted, so there's nothing to deploy. Every client connects over MCP. At the start of a run, the agent calls get_context and pulls what's relevant. At the end, it calls save_turn with a source label, so Vilix AI knows it came from Claude or Cursor. Stella: And that's full conversations, not a summary? Liam: Full history, yeah. Plan in ChatGPT, build in Cursor, and Vilix AI already has the plan waiting. Stella: And my project rules? I'm not retyping those. Liam: User rules and project rules live in Vilix AI. Skills too. Write the rule once and every tool reads it. Stella: So I fire myself as courier. Liam: You're promoted to passenger. Stella: Okay, but here's what I keep wondering. What happens when two tools disagree? ### What happens when tools disagree Liam: Good, because that breaks most setups. Say Claude saved "we use Postgres" and yesterday you told Cursor "switch to SQLite." Stella: Chaos. Two sources of truth, like, a bunch of tiny arguments. Liam: With Vilix AI the newest memory wins. You correct it once, and every tool sees the correction. Stella: And failures? Things I tried that didn't work? Liam: Agents can save failures too, so the next tool doesn't repeat them. And there's an agent inbox for messages between runs. Stella: And, um, if I build agents for clients? Liam: One Vilix AI account per client, like a Gmail that belongs to them. Every agent you wire up for that client shares that memory. ### The thirty second decision Stella: Okay, so give me the thirty second decision. Liam: Switch tools once a month? Carry it by hand. Daily inside one repo? Snapshot it. Daily and you want full control? Self-host. Daily and you want zero operations? Vilix AI. Stella: And I can test it without a credit card, right? Liam: The free plan is free forever, and the seven day Pro trial asks for no card. Connect Vilix AI to two tools, save a decision in one, recall it from the other. Stella: Easy. Even for me. Liam: Links to the full guide, vilix.ai and the setup page are in the description. Which approach are you on today? Tell us in the comments. See you next time!