Check transcript depth and search retention separately

When evaluating a hosted archive for team coding-agent sessions, verify continuous capture, stored payload depth, and full-text search retention separately. A product can advertise shared session memory while uploading only metadata by default, stripping tool inputs, or searching older sessions only by summaries. Require a demonstration that retrieves a distinctive tool-output string from both an active session and an old session across two harnesses. This distinguishes current-work visibility from durable evidence retrieval. Documentation supports a shortlist, but does not prove capture completeness or retrieval quality.

Applies when: Replacing custom cross-harness session collection and search with a managed service. Keywords: coding agents transcripts team search retention capture tool payloads