3:47pm. Mid-refactor. "Rate limit reached."
Your code is half-written. Your plan is in your head. ShardStitch captures your entire session — git diff, changed files, dependency graph, intent — and stitches it into the next AI tool. One hotkey. Keep building like nothing happened.
How it works
- Hit a rate limit in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, or Gemini
- Press Alt+G
- ShardStitch scans your project — git state, files, dependencies — and generates a continuation prompt formatted for the target tool
- Handover is copied to your clipboard and injected into the target tool's pickup file (AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, .cursorrules)
- Open the next tool and keep building
Under 30 seconds, end to end.
Not just for switching tools
Long AI chats accumulate a huge context tree — token burn climbs, responses slow down, and eventually you hit "Service is busy" even with quota left. ShardStitch is the clean-restart button: extract a compact, structured context and start fresh in the same tool, at a fraction of the tokens.
Works after you're locked out
Sync-style tools need a living session. ShardStitch never asks the AI anything — it rebuilds your working state from what survives on disk. It works at exactly the moment you need it: when you're locked out.
Requirements
This extension connects to the ShardStitch desktop app running locally (it does the scanning and generation — 100% local, no cloud, no telemetry, no account).
Get the app at shardstitch.com — one-time purchase, lifetime license, no subscription.
Commands
| Command | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Handover: Quick Switch | Alt+G |
| Handover: Open Dashboard | — |
| Handover: Scan Project | — |
| Handover: Check Rate Limits | — |
| Handover: Inject Handover | — |
Works in VS Code, Cursor, and other VS Code forks.
Support
[email protected] — the founder personally answers every email within 24 hours.