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Reinstate is a software utility developed and published by Harjot Singh Rana, currently available at version 0.5.1 across a total of four released versions. The software belongs to the developer tools category, specifically addressing the needs of users who work with coding agents across multiple machines. Its core purpose is to enable the continuation of supported coding-agent sessions across configured devices, allowing a session started on one machine to be picked up and resumed on another without interruption to the workflow. Reinstate achieves this by securely synchronizing supported coding-agent sessions between the devices a user has configured, and it does so using end-to-end encryption, meaning that session data is protected in transit and remains unreadable to intermediaries during the synchronization process. A further defining characteristic of the software is its reliance on storage that the user controls, rather than requiring session data to be entrusted to a third-party service operated by the publisher. This combination of end-to-end encryption and user-controlled storage forms the foundation of the software's approach to security and privacy when handling potentially sensitive development session data. Typical use cases for Reinstate include developers who move between a desktop workstation and a laptop, professionals who split their time between office and home machines, and anyone running supported coding agents in environments distributed across more than one configured device who wishes to preserve session continuity. In each of these scenarios, the software removes the friction of losing context when switching hardware, since the active coding-agent session can be reinstated on the destination device. With four versions published to date, the software has progressed through multiple releases, and version 0.5.1 represents the current iteration of the product, reflecting ongoing maintenance and refinement of its session synchronization capabilities for supported coding agents.
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