Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it

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Post by ojura » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

Beware, Claude Code deletes >30 day old transcripts. Anthropic won't fix it
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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

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Post by pigeonwarz » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC

The best mitigation I've found against this is training Claude to collate what it does within the project dir, specifically a CLAUDE.md vision file and .claude/changelog that documents the changes it makes. The biggest pain point though is remembering to force it to do that between sessions (man is that contextual memory unreliable sometimes).

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Post by Rene_Lutz » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

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Post by astrodust » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:54 PM UTC

That Claude can't retain and reference these in the future, SQLite could do this trivially, is wild.

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Post by midnitewarrior » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

idk if it's broken.

I think it's more like, "We don't want our harness to need to be able to interpret every version of our conversation format indefinitely."

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Post by preciousoo » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

Isn’t “Anthropic won’t fix it” a little sensational for barely month old issue with little activity(two upvotes, one of which is me), in backlog of 5k+? Agree that it’s a real issue that need fixing however

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Post by Deukhoofd » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

So it's a config setting you can change? What would you expect them to fix, that sounds like a feature?

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Post by 8note » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

preciousoo wrote: post #7

Isn’t “Anthropic won’t fix it” a little sensational for barely month old issue with little activity(two upvotes, one of which is me), in backlog of 5k+? Agree that it’s a real issue that need fixing however

"fix it" here is reverting their bad change

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Post by bpodgursky » Tue, Jun 30, 2026, 2:57 PM UTC

It's on your computer you can literally just make a crontab to copy them somewhere else.