Claude Code Remembers Everything and Backs Up Nothing

Claude Code keeps two things on my laptop that took months to build up and would take months to rebuild. Until recently, neither one was backed up. The first is memory. Every project gets a directory under ~/.claude/projects/, and in it Claude writes one Markdown file per thing it has learned: how I want pull requests opened, which CLI profile is read-only, which approach I rejected and why. An index file ties them together. Mine is at 351 files across 25 projects. That is 351 corrections I do not want to make twice. ...

October 23, 2026 · 9 min · 1870 words · Scott Brown