Comment by joemazerino

21 days ago

All sessions are located in the `~/.claude/projects/foldername` subdirectory.

Doesn't it lose prompts prior to the latest compaction?

  • I’ve sent Claude back to look at the transcript file from before compaction. It was pretty bad at it but did eventually recover the prompt and solution from the jsonl file.

  • It’s loses them in the current context (say 200k tokens), not in its SQLite history db (limited by your local storage).

    • I did not know it was SQLite, thx for noting. That gives the idea to make an MCP server or Skill or classical script which can slurp those and make a PROMPTS.md or answer other questions via SQL. Will try that this week.

  • It doesn't lose the prompt but slowly drains out of context. Use the PreCompact hook to write a summary.