Comment by espeed
2 days ago
Claude Code is deleting your context history on a timer. I wanted to build a searchable index of my context history, and tonight I discovered, "The default retention is roughly 30–45 days. Anything older gets removed automatically." https://code.claude.com/docs/en/data-usage#data-retention This is nuts. Anthropic should not be deleting your data on your own device.
30 days is just a default, so your session data doesn’t fill your hard drive. It’s a configurable setting. You can make the retention as long as you want.
A new default. That wasn't the default a few months ago. Silently deleting your user's data is so stupid on so many levels. They have no idea what they're doing.
They may also realize that these chats are super sensitive especially around ppl constantly pasting secrets into their chats
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It sounds like you are saying that this is reasonable in any kind of way, it's not. This is like Gmail deleting non-spam email after 30 days to prevent your inbox from filling up.
It’s nothing like that. 99% of users have no idea these logs exist or have any use for them. Even the original complaint went months without realizing it - of all the things to complain about this tool, this is so low down there.
No I can't!
I wasn't (until reading this thread) aware of the deletion policy, so I certainly couldn't have discovered where the configurable setting is and adjusted it.
Well that explains where my sessions went on my side project that I came back to after a few months... Thought I was going crazy
Every backdoor and security no-op Claude Code created, I had been documenting and reporting to them. They deleted the evidence. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/59018
Holy shit, thanks for mentioning it, the frontier labs truly have no idea what they are doing when it comes to software quality.
which is why I cried inside to myself when my manager posted Boris's "Steps of AI Adoption", which reduces "adoption" to how many agents you run at once, on a logarithmic scale (0, 1, 10, 100, 1000 agents at once).
Because # of agents is the only metric that matters.