What Claude Code stores on your machine (and how to see it)
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Claude Code keeps a lot of data in ~/.claude/ that most people never look at. I wanted to know what was there, so I built a scanner. On my machine it found: 76 persistent memory files across 10 projects 4,445 session transcripts totaling 1.8GB 2.2GB total data footprint The memory files are markdown with frontmatter, organized by type: what Claude thinks your role is, feedback you've given, project context, reference links. It remembers more than you'd expect. The tool npx ag