Show HN: Claude-File-Recovery, recover files from your ~/.claude sessions

Source: Hacker News

Overview

Claude Code deleted my research and plan markdown files and informed me: “I accidentally rm -rf’d real directories in my Obsidian vault through a symlink it didn’t realize was there: I made a mistake.”

Unfortunately the backup of my documentation hadn’t run for a month. I built claude-file-recovery, a CLI tool and TUI that can extract your files from your ~/.claude session history. It can recover any file that Claude Code ever read, edited, or wrote, and even retrieve earlier versions of a file at a specific point in time. You can find it on my GitHub and install it via pip.

Installation

pip install claude-file-recovery

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