https://chatrecall.dev/guides/ Durable answers about where AI coding tools keep your sessions, what they forget, and what to do about it. en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://chatrecall.dev/guides/cursor-chat-history/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/cursor-chat-history/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cursor keeps chat history in two different SQLite databases depending on whether you used the IDE or the CLI, and it has moved the IDE format three times. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-sessions-disappeared/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-sessions-disappeared/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four things make Claude Code sessions vanish from the picker, and only one deletes anything. Check the other three before you conclude the work is gone. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-session-history-viewer/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-session-history-viewer/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Code keeps every session as a JSONL file on disk. Two built-in commands show you part of it, the files show you the rest, and neither one searches. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-memory-mcp/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-memory-mcp/ Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Which file Claude Code reads, what the entry looks like, and the one key that makes a correctly configured server register and then expose no tools at all. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-compact-instructions/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-compact-instructions/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Compaction decides what survives unless you decide for it. Passing instructions to /compact, and the PreCompact hook that supplies them every time. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-clear-vs-compact/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-clear-vs-compact/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One summarizes the conversation and keeps going. The other starts a fresh one. What each does to the transcript on disk, and which to reach for. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/context-left-until-auto-compact/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/context-left-until-auto-compact/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT The percentage in the status line, what makes it fall, how to move the threshold, and what actually happens to your conversation when it reaches zero. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-auto-memory-limits/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-auto-memory-limits/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Auto memory writes notes about your preferences per repository, on one machine. What it is good at, the four boundaries it does not cross, and what to pair it with. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/does-claude-code-remember-previous-sessions/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/does-claude-code-remember-previous-sessions/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Partly, and the part it forgets is the expensive one. What CLAUDE.md, auto memory and --continue each carry across, and what none of them carry. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/where-ai-coding-tools-store-sessions/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/where-ai-coding-tools-store-sessions/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Exact paths and formats for every AI coding tool chat-recall reads: and the retention period that quietly deletes them. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/api-key-pasted-into-ai-chat/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/api-key-pasted-into-ai-chat/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Deleting the chat does not remove it. Where the key actually lives, how to find every session that contains one, and what to do in what order. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-compact-context-loss/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-code-compact-context-loss/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT What auto-compact does to a long session, why the assistant starts contradicting itself afterwards, and how to get the lost detail back instead of retyping it. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/mcp-memory-servers-compared/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/mcp-memory-servers-compared/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Knowledge-graph stores, note-takers and session indexes are three different products wearing one label. Which one you need depends on a single question. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-continue-alternative/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/claude-continue-alternative/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT claude --continue resumes one session, in one tool, in one directory. What to use when the thing you need is older than that, or was not in Claude Code at all. https://chatrecall.dev/guides/multiple-ai-coding-tools/ https://chatrecall.dev/guides/multiple-ai-coding-tools/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical setup for working across several AI coding tools at once: what breaks when you switch tools, and how to keep one memory across all of them.