A new locked cleanup routine removes stray history.jsonl staging-copy files older than a minute, after acquiring a lock on history.jsonl. It reports distinct error codes/messages when a file can't be removed, and leaves recently-written files alone, flagging them as possibly still live (history_siblings_remain).
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up history.jsonl, on Explore the .claude directory.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up history.jsonl, on Explore the .claude directory.