During the periodic retention sweep, organizations on a HIPAA-flagged configuration now get an additional prune pass that rewrites or deletes stale entries from the local history.jsonl and related history files. Results are tracked via entriesPruned/errors and reported as historyEntriesPruned in tengu_retention_sweep telemetry.
tengu_hipaa_history_retention_prune Not enough to sayNothing here resolved what this flag was doing on this version, so nothing here should be read as on or off.
This account: no value returned · anonymous baseline: no value returned · compiled default in v2.1.257: on
These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.
Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.257. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
| `~/.claude/history.jsonl` | Up-arrow prompt recall, `Ctrl+R` history search, and `!` shell-command completion |claude-directory see the edit
Anthropic's documentation has since written up history.jsonl, on Explore the .claude directory.
New in this build: tengu_hipaa_history_retention_prune