{"version":"2.1.257","anchor":"optional-hipaa-history-retention-pruning","canonical_anchor":"optional-hipaa-history-retention-pruning","heading":"Optional HIPAA history-retention pruning","tier":"notice","area":"Data Retention","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257\/e\/optional-hipaa-history-retention-pruning","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.257","markdown":"### Optional HIPAA history-retention pruning\n\nHIPAA-configured organizations get an extra retention pass that prunes stale entries from local history files.\n\nDuring 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.\n\n- Flag `tengu_hipaa_history_retention_prune`: Not enough to say (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.257; this account: no value returned, anonymous baseline: no value returned, compiled default: 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.\n- Area: Data Retention\n- Names: `history.jsonl`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 3\/5\n- Signal: 3\/5"}