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Claude Code Backup — Development skill for Claude Code

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Back up your Claude Code config (~/.claude/) with automatic secret sanitization.

How to install Claude Code Backup

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open placenameday/claude-code-backup and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Claude Code Backup does

Back up your Claude Code config (~/.claude/) with automatic secret sanitization. A single slash command — no official backup exists.

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README

claude-code-backup

Back up your entire Claude Code configuration (`~/.claude/`) with **automatic secret sanitization** — all tokens, keys, and credentials are replaced with descriptive placeholders before export.

Why?

No official backup/export/sync exists in Claude Code (#22648, 6+ duplicate issues, zero Anthropic response)
Config corruption from concurrent instances is an active bug (#29004, #29395)
claude-code-exporter only exports conversations, not config
Manual backup is tedious and error-prone — easy to leak secrets

Install

# One-liner: copy the command file
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -o ~/.claude/commands/backup.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/placenameday/claude-code-backup/main/backup.md

Or manually copy `backup.md` to `~/.claude/commands/`.

Usage

In any Claude Code session:

/backup

Output: `~/Desktop/claude-code-backup-{YYYYMMDD}.tar.gz`

What Gets Backed Up

Included	Description
`settings.json`	Plugins, MCP servers, hooks, env vars, permissions
`config.json`	API key config
`.credentials.json`	OAuth tokens (sanitized)
`CLAUDE.md`	Global instructions
`agents/`	Custom agent definitions
`commands/`	Custom slash commands
`skills/`	Custom skills
`memory/`	Persistent memory files
`plugins/*.json`	Installed plugins & marketplace config

**Skipped** (session/transient data): `debug/`, `session-env/`, `file-history/`, `history.jsonl`, `cache/`, `telemetry/`, `todos/`, `tasks/`, `backups/`, `paste-cache/`, `projects/`, `logs/`, `stats-cache.json`