Claude Code history: sharing across a team
How does the rest of the team see what I asked the AI?
Why this is hard
AI coding history is private by construction. Every tool writes it to the machine it ran on, under the account that ran it, in a location no colleague will ever open. That is a reasonable default for a cache and a poor one for the only written account of why a change looks the way it does.
What Claude Code specifically does to you here
Transcripts are per-project directories under one user's home folder, named after the encoded project path. There is no notion of another person: two developers on the same repository produce two unrelated sets of JSONL files, and nothing joins them.
ls ~/.claude/projects/ | head
Where Claude Code keeps this in the first place: ~/.claude/projects/<project>/<session>.jsonl. Transcripts older than 30 days are deleted by default, and nothing tells you it is happening.
What a working answer looks like
A working answer means one place where a lead can read what the team asked and what came back, without asking anyone to export anything by hand.
Start by measuring what you have. npx promptwake doctor reports what every AI tool on the machine is holding and how much of it sits inside a deletion window — no account, writes nothing, sends nothing anywhere. If the conclusion is that the record should not depend on one laptop, that is what PromptWake captures: prompt, response and the resulting diff, local by default and synced into a shared timeline on the paid tiers.
