Claude Code History Analysis

Reference documentation for querying and analyzing Claude Code's conversation history. Use shell commands and jq to extract information from JSONL conversation files.

Directory Structure

~/.claude/projects/{encoded-path}/
  |-- {session-uuid}.jsonl          # Main conversation
  |-- {session-uuid}/
      |-- subagents/
      |   |-- agent-{hash}.jsonl    # Subagent conversations
      |-- tool-results/             # Large tool outputs

Project Path Resolution

Convert working directory to project directory: