Claude File Recovery Tool: Reconstruct Files from Claude Code Session Transcripts
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Summary
A GitHub repository for a Python tool that recovers files created and modified by Claude Code from JSONL session transcripts. The tool parses Claude's session logs stored in ~/.claude/projects/, replays Write, Edit, and Read operations in order, and reconstructs files so users can browse, search, and extract them. It features parallel processing of JSONL files with thread pools and includes a fast-reject byte check to skip progress updates.
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Claude Code stores a full log of every tool call in ~/.claude/projects/.
This tool parses those transcripts, replays Write, Edit, and Read operations in order, and reconstructs the files so you can browse, search, and extract them.
Scan — Discovers all JSONL session files under ~/.claude/projects/ and parses them in parallel using a thread pool.
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