Your Claude Code Settings Will Die With Your Machine

I've been using Claude Code heavily for a few months. Skills, custom rules, MCP configs, memories across a dozen projects. Built up a nice setup. Then I thought: what happens if this laptop dies tomorrow? I went looking for where Claude Code actually stores everything. It's... a lot of places. ~/.claude/ ├── CLAUDE.md # your global instructions ├── settings.json # global settings ├── memories/ # things Claude remembers about you ├── skills/ # custom skills/commands ├── rules/ # behavior rules ├── plans/ # saved plans ├── projects/ # per-project memories, encoded paths │ ├── -home-you-project-a / │ │ └── memory/ │ └── -home-you-project-b / │ └── memory/ # PLUS every project directory: ~/myproject/.claude/ ├── CLAUDE.md ├── settings.json ├── skills/ └── rules/ A typical power user has 600+ items spread across 8+ scopes. Most of these files you probably never manually touched. Claude Code creates them quietly in the background as you work. And none of it is backed up by default. Lose the