Where Cline stores your task history

Cline, the open-source coding agent for VS Code and the terminal, moved its storage in v4.

#Where the files are

v4 extension and the Cline CLI:

~/.cline/data/
├── db/sessions.db                      # SQLite index of sessions
└── sessions/<id>/<id>.messages.json    # one folder per session

On Windows: C:\Users\<user>\.cline\data. CLINE_DATA_DIR or --data-dir moves it.

Before v4 (still readable, no longer written): VS Code's globalStorage, under saoudrizwan.claude-dev/tasks/<taskId>/, with api_conversation_history.json, ui_messages.json and task_metadata.json per task. Older files use Anthropic's message format and track tokens and cost per task.

#Resume, export and delete

In the extension, the History view resumes, deletes or clears tasks (favorites are kept).

With the CLI:

cline history [--json]
cline --id <id>                          # resume
cline history export <id> -o task.html
cline history delete --session-id <id>

#Privacy notes

Sessions are local unless you use Cline Cloud sessions (ids starting ses-). Enterprise prompt storage backs up to the customer's own bucket.

The groundedby evaluator does not read Cline sessions yet.