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type: term
title: '**cross-session persistence**'
description: >-
  **cross-session persistence** — the property of Claude Code's Tasks system
  that the task ledger lives on disk (in a `tasks` folder in the home directory)
  rather than inside any one conversation, so tasks carry over between sessions
  and can be shared by multiple Claude instances
  [^01a0f15a-b089-7af8-a043-1786fa8de18a@1342].
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  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/cross-session-persistence-83d0c3f8851a
markdown: >-
  https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/cross-session-persistence-83d0c3f8851a.md
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updated: '2026-10-23T22:12:35.346Z'
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# \*\*cross-session persistence\*\*

Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/explore/term/cross-session-persistence-83d0c3f8851a

Parent: [Channel index](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/everyinc/llms.txt)

## Definition

**cross-session persistence** — the property of Claude Code's Tasks system that the task ledger lives on disk (in a `tasks` folder in the home directory) rather than inside any one conversation, so tasks carry over between sessions and can be shared by multiple Claude instances [^01a0f15a-b089-7af8-a043-1786fa8de18a@1342].

In this channel's material, **cross-session persistence** describes how Claude Code's Tasks system stores its task ledger _outside_ any single session — in a `tasks` folder in the home directory, with an environment variable for shared lists — so that work survives from one session to the next [^01a0f15a-b089-7af8-a043-1786fa8de18a@1342]. Trevor frames the motivation: agents were burning enormous time and tokens rewriting markdown ledgers and going back into original brainstorm and plan files just to keep them current. The brainstorm should _seed_ the plan; the plan is a _snapshot in time_, not the running ledger of work — moving the ledger out of the session removes that overhead entirely [^01a0f15a-b089-7af8-a043-1786fa8de18a@235] [^01a0f15a-b089-7af8-a043-1786fa8de18a@246].