The business post (order 28) of the Sandbox Series. Sandbox lifecycle management: pause/resume, snapshot/hibernation, resume concepts, implementation, and applicable scenarios for long-running tasks.
Claude Code writes every session line by line to a JSONL file under ~/.claude/projects/, kept for 30 days by default. This post breaks down --continue vs --resume, session naming rules, /branch fork semantics, and transcript export and cleanup settings.