backup

A command that creates backups of Claude Code configuration using the claude-backup command-line tool.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run full or selective backups, skip project data or history, preview a backup, include environment files, or enforce stricter secret checks.
Why use it?
It preserves configuration and optionally project files or history, while offering a preview mode and warnings about secrets.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/dberuben/claude-code-backup/backup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dberuben/claude-code-backup
Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 349 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00014 $0.00349
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash aad14aac3168, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

backup scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugin/commands/backup.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

You are running the claude-backup CLI. It is a standalone tool; do not assume anything about Claude Code's internal state.

The user's arguments are: $ARGUMENTS

Map each space-separated keyword to a flag (ignore unknown words):

keyword flag
dry-run --dry-run
no-project --no-project
no-history --no-history
full --full
strict-secrets --strict-secrets
include-env --include-env

Then run claude-backup with the mapped flags via the Bash tool, for example:

  • /backupclaude-backup
  • /backup dry-runclaude-backup --dry-run
  • /backup no-historyclaude-backup --no-history
  • /backup dry-run strict-secretsclaude-backup --dry-run --strict-secrets

Report the resulting archive path and surface any secret warnings the tool prints. If the claude-backup command is not found, tell the user to run the project's install.sh and ensure ~/.local/bin is on their PATH.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 34 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A aad14aac3168

Subscribe to this mod's changes

backup is a command published in the GitHub repository dberuben/claude-code-backup (2 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.