Claude Vigil FAQs

Question 1

Does Claude Vigil protect against code changes made outside the Claude Code editor?

Accepted Answer

Yes, absolutely. A core strength of Claude Vigil is its ability to track and protect against all file modifications, including those made by external processes like bash commands (`rm`, `mv`, `sed -i`), Python scripts, or build tools, ensuring no change goes unrecorded or unrecoverable.

Question 2

How does Claude Vigil differ from Claude Code's built-in /rewind feature?

Accepted Answer

Claude Vigil significantly enhances capabilities by tracking external file changes (e.g., from bash commands), enabling named checkpoints with descriptions, offering selective file restores, providing full unified diffs, and ensuring higher reliability for rollbacks, addressing key gaps in the native /rewind.

Question 3

What is Claude Vigil and how does it help Claude Code users?

Accepted Answer

Claude Vigil is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed for Claude Code, providing robust checkpointing, snapshotting, and file recovery. It safeguards your projects against unintended changes, offering comprehensive version control beyond Claude Code's native capabilities.

Question 4

How does Claude Vigil manage storage and ensure efficient use of disk space?

Accepted Answer

Claude Vigil automatically skips derived directories (like `node_modules` and `dist`) based on your `.gitignore` to keep checkpoints lean. It also provides `vigil_delete` for efficiently removing old checkpoints and reclaiming disk space, giving you control over storage capacity.

Question 5

Can I restore individual files or only entire projects with Claude Vigil?

Accepted Answer

You can restore your entire project to any previous checkpoint state, with any displaced (modified or new) files safely preserved as artifacts. For individual file recovery, `vigil_diff` allows you to retrieve the content of any specific file from a past checkpoint, which you can then apply.

Claude Vigil

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