Project timeline and recovery context

The project timeline gives an agent a durable record beyond its current conversation. It stores bridge activity and authored notes under .claudus/timeline, with checkpoint bodies that describe completed work, verification, open questions and the next action. Its local queries work while Unreal is stopped.

• Write timeline note and timeline checkpoint entries with package and tag context. These use the backend when available and can append locally when it is unavailable; --offline explicitly selects local writing.
• Use list, search, show, walk and asset-history to find events and trace recorded work for a package. sessions and export provide broader views.
• Use context to assemble a compact handoff and diff to compare checkpoint boundaries. The context budget is approximate; authored checkpoint bodies can exceed it.
• Keep the append-only daily event files and checkpoint Markdown in the project store. The query index can be rebuilt with timeline index repair.
• Choose retention deliberately: compact, purge and prune affect retained history. Events from different writers in the same millisecond have an ID-based ordering, not a guaranteed invocation order.