AI Workspace Backup

Overview

Your conversations with Claude.ai, ChatGPT, Gemini, and other hosted AI platforms contain valuable IP, business decisions, and knowledge that you cannot recreate. These conversations exist only on a single provider's servers. You have no backup if the provider suspends your account, changes their terms of service, experiences an outage, or shuts down the service.

AI Workspace Backup automatically captures all conversations, artifacts (code, documents, designs), projects, custom memories, and custom agents across all your AI platforms. Everything is encrypted and stored in your own backup vault — completely outside the provider's control.

Supported Providers

BackupEngine backs up conversations from these hosted AI platforms:

Capture Methods (3 Layers)

BackupEngine uses multiple capture methods for comprehensive coverage:

• •Browser Extension (Layer 1) — Real-time capture as you type. Install the BackupEngine extension to capture every conversation immediately. Works offline-first and syncs when connected.
• •Scheduled Data Export (Layer 2) — Universal fallback for providers that support data export APIs. BackupEngine automatically downloads your data export weekly and backs it up.
• •Official API Sync (Layer 3) — For Enterprise and Team accounts, BackupEngine uses official APIs (where available) to sync conversations directly without user intervention.

Local Agent Transcripts

In addition to hosted AI conversations, BackupEngine automatically detects and backs up transcripts from local AI development tools running on your machine. No browser extension needed — these are detected directly from the file system:

• •Claude Code (this IDE) — Conversation history and code suggestions automatically backed up.
• •Cursor — All chat sessions and inline suggestions from the Cursor editor.
• •Windsurf — Codebase chat history and agent transcripts from Windsurf AI editor.
• •GitHub Copilot Chat — Chat session history from VS Code / JetBrains / Visual Studio integrations.

Setup Steps

Connect your AI accounts in three steps:

• •Open customer portal → AI Assets → AI Accounts.
• •Choose a provider (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.).
• •Install the browser extension (one-click link) or sign in via OAuth if the provider supports it.

CLI Examples

# List all backed-up AI conversations
backupengine ai-assets list --type ai_workspace

# List local agent transcripts (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf)
backupengine ai-assets list --type ai_agent_transcript

# View conversation snapshots
backupengine ai-assets snapshots --asset "claude-workspace"

# Export a conversation to markdown
backupengine ai-assets export --asset "claude-workspace" --format markdown

# Restore a specific conversation version
backupengine ai-assets restore --asset "claude-workspace" --version "2025-04-15"

Privacy & Security

Your AI conversations are your intellectual property. BackupEngine treats them with the same encryption and security as all other backed-up data:

• •Client-side encryption: Conversations are encrypted with AES-256-GCM on your device before backup.
• •Zero-knowledge: BackupEngine servers never see plaintext conversations. We store only encrypted data and metadata.
• •No sharing: Your conversations are never shared with AI providers or third parties.
• •Audit trail: Full backup history is available so you can see when conversations were captured and restored.