CRAFT Tutorials · Advanced
Made a change you regret, or something doesn’t look right? If you’ve been saving your work, getting back to a version you trust is usually one request away — Claude walks the recovery with you.
Before you start: recovery works by going back to a point you saved earlier. So it relies on having Put your project under version control turned on and on saving the occasional checkpoint. The more you save, the more places you can return to.
Roll back a recent change
If a recent edit went wrong, just describe what happened and ask to go back:
Claude looks at your saved history, finds the last good version, and walks you through restoring it. It tells you what it’s about to do before changing anything, so there are no surprises.
✓ You’ll know it worked when Claude confirms what it restored and your project is back to the version you wanted.
Recover from a backup
For a bigger problem — files missing, or things in a tangle — ask Claude to recover from your most recent backup:
Claude follows a careful recovery routine: it sizes up what went wrong, restores from your saved history or a backup, then checks the result is whole before you carry on.
What if I never saved?
Recovery can only return you to points you saved. If a project was never put under version control and nothing was backed up, there’s much less to restore — which is exactly why the habit of saving checkpoints matters. A few seconds of “save my work” now is what makes “undo” possible later.
That’s recovery: if you’ve been saving, getting back to a good version is a single request — and Claude confirms before it changes anything. A good next step: Archive a finished project.