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Summary

Adds SessionStorage protocol with S3 and GCS implementations for cloud-based session persistence.

Use cases:

  • Horizontal scaling (shared sessions across servers)
  • Ephemeral filesystems (containers, serverless)
  • Custom backends (protocol is extensible)

Installation

pip install claude-agent-sdk[s3]   # AWS S3, DO Spaces, R2, MinIO
pip install claude-agent-sdk[gcs]  # Google Cloud Storage
pip install claude-agent-sdk[cloud] # Both

Usage

from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeAgentOptions
from claude_agent_sdk.session_storage import S3SessionStorage, S3Config

storage = S3SessionStorage(S3Config(bucket="my-sessions", region="us-east-1"))
options = ClaudeAgentOptions(session_storage=storage)
# Sessions auto-sync to cloud

What's included

  • SessionStorage protocol + BaseSessionStorage ABC
  • S3SessionStorage (works with S3-compatible services)
  • GCSSessionStorage
  • Auto-upload on session end via Stop hook
  • Auto-download on resume
  • 60 unit tests
  • Examples with caching patterns

Note: Cloud storage adds 50-500ms latency per operation. Docs include caching patterns for production scale.

Closes #432

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feat: Add cloud session storage for horizontal scaling
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Implements SessionStorage protocol with S3 and GCS reference implementations
to enable cloud persistence for session transcripts. This supports:

- Horizontal scaling across multiple servers with shared sessions
- Ephemeral filesystem environments (containers, serverless)
- Extensible architecture for custom backends (Azure Blob, etc.)

Key changes:
- Add SessionStorage protocol and BaseSessionStorage ABC
- Add S3SessionStorage with support for S3-compatible services
  (DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare R2, MinIO)
- Add GCSSessionStorage for Google Cloud Storage
- Add SessionSyncManager for automatic sync via hooks
- Add session_storage field to ClaudeAgentOptions
- Add optional dependencies: [s3], [gcs], [cloud]
- Add SessionStorageError for storage failures
- Add 60 unit tests for session storage
- Add examples for basic usage and caching patterns
- Update README with session storage documentation

Closes anthropics#432
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Feature Request: Cloud-Based Session Storage for Session Management

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