jackin purge

Synopsis

jackin purge <SELECTOR> [OPTIONS]

Delete persisted state (Claude history, settings, GitHub CLI state, plugins) for an agent without stopping it. Use this to start fresh without rebuilding the Docker image.

Arguments

Argument	Required	Description
SELECTOR	Yes	Agent class selector (e.g., agent-smith, chainargos/backend-engineer)

Options

Option	Description
--all	Delete state for every instance, not just the default

Examples

# Purge default instance state
jackin purge agent-smith

# Purge all instances
jackin purge agent-smith --all

# Purge a namespaced agent
jackin purge chainargos/backend-engineer

What gets deleted

Persisted state at ~/.jackin/data/<container-name>/:

• .claude/ — Claude Code session history and configuration
• .claude.json — Claude settings
• .config/gh/ — GitHub CLI authentication and settings
• plugins.json — installed Claude plugins

The Docker image and cached agent repo are not affected. Use --rebuild on the next jackin load to force a full image rebuild.