/insights overwrites previous reports without warning and lacks date-range filtering
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened May 6, 2026 by leogallego Closed Jun 5, 2026
Problem
Running /insights overwrites ~/.claude/usage-data/report.html without any warning. If a user had a previous report (e.g., from last month), it's silently lost.
Additionally, there's no way to generate insights for a specific time period — it's always a fixed 30-day lookback.
Suggested improvements
- Don't overwrite existing reports — either save with timestamps (e.g.,
report-2026-05-06.html) or warn the user and ask for confirmation before overwriting. - Add date-range filtering — allow something like
/insights --from 2026-04-01 --to 2026-04-15or/insights --week lastto generate reports for specific periods. Weekly breakdowns would be especially useful for tracking changes in workflow patterns over time. - Claude should warn about the overwrite — when a user runs
/insightsand a previous report exists, Claude (or the command itself) should flag that the existing report will be replaced.
Context
As a heavy user, I had a report from last month that was overwritten when running /insights again. There was no indication this would happen.
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