Where on the filesystem is it trying to create the sqlite database?

I'm continuing to get this also. I'm using just the nodejs provided by homebrew.

I noticed that whenever Claude code auto-updates, it's wiping out whatever existing dependency cache was there.

Workaround for me is now:

cd /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/node_modules/better-sqlite3
npm run build-release

And that fixes it. Having to do it every auto-update by Claude is very annoying though.

Related issues: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aclosed%20sqlite

Got the same issue as @ianchesal on linux, having both claude and better-sqlite3 installed globally. Verified that sqlite works in the project dir, and claude says npm permissions are OK. But the warning persists and I also think it a read/write permission issue but not sure howto fix it.

This warning suddenly popped up after the latest auto-update it seems.

Ahh well. If it's happening outside of a container for @abraithwaite and @askibinski maybe it's an actual bug and not me being paranoid and jailing stuff in a container?

My container setup for repro is here: https://github.com/ianchesal/agent-containers/tree/main/claude-code

Workaround for me is now: `` cd /opt/homebrew/lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/node_modules/better-sqlite3 npm run build-release `` And that fixes it.

This doesn't help for me. The module builds correctly inside my container, but I still get the DB missing error when starting claude.

I appreciate the tip though!

happy to help with this @ianchesal
the db is currently stored in ~/.claude/__store.db and this location and not configurable
for the next release I can update this so it respects $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR

As of 0.2.103 the __store.db file containing the database will respect the $CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR setting

@wolffiex thank you! That was exactly what I needed to fix my problem. Mounting ~/.claude in to my container rw stopped the database error from occurring.

Any chance, with ~/.claude growing in use, that you'll re-home ~/.claude.json to ~/.claude/claude.json so the configuration file, the global rule file ~/.claude/CLAUUDE.md and all the other generated files are all in one sub-directory?

For the curious, my launch call for my container is now:

function __ai_container_launcher() {
  if type podman >/dev/null; then
    LAUNCHER="podman run --userns=keep-id"
  else
    LAUNCHER="docker run"
  fi
  echo $LAUNCHER
}

function claude() {
  eval "$(__ai_container_launcher) --tty --interactive -v ${HOME}/.config/claude/claude.json:/home/codeuser/.claude.json:rw \
    -v ${HOME}/.config/claude:/home/codeuser/.claude:rw \
    -v $(pwd):/app:rw \
    claude-code $@"
}

Yes, we are headed in the direction of having everything inside ~/.claude Glad this helped!

Amazing. As a (very) long time vim user, working with Claude at the command line has been the best way to add AI to my coding workflow yet.

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