What is Captured

Workstate is designed to capture the “intelligence” of your environment without bloating your backups with binaries or temporary files.

Tracked Files

By default, Workstate looks for:

• Environment Variables: .env, .env.local, .env.development.
• Shell Configs: .zshrc, .bashrc, .profile (partially or via specific exports).
• Tool Configs: .nvmrc, package.json (for version tracking), pyproject.toml, .python-version.
• Infrastructure: Dockerfile, docker-compose.yml, Terraform files (.tf).

What is NOT Captured

To keep backups lean and secure, we exclude:

• node_modules/
• .git/ (we track the state, not the whole history)
• __pycache__/
• Large binary files (> 50MB by default)
• OS-specific temp files (.DS_Store, Thumbs.db)

Customization

You can customize what is captured using the .workstateignore file in your root directory, which follows the same syntax as .gitignore.