diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 451235fa7c..1bc9777350 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -755,13 +755,22 @@ dependencies = [
  "subtle",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "directories"
+version = "5.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9a49173b84e034382284f27f1af4dcbbd231ffa358c0fe316541a7337f376a35"
+dependencies = [
+ "dirs-sys 0.4.1",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "dirs"
 version = "4.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ca3aa72a6f96ea37bbc5aa912f6788242832f75369bdfdadcb0e38423f100059"
 dependencies = [
- "dirs-sys",
+ "dirs-sys 0.3.7",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -775,6 +784,18 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "dirs-sys"
+version = "0.4.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "520f05a5cbd335fae5a99ff7a6ab8627577660ee5cfd6a94a6a929b52ff0321c"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "option-ext",
+ "redox_users",
+ "windows-sys 0.48.0",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "doc-comment"
 version = "0.3.3"
@@ -1741,6 +1762,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "vcpkg",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "option-ext"
+version = "0.2.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "04744f49eae99ab78e0d5c0b603ab218f515ea8cfe5a456d7629ad883a3b6e7d"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "overload"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -2502,6 +2529,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap_complete",
  "crate-git-revision 0.0.4",
  "csv",
+ "directories",
  "dirs",
  "dotenvy",
  "ed25519-dalek 2.0.0",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c88cd4abc7..625e34f95b 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = "0.3.16"
 tracing-appender = "0.2.2"
 which = "4.4.0"
 wasmparser = "0.90.0"
+directories = "5.0.1"
 
 
 # [patch."https://github.com/stellar/rs-soroban-env"]
diff --git a/cmd/soroban-cli/Cargo.toml b/cmd/soroban-cli/Cargo.toml
index ad60c827ac..a48b7dc344 100644
--- a/cmd/soroban-cli/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cmd/soroban-cli/Cargo.toml
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter"] }
 cargo_metadata = "0.15.4"
 pathdiff = "0.2.1"
 dotenvy = "0.15.7"
+directories = { workspace = true }
 # For hyper-tls
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 openssl = { version = "0.10.55", features = ["vendored"] }
diff --git a/cmd/soroban-cli/src/commands/config/data.rs b/cmd/soroban-cli/src/commands/config/data.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1882505b6e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/soroban-cli/src/commands/config/data.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+use chrono::prelude::*;
+use directories::ProjectDirs;
+
+#[derive(thiserror::Error, Debug)]
+pub enum Error {
+    #[error("Failed to find project directories")]
+    FiledToFindProjectDirs,
+    #[error(transparent)]
+    Io(#[from] std::io::Error),
+}
+
+pub fn project_dir() -> Result<directories::ProjectDirs, Error> {
+    ProjectDirs::from("com", "stellar", "soroban-cli").ok_or(Error::FiledToFindProjectDirs)
+}
+
+pub fn write(prefix: &str, suffix: &str, data: impl AsRef<[u8]>) -> Result<(), Error> {
+    let timestamp = Utc::now().format("%Y%m%d_%H%M%S");
+    let name = format!("{prefix}_{timestamp}{suffix}");
+    let file = project_dir()?.data_local_dir().join(name);
+    Ok(std::fs::write(file, data)?)
+}