Sessions & tabs

A session is one conversation with Claude in one folder. Sessions run in the daemon, so they keep going when you close the browser.

How to start a session

1. Click New session (or press Ctrl+Shift+S).
2. Pick the project, model, mode and effort in the prompt box.
3. Type your prompt and press Enter.

To start in a specific project, use the + on that project's row in the sidebar.

How to find a session

• Type in Search sessions at the top of the sidebar. It matches title, project and branch.
• Add @project=my-app to search one project only.
• To search inside messages, open the command palette (Ctrl+K) and type.
• Type /resume in the prompt box to search the sessions of the current project.

Session menu

Hover a session row and click ⋯:

Item	Does
Rename	Changes the title.
Archive / Unarchive	Hides the session from the list without deleting it.
Delete…	Deletes the session and its history for good (asks first).

Tabs

Each open session is a tab at the top. Tabs are grouped by project, like Chrome tab groups.

To	Do
Switch tab	Click it, or Alt+1…8 (⌃ 1…8 on Mac). Alt+9 goes to the last tab.
Close a tab	Its ×, or Ctrl+Alt+W
Close a whole group	Middle-click the group chip
Reorder	Drag a tab or a group chip

More tab keys (reopen a closed tab, close a group): Keyboard shortcuts.

On a phone, tap the tab switcher to see all tabs. Swipe a row left to close it. Swipe up or down on the switcher to go to the previous or next tab.

Good to know

• /clear (or /reset, /new) starts a fresh session in the same tab and keeps what you typed.
• Idle close: a session that no tab shows closes its Claude process after 10 minutes idle. It stays in the list. The next prompt resumes it. Change the time with CLAUDE_UI_IDLE_CLOSE_MINUTES.
• Change how tabs group (by project, by worktree, or none) and turn on Compact tabs in Settings › Tabs.
• Sidebar grouping Worktree and Project (also in the sidebar options menu), and "Show only active sessions", are in Settings › Sidebar.