Feature Request: Add Conversation Naming/Renaming Capability #2838

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2. sygi commented on Jul 14, 2025

   

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   Related to this, it'd be great if claude knew the id/summary/anything about the currently-running session
3. shorea commented on Jul 30, 2025

   

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   Would love this feature. To add to it, consider also exposing session names/summaries via some kind of --list-sessions/--list-conversations options. Being able to access this data via the CLI opens up some very powerful integrations with the shell like using fzf to fuzzy search sessions and quickly jump back to the project/conversation you want.
4. shorea commented on Jul 31, 2025

   

   shorea

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   If anyone is interested I've implemented a poor mans solution of this by leveraging their explicit session ID feature and writing custom names to a file. Using fzf you can fuzzy search by session name for the current project/directory (ccr) or all projects/directories (ccra). ccn allows you to create a new session with a custom name

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   SESSION_FILE="$HOME/.claude_sessions.csv"
   # Core function that handles fzf selection
   function _cc_select_session() {
     local input="$1"  # full CSV lines
     local prompt="$2"
   
     echo "$input" | awk -F, '{printf "%s\t%s,%s,%s\n", $2, $1, $2, $3}' | \
       fzf \
         --with-nth=1 \
         --delimiter=$'\t' \
         --preview='awk -F, "{print \"ID: \" \$1 \"\nName: \" \$2 \"\nCWD: \" \$3}" <<< {}' \
         --prompt="$prompt"
   }
   
   # Create new session
   function ccn() {
     local session_name="$*"
     if [[ -z "$session_name" ]]; then
       echo "Usage: ccn <session_name>"
       return 1
     fi
   
     local session_id
     session_id=$(uuidgen)
     local cwd
     cwd=$(pwd)
   
     echo "${session_id},${session_name},${cwd}" >> "$SESSION_FILE"
   
     claude --ide --session-id "$session_id"
   }
   
   # Resume session from current directory
   function ccr() {
     local cwd
     cwd=$(pwd)
   
     if [[ ! -f "$SESSION_FILE" ]]; then
       echo "No session file found at $SESSION_FILE"
       return 1
     fi
   
     local filtered
     filtered=$(grep ",${cwd}$" "$SESSION_FILE")
   
     if [[ -z "$filtered" ]]; then
       echo "No sessions found for this directory."
       return 1
     fi
   
     local selected
     selected=$(_cc_select_session "$filtered" "Session (cwd only)> ")
   
     if [[ -z "$selected" ]]; then
       echo "No session selected."
       return 1
     fi
   
     local session_id
     session_id=$(echo "$selected" | cut -f2 | cut -d',' -f1)
   
     claude --resume "$session_id"
   }
   
   # Resume session from all directories
   function ccra() {
     if [[ ! -f "$SESSION_FILE" ]]; then
       echo "No session file found at $SESSION_FILE"
       return 1
     fi
   
     local selected
     selected=$(_cc_select_session "$(cat "$SESSION_FILE")" "Search all sessions> ")
   
     if [[ -z "$selected" ]]; then
       echo "No session selected."
       return 1
     fi
   
     local session_id
     session_id=$(echo "$selected" | cut -f2 | cut -d',' -f1)
   
     claude --resume "$session_id"
   }
   
5. vlsi commented on Aug 7, 2025

   

   vlsi

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   It would be great if the agent could update the conversation title as well. For instance, the instruction could be Rename the conversation to "Review $ticketId for project $projectName ..."
6. github-actions commented on Aug 16, 2025

   

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   Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

   1. [Feature Request] Add --session-name and /session-name for custom session identification #2112
   2. Session Naming Feature Request: Add Persistent Named Session Support #3975
   3. [BUG] NEed an ability to rename the claude code sessions #3605

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   This issue has been automatically closed as a duplicate of #2112.

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