¬ just serendipity 🍀 (not just serendipity)

Previously.

Problem statement: claude --resume accepts a session ID (UUID), but UUIDs are not human-friendly.

% claude --resume 92884e7a-422a-4e2a-9fbc-dc0a2e85380b

I can’t remember that at all, and even copy-and-paste is error-prone in this context (e.g. missing the first or last character in the UUID).

There are a few ways to turn this into a nicer developer experience.

Start a session with a name:

% claude --name "golden-ami-deploy-servers"

Realistically, though, that’s hard to remember. Also, oftentimes you’ll start a session without knowing upfront what you’ll work on.

Rename mid-session with /rename:

/rename golden-ami-deploy-servers

Better! The name can be adjusted on-the-fly. It resembles tmux in this aspect.

Or: just /rename with no argument will auto-generate a name from the conversation history. Fancy. That will burn a few more tokens though.

And now, back to the original problem:

Resume by name:

% claude --resume "golden-ami-deploy-servers"

The interactive picker (claude --resume with no argument) also displays session names, making it easy to find what you’re looking for.

You can also invoke /resume mid-session.