Renaming and resuming sessions
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Sessions have a life after you start them: they get named, and eventually they get closed. This page covers the small set of moves that manage that life.
Naming
When you create a new session from the Director's New Session dialog, the rename dialog opens - name it while you still remember why it exists. Sessions that already have a name skip the dialog: resuming a previous conversation brings its saved name back, and a named session launches under the name it was saved with. A session started by another session, or created remotely, appears in the list without any dialog. Rename any time later from the session's right-click menu. Good names carry the fleet: they are what you see on the Director, on your phone, and what Voice Mode speaks out loud.
Resuming an old conversation
Type /resume (or /continue) in the prompt bar to pick a previous Claude Code conversation in this repository and continue it.
Closing
Close a session from its right-click menu when its work is merged and done. Closing the whole Director window ends the sessions inside it. Minimise it instead when you want the work to carry on - see keeping agents running.