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claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix /branch fails with 'No conversation to branch' in all session types

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Error Message

Always fails with the error above regardless of session type or conversation length. This was encountered during a long multi-hour background session with extensive tool use and conversation history. The conversation clearly exists (hundreds of turns), so the error message is incorrect.

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Bug

/branch command fails with Failed to branch conversation: No conversation to branch in both background job sessions and what appears to be any session context.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Start a Claude Code session (background job or interactive)
  2. Have a conversation with multiple turns
  3. Run /branch
  4. Get: Failed to branch conversation: No conversation to branch

Expected behavior

/branch should fork the current conversation into a new session with the existing context preserved.

Actual behavior

Always fails with the error above regardless of session type or conversation length.

Environment

  • Claude Code CLI (background job session)
  • macOS Darwin 25.4.0
  • Model: claude-opus-4-6 (1M context)

Notes

This was encountered during a long multi-hour background session with extensive tool use and conversation history. The conversation clearly exists (hundreds of turns), so the error message is incorrect.

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Expected behavior

/branch should fork the current conversation into a new session with the existing context preserved.

#ssr#conversation history#memory leak#API versioning#request timeout

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