claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix [FEATURE] Allow users to assign a human-readable name to a Claude Code session and resume by that name instead of a UUID. [1 participants]

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Problem Statement

Problem

--resume requires a full UUID, which is hard to remember and not ergonomic for workflows where you maintain long-running sessions tied to specific projects or tasks (e.g. fixing bugs, an audit, a refactor branch, an incident investigation):

claude --resume 250e3400-e39b-31d4-a736-442655430000

There is no way to give a session a human-readable name.

Proposed Solution

Proposed Solution

Allow users to name a session at start and resume by name:

# Start a named session
claude --session-name webbugs

# Resume by name instead of UUID
claude --resume webbugs

--list-sessions should display names alongside UUIDs. If a name is reused, --resume resolves to the most recent session with that name.

Alternative Solutions

Alternative Solutions

Priority

Critical - Blocking my work

Feature Category

CLI commands and flags

Use Case Example

I maintain several long-running sessions for distinct workstreams — bug triage, refactor branches, incident investigations. Today the only workaround is a shell alias:

  alias webbugs='claude --resume 250e3400-e39b-31d4-a736-442655430000'

This breaks if the session is garbage-collected and requires manually looking up the UUID via --list-sessions each time. Named sessions would eliminate this friction entirely.

Additional Context

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