claude-code - 💡(How to fix) Fix Feature request: list/resume Claude Code sessions across all project directories [1 participants]

Problem

claude --resume and claude --continue only operate on sessions in the current working directory. There's no built-in way to see or resume sessions across all projects on a machine.

If I don't remember which directory I was in when a conversation happened, my only options today are:

• cd around guessing, running claude --resume in each candidate, or
• write a custom script that walks ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl, reads each file's ai-title entry, and reconstructs the original project path from the encoded directory name (which is lossy when paths contain hyphens).

Proposal

A built-in command or flag for a global session picker, e.g.:

claude --resume --all # picker across every project dir claude sessions list # non-interactive listing claude sessions list --json # for scripting

Each entry should show the same info as today's per-dir picker (AI title, last-modified time, message count) plus the originating project directory.

Why

• Easy to lose track of which dir a useful conversation lived in.
• The session data is already on disk and already has AI-generated titles — the picker UI just needs to look beyond cwd.
• The lossy / → - encoding of project paths makes a reliable user-space workaround impossible without also storing/reading the real cwd from inside the JSONL.

Environment

• claude-code CLI, Linux