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All time, since Sep 15, including 1 thumbs-up on GitHub.

Programmatic session rename

“The existing /rename command is cosmetic (#26249 — can't --resume by name), and there's no way for a session to set its own display name programmatically.”

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Let sessions rename themselves programmatically instead of only via /rename. Reporters say /rename only works when the user invokes it, so Claude, CLAUDE.md, agent prompts or hooks cannot set a session's display name.

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Session naming
Platforms
macOS

Original reports2, newest first

  1. Feature: Programmatic session self-rename for multi-session orchestration#105550
  2. Feature Request: Allow Claude/agents to programmatically rename sessions#94528

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