Naming a session in Claude CLI

I moved to Claude CLI lately as oppose to using a plugin within my editor as I am serial tinkerer when it comes to IDE’s and trying to configure the plugins each time is painful. Using the CLI is a no brainer as it is IDE agnostic. I wish I had switched earlier, I have no good reason for why I did not use it in the first instance.

Anyway, I noticed that when I listed previous sessions with /resume a lot of them had the same title making it difficult to find the session I was looking for without searching sessions with a particular string, for example.

/rename command

It turns out there is a built-in /rename command, that gives your current session a name. And it also turns out you can rename your sessions retrospectively, which is nice.

Workflow

Thus, a simple workflow to start a new session and give it a name.

/clear
/rename my-session-name