Resume Previous Conversations with --resume

Closed your terminal mid-task? Use --resume to continue your last session:

claude --resume          # Resume most recent conversation
claude --continue        # Same thing, shorter alias

When to Use It

• You closed the terminal by accident
• Your laptop went to sleep during a long task
• You want to continue yesterday’s work with full context
• You ran /clear too early and want the old session back

Interactive Session Picker

claude --resume          # Opens a picker if multiple recent sessions exist

Claude restores the full conversation history, so it remembers what files it read, what changes it made, and what the plan was.

Pro Tip

Before ending a session, tell Claude to summarize what’s been done and what’s left. That way when you resume, the summary is right there at the end of context.