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118118Claude addresses a session beyond this machine by name, the same as a local session. See [Message sessions on other machines](#message-sessions-on-other-machines) for how those messages travel.
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120A session answers to the name you set with the [`/rename`](/docs/en/commands) command or the [`--name`](/docs/en/cli-reference#cli-flags) flag. When you don't set one, Claude Code names the session itself. For an interactive session, Claude Code derives the name from the working directory's folder name, such as `my-app-3f` in a `my-app` directory.
120A session answers to the name you set with the [`/rename`](/docs/en/commands) command or the [`--name`](/docs/en/cli-reference#cli-flags) flag. When you don't set one, Claude Code names the session itself. For an interactive session, that is the name shown in [listings of running sessions](/docs/en/sessions#name-your-sessions).
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122122When you rename a session, or start or resume an interactive one, with a name another live session on this machine already uses, Claude Code leaves the name with the session that already has it and [renames yours to a variant](/docs/en/sessions#name-your-sessions). Sessions can still share a name, for example when one of them runs an earlier version of Claude Code or the shared name is one Claude Code generated. Claude Code shows each local session's working directory in the `/list-agents` output, so you can tell same-named sessions apart when they run in different directories. Claude addresses the message in one of two ways, depending on how many live sessions answer to the name:
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