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134134Click the **Session history** button at the top of the Claude Code panel to access your conversation history. You can search by keyword or browse by time. Click any conversation to resume it with the full message history. For more on resuming sessions, see [Manage sessions](/docs/en/sessions).
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136New sessions receive AI-generated titles based on your first message. Hover over a session to reveal rename and archive actions: rename to give it a descriptive title, or archive to move it to the **Archived sessions** group at the bottom of the list.
136* **Session titles**: new sessions receive AI-generated titles based on your first message.
137* **Rename and archive**: hover over a session to reveal these actions. Rename to give it a descriptive title, or archive to move it to the **Archived sessions** group at the bottom of the list.
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139By default, a session with no activity for 14 days moves to **Archived sessions** automatically, unless it is open, unread, or in a [group](#organize-sessions-into-groups). Automatic archiving requires Claude Code v2.1.265 or later. To change the period or turn it off, open the [Archive Inactive Sessions setting](vscode://settings/claudeCode.archiveInactiveSessions) and select a number of days or **Never**.
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138141To restore an archived session, expand **Archived sessions** and click **Unarchive session**. Before v2.1.257, the action was **Delete session**, which hid a session with no way to restore it. Sessions you deleted then appear under **Archived sessions** after you upgrade.
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140143When the conversation you resume ended in plan mode, Claude Code restores plan mode. Requires Claude Code v2.1.246 or later. Claude Code doesn't restore it in two cases:
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167170### Check account and usage
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169Run `/usage` to open the Account & usage dialog. The dialog requires a claude.ai sign-in, so it isn't offered on a [third-party provider](#use-third-party-providers). It shows your signed-in account, your plan, and usage bars for the current session and the week. Each bar shows how long until its limit resets.
172Run `/usage` to open the Account & usage dialog. The dialog requires a claude.ai sign-in, so it isn't offered on a [third-party provider](#use-third-party-providers). It shows your signed-in account, your plan, and usage bars for your plan's limits, such as the current session and the week. Each bar shows how long until its limit resets.
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171174The dialog also breaks down what is contributing to your plan limits. It flags behaviors that account for 10% or more of recent usage, such as cache misses, long context, and subagent-heavy or highly parallel sessions, each with a tip to reduce it. Attribution tables show how much usage came from each skill, subagent, plugin, and MCP server. Requires Claude Code v2.1.174 or later.
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188191 Use the sidebar for your main Claude session and open additional tabs for side tasks. Claude remembers your preferred location. The Activity Bar sessions list icon is separate from the Claude panel: the sessions list is always visible in the Activity Bar, while the Claude panel icon only appears there when the panel is docked to the left sidebar.
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194After you run **Developer: Reload Window** or restart VS Code, whether a chat comes back with its conversation depends on where it was open:
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196* **Editor tab**: the conversation comes back with its tab.
197* **Sidebar**: the conversation comes back if you sent a message or Claude responded in it within the last 10 minutes. If it doesn't come back, resume the conversation from [Session history](#resume-past-conversations).
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191199### Run multiple conversations
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193201Use **Open in New Tab** or **Open in New Window** from the Command Palette to start additional conversations. Each conversation maintains its own history and context, allowing you to work on different tasks in parallel.
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366374| `useCtrlEnterToSend` | `false` | Use Ctrl/Cmd+Enter instead of Enter to send prompts |
367375| `enableNewConversationShortcut` | `false` | Enable Cmd/Ctrl+N to start a new conversation |
368376| `enableReopenClosedSessionShortcut` | `true` | Use Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the most recently closed Claude session tab. When the last closed tab wasn't a Claude session, the shortcut runs VS Code's normal reopen-closed-editor command instead. |
377| `archiveInactiveSessions` | `14` | [Archive a session automatically](#resume-past-conversations) after this many days without activity: `1`, `2`, `7`, or `14`. Set `0` to turn it off. Requires Claude Code v2.1.265 or later |
369378| `hideOnboarding` | `false` | Hide the onboarding checklist (graduation cap icon) |
370379| `focusView` | `false` | Hide tool calls, tool results, and thinking behind expandable rows, leaving your prompts and Claude's responses. Claude's latest to-do list stays visible; this requires Claude Code v2.1.225 or later. You can also toggle Focus view from the command menu. Requires Claude Code v2.1.221 or later |
371380| `respectGitIgnore` | `true` | Exclude .gitignore patterns from file searches |
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