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224224 <Step title="Select a session to resume">
225 Browse or search your cloud sessions. Click any session to download it and continue the conversation locally.
225 Browse or search the sessions. Click one to continue the conversation locally.
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229229<Note>
230 Only cloud sessions started with a GitHub repository appear in the Web tab. Resuming loads the conversation history locally; changes are not synced back to claude.ai.
230 When the folder you have open is a GitHub repository, the Web tab shows only sessions from that repository.
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232 When you resume a cloud session, the extension downloads a copy of the conversation history; changes don't sync back to claude.ai.
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235The Web tab also lists your [Remote Control](/docs/en/remote-control) sessions. If you click one that ran in the folder you have open, the extension opens that local conversation instead of downloading a copy, and focuses the tab already showing it if there is one. If the extension can't rule out that another Claude process has the conversation open, you get a downloaded copy instead.
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237If any part of a conversation fails to download, an error appears and no copy is saved. Select the session again to retry. If you select a session that has no conversation to download yet, an error tells you where to continue it instead.
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233239### Check account and usage
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235241Run `/usage` to open the Account & usage dialog. It shows your signed-in account, and the usage it reports differs by sign-in:
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643649The server is named `ide` and is hidden from `/mcp` because there's nothing to configure. If your organization uses a `PreToolUse` hook to allowlist MCP tools, though, you'll need to know it exists.
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645651**Selection and open-file context.** While connected, the CLI includes your current editor selection and the path of the active file as context on each prompt you send. The transcript shows a `⧉ Selected N lines from <file>` line when this happens.
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653If you [queue a message while Claude works](/docs/en/interactive-mode#queue-messages-while-claude-works), it keeps the selection you had when you pressed `Enter`, whatever you select afterward.
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647655To exclude a sensitive file such as `.env`, add a [`Read` deny rule](/docs/en/permissions#read-and-edit) for its path. A matching deny rule prevents both the selected text and the open-file notice for that file from reaching Claude.
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