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/desktop

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A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.

Continue the current session in the Claude Code Desktop app. Requires macOS or x64 Windows and a Claude subscription. Alias: /app

Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-09-28.

First seen — never in a mined build
Last seen — never in a mined build
Builds0 / 150on this box, as of v2.1.309
Written about v2.1.42 first named in a changelog, 13 Feb 2026

In the changelogs

7

Releases whose published page names /desktop.

  1. v2.1.285
    Handing a session to the desktop app now says why it failed

    When /desktop cannot hand off, Claude Code now reports whether the app is missing, outdated or would not open

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  2. v2.1.281
    /desktop dialog: Escape and Ctrl-C/D no longer cancel directly

    In the /desktop prompt, Escape and Ctrl-C/D no longer cancel directly; only Meta+C/D does

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  3. v2.1.281
    Claude Desktop handoff dialogs restyled

    The /desktop error and download screens now appear in a dialog titled "Claude Desktop" with an Esc-to-cancel hint

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  4. v2.1.275
    Improved /desktop failure messages

    /desktop now gives clearer error messages when it can't open Claude Desktop

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  5. v2.1.271
    New upsell tip promotes Claude Code Desktop's iOS Simulator pane

    New startup tip promotes testing apps in an iOS Simulator via Claude Code Desktop

    found in this entry's text, named in this entry

  6. v2.1.223
    /desktop handoff gains a remote-session guard

    Handing your session off to the desktop app now also refuses remote sessions, but the command is inert anyway.

    named in this entry, found in this entry's text

  7. v2.1.42
    /desktop Command

    found in this entry's text

First cited

1

The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /desktop was v2.1.275, 17 Sep 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.

ReleaseDateThe span that was quoted
v2.1.27517 Sep 2026Couldn't open Claude Desktop (${n.detail}). Open Claude Desktop and run /desktop again.

Presence across releases

0

The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.

Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.

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