What probably matters to youSection of the release
What
The help text for remote control now says -c/--continue reattaches to the session last recorded for the current directory or one of its git worktrees, and errors if nothing was recorded in roughly the last 4 hours. --session-id is likewise described as reattaching.
Details
Wording change only; the 4 hour window is now stated where before it was not.
Evidence
Reattach to a specific session by ID (cannot be
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
The entry above is what we published on the day. These lines were added later, as Anthropic's own pages caught up, and they sit beside the original rather than replacing it.
Confirmed sinceAnthropic's documentation has since written up --continue, on Claude Code changelog.* Improved `--continue` / `--resume`: the conversation appears immediately instead of waiting for SessionStart hooks, and the first message no longer re-reads the whole transcriptchangelogsee the edit
How sure we are
Two sources agreeTwo things we can check say the same as this entry.
Anthropic's documentation agreesAnthropic's documentation has since written up --continue, on Claude Code changelog.
Anthropic's release notes agreeDocumented claude remote-control --continue for resuming the most recent Remote Control session
