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Claude Code v2.1.232

Sessions on the same machine no longer share a name

You'll notice
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Sessions

Same-machine name clashes are resolved at startup, on rename and on recheck; the flag defaults on.

Feature flag
tengu_session_name_uniqueness Off in both readings

The flag server returned off for the account this site reads and for the anonymous baseline. A reading of off cannot rule out a rollout these two readings sit outside of.

This account: off · anonymous baseline: off · compiled default in v2.1.232: off

These values were read against a different version of Claude Code, so treat them as the nearest reading available instead of one taken on this release.

Read once, for one account on one subscription tier, against v2.1.232. It isn't a statement about your account. What a flag value here can and cannot tell you

What

If another live session on your machine already uses the same session name, the newer session yields and takes a suffixed name instead. The check runs at startup, on rename, and again on a delayed recheck. The remote-config flag tengu_session_name_uniqueness controls it and its built-in fallback is on, so without a server value this is active.

Details
  • The yielding session logs the change under [session-name] at info level.
  • Other sessions it talks to are notified over the local cross-session messaging channel with a message telling them to use the new name.
  • Any failure during the check is non-fatal: the session keeps its original name.
Evidence

tengu_session_name_uniqueness

Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.

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