{"version":"2.1.234","anchor":"restarting-claude-code-hands-the-conversation-over-explicitl","canonical_anchor":"restarting-claude-code-hands-the-conversation-over-explicitl","heading":"Restarting Claude Code hands the conversation over explicitly, and reports failure","tier":"notice","area":"Session Handoff","scope":null,"heads_up":null,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234\/e\/restarting-claude-code-hands-the-conversation-over-explicitl","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.234","markdown":"### Restarting Claude Code hands the conversation over explicitly, and reports failure\n\nRestarting via \/update or \/tui now carries your conversation over explicitly and says so if the restart fails.\n\n**What**\n\n`\/update`, `\/tui` and the handoff to the desktop app now snapshot the conversation under a named handoff before restarting, so the transcript is carried across rather than picked up by chance. A restart that fails now says so inline instead of leaving the session in limbo.\n\n**Details**\n\n- Handoffs are named \"relaunch\" and \"desktop_handoff\", and the storage handle is passed into the relaunch.\n- The message on failure begins \"Couldn't restart Claude Code \u2014 \".\n- The plain-file half of this is active for everyone on this build; the storage-backed half only runs when the `tengu_hover_rest` flag is on, which it is not by default here.\n\n**Evidence**\n\n`Couldn't restart Claude Code \u2014 `\n\n- Flag `tengu_hover_rest`: Off in both readings (read for one account on one subscription tier against v2.1.234; this account: off, anonymous baseline: off, compiled default: off)\n- Area: Session Handoff\n- Names: `\/update`, `\/tui`\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 4\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5"}