What
Trying to reopen a background session whose transcript has already been deleted now gives a specific message pointing you at claude rm and claude respawn, instead of the old generic wake failure. A separate message, "Can't open — this session is running in another terminal", covers the case where another interactive session holds it.
Details
- Respawn refuses such rows with
errorCode: "dead_epoch_transcript_gone". - Both the attach CLI and the fleet view branch on that code, print the message and exit 1.
- Telemetry records
cli_bg_attachandfleet_view_openwith reasondead_epoch_transcript_gone. - Unconditional in this build.
Evidence
dead_epoch_transcript_gone
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
Names in the bundleclaude attachclaude rmclaude respawn
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 since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude respawn, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
| `claude respawn <id>` | Restart a session, running or stopped, e.g. to pick up an updated Claude Code binary. The restarted session resumes its saved conversation; when none is on disk, it runs its original prompt again as a new conversa…agent-view see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude attach, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
| `claude attach <id>` | Attach to a session in this terminal |agent-view see the edit
Confirmed since
Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude rm, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
* Delete the session again to remove the directory anyway, by pressing `Ctrl+X` twice on its row in agent view or running the `claude rm <id> --force-remove-worktree <worktree-id>` command that the `claude rm` refusal printed. Claude Code …agent-view see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation agrees
Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude rm, on Manage multiple agents with agent view.
Anthropic's release notes agree
Fixed claude agents and claude rm refusing to delete a session ("has commits that are not pushed anywhere") when its worktree branch was…