You'll notice
claude -p --continue now says a matching session is running in the background instead of silently finding nothing.
When claude -p --continue finds no eligible session to resume but a matching session is currently running in the background, the CLI now emits a specific abort message instead of silently falling through. This case also logs a tengu_continue failure event.
Names in the bundleclaude -p --continue
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.
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude -p --continue, on CLI reference.
| `--continue`, `-c` | Load the most recent conversation in the current directory, including a [background session that has finished](/docs/en/sessions#resume-a-session); opening finished background sessions requires Claude Code v2.1.257 o…cli-reference see the edit
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Anthropic's documentation has since written up claude -p --continue, on CLI reference.
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Fixed --resume listing a backgrounded conversation twice and --continue reopening its stalled pre-background copy; --continue now also opens…