feat(clauderig): open a Claude Code session in Desktop - #3
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`desktop open --session <id|text>` hands a CLI session to Claude Desktop,
turning "find it with clauderig search" into "open it there".
The deep link is claude://resume?session=<uuid>. Extracted from Claude
Desktop 2.x's URL dispatcher and confirmed live against the running app:
the handler takes exactly one parameter, requires a uuid, and calls
importCliSession with it. Anything else is dropped as "missing or invalid
session" with no visible effect, so the uuid check happens here instead of
being discovered there.
It extends `desktop open` rather than adding a verb because the profile is
half the answer: Desktop partitions Code sessions by account
(claude-code-sessions/<accountUuid>/<organizationUuid>/), so which window
receives a session matters as much as which session.
What it cannot promise, and says so:
- A URL is routed by SCHEME, not per instance. With a second profile open
the OS decides which imports the session, so that case prints a warning
naming the other profile. Staying silent would make a session landing in
the wrong account look like a bug in the session.
- With NO instance running, the OS resolves claude:// by launching the
machine-wide install — the wrong profile entirely. So a just-launched
profile is waited for (WaitRunning) before the link is sent, and a
profile that never comes up is an error, not a link fired into the void.
Resolution: a uuid resolves to itself, anything else matches sidecar titles
and — for the ~97% of sessions with no sidecar — the transcript's first
prompt, the same fallback title search shows. Several matches get a picker
on a terminal and, off one, an error listing ids to re-run with; it never
picks for you. Resolution happens BEFORE any window is touched, so a
reference matching nothing costs nothing.
The transcript must be in the live ~/.claude/projects, because that is where
Desktop reads it from — checked here so it is a clear message rather than a
toast in the app.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthrough
ChangesDesktop session opening
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new session-opening path can import a session into the wrong Desktop account when multiple profiles are active, and some valid project searches can miss sessions without sidecar metadata. These bounded correctness and account-routing issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DesktopOpen
participant liveSessionIndex
participant DesktopApp
participant ClaudeDesktop
DesktopOpen->>liveSessionIndex: Resolve requested session
liveSessionIndex-->>DesktopOpen: Return session UUID
DesktopOpen->>DesktopApp: Launch or focus profile
DesktopApp-->>DesktopOpen: Report running instance
DesktopOpen->>DesktopApp: OpenURL(resume deep link)
DesktopApp->>ClaudeDesktop: Route URL through operating system
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In `@internal/clauderig/commands/desktop_session.go`:
- Around line 134-139: Update the session filtering flow to resolve cwd with
cwdFor(m, p) before the match condition, then match the query against that
resolved cwd instead of m.Cwd and reuse the same value in the appended
sessionCandidate. Add a CLI-only-session regression test covering project
matching when the sidecar’s m.Cwd is empty.
In `@internal/clauderig/commands/desktop.go`:
- Around line 380-382: The desktop deep-link flow around warnAmbiguousRouting
and app.OpenURL must refuse routing by default when another saved profile or a
profile-less default Desktop instance may receive the URL; add an --anyway
bypass, and treat st.List() errors as unsafe rather than silently allowing
delivery. Update internal/clauderig/commands/desktop.go lines 380-382
accordingly. Replace the warning-only assertions in
internal/clauderig/commands/desktop_session_test.go lines 121-145 with coverage
for default refusal, --anyway bypass, and the profile-less default-instance
case.
Apply the same fix in `@internal/clauderig/desktop/app.go` around lines 31 - 34:
This interface documents the scheme-wide routing behavior underlying the same
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| title := titleFor(m, p) | ||
| if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) && | ||
| !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(m.Cwd), needle) { | ||
| continue | ||
| } | ||
| out = append(out, sessionCandidate{ID: id, Title: title, Cwd: cwdFor(m, p), Path: p}) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Match against the resolved working directory.
A session without a sidecar has an empty m.Cwd. A query such as --session api then skips a live transcript whose cwdFor(m, p) resolves to /Users/j/Git/api. This contradicts the documented project matching behavior.
Resolve cwd := cwdFor(m, p) before the condition. Match against cwd, and use it in the appended candidate. Add a CLI-only-session regression test.
Proposed fix
for id, p := range live {
m := idx[id]
title := titleFor(m, p)
+ cwd := cwdFor(m, p)
if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) &&
- !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(m.Cwd), needle) {
+ !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(cwd), needle) {
continue
}
- out = append(out, sessionCandidate{ID: id, Title: title, Cwd: cwdFor(m, p), Path: p})
+ out = append(out, sessionCandidate{ID: id, Title: title, Cwd: cwd, Path: p})
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| title := titleFor(m, p) | |
| if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) && | |
| !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(m.Cwd), needle) { | |
| continue | |
| } | |
| out = append(out, sessionCandidate{ID: id, Title: title, Cwd: cwdFor(m, p), Path: p}) | |
| title := titleFor(m, p) | |
| cwd := cwdFor(m, p) | |
| if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) && | |
| !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(cwd), needle) { | |
| continue | |
| } | |
| out = append(out, sessionCandidate{ID: id, Title: title, Cwd: cwd, Path: p}) |
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In `@internal/clauderig/commands/desktop_session.go` around lines 134 - 139,
Update the session filtering flow to resolve cwd with cwdFor(m, p) before the
match condition, then match the query against that resolved cwd instead of m.Cwd
and reuse the same value in the appended sessionCandidate. Add a
CLI-only-session regression test covering project matching when the sidecar’s
m.Cwd is empty.
| profiles, _ := st.List() | ||
| warnAmbiguousRouting(out, app, profiles, p) | ||
| if oerr := app.OpenURL(resumeDeepLink(target.ID)); oerr != nil { |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Refuse ambiguous deep-link routing unless --anyway is set.
warnAmbiguousRouting only writes a warning before app.OpenURL, so a session can be imported into another Desktop profile while the command reports success for the requested profile. The check also needs to detect the profile-less default Desktop instance and must not treat profile-discovery errors as proof that routing is safe.
Fail closed before dispatching the URL when another profile or the default instance can receive it. Add --anyway as the explicit bypass, and cover default refusal, bypass behavior, the profile-less instance, and discovery errors.
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In `@internal/clauderig/commands/desktop.go` around lines 380 - 382, The desktop
deep-link flow around warnAmbiguousRouting and app.OpenURL must refuse routing
by default when another saved profile or a profile-less default Desktop instance
may receive the URL; add an --anyway bypass, and treat st.List() errors as
unsafe rather than silently allowing delivery. Update
internal/clauderig/commands/desktop.go lines 380-382 accordingly. Replace the
warning-only assertions in internal/clauderig/commands/desktop_session_test.go
lines 121-145 with coverage for default refusal, --anyway bypass, and the
profile-less default-instance case.
Apply the same fix in `@internal/clauderig/desktop/app.go` around lines 31 - 34:
This interface documents the scheme-wide routing behavior underlying the same
safeguard failure.
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| } | ||
| _ = st.Touch(p) | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s %s\n", OkStyle.Render("✓ opened"), p.Label()) | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s %s\n", OkStyle.Render("✓ sent to Desktop:"), target.label()) |
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Session can open in the wrong account
High Severity
desktop open --session still calls OpenURL after warnAmbiguousRouting. A claude:// link is routed by scheme, so another running profile can import the session across an account boundary while the command reports success. The check also only scans saved profiles via Running, so a profile-less default Desktop window is invisible and raises no warning at all. The warning also runs after the target is already focused or launched.
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| } | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(&b, " %s %s\n", shortID(c.ID), c.label()) | ||
| } | ||
| return sessionCandidate{}, fmt.Errorf("%s", strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n")) |
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Listed session IDs cannot be reused
High Severity
Off a terminal, several matches error with “re-run naming one of these ids” and print shortID prefixes. findSessions treats only a full UUID as an id and otherwise searches titles and sidecar cwd, so those prefixes do not resolve and the disambiguation path cannot select a session.
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| return a.ID < b.ID | ||
| } | ||
| return ai.ModTime().After(bi.ModTime()) | ||
| } |
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Recency sort ignores transcript mtimes
Medium Severity
newer compares sidecar LastActivity and only uses transcript mtime when those timestamps are equal. CLI-only sessions have a zero LastActivity, so they sort as older than any sidecar session even when their transcript is more recent, putting the wrong entry first in the picker.
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| m := idx[id] | ||
| title := titleFor(m, p) | ||
| if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) && | ||
| !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(m.Cwd), needle) { |
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Whitespace session flag matches every transcript
Low Severity
A whitespace-only --session value is non-empty, so the session path runs, then TrimSpace turns it into an empty needle. strings.Contains treats that as a match for every live transcript, so the command prompts over the whole store or reports all of them as ambiguous instead of rejecting the empty reference.
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| profiles, _ := st.List() | ||
| warnAmbiguousRouting(out, app, profiles, p) | ||
| if oerr := app.OpenURL(resumeDeepLink(target.ID)); oerr != nil { |
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When another saved profile is running, warnAmbiguousRouting only prints a warning and execution immediately continues to OpenURL. Because the deep link can be delivered to that other window, desktop open work --session ... can import the transcript into the wrong account while still reporting success; detect this before focusing or launching the target and return an error unless the user explicitly opts into ambiguous routing.
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| profiles, _ := st.List() | ||
| warnAmbiguousRouting(out, app, profiles, p) |
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The ambiguity check receives only profiles returned by st.List(), so a normal Claude Desktop instance launched without a managed --user-data-dir is never examined. If that default instance and the requested managed profile are both running, no warning is emitted and the OS may deliver the deep link to the default account; add platform-level detection for the unprofiled instance and treat it as another possible recipient.
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| title := titleFor(m, p) | ||
| if !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(title), needle) && | ||
| !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(m.Cwd), needle) { |
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For a CLI-only session with no Desktop sidecar, m.Cwd is empty, so this predicate checks only the fallback title and an empty path; cwdFor reads the transcript cwd only after the candidate has already matched. Consequently, the documented project lookup such as --session api cannot find a session recorded under /Users/j/Git/api unless its prompt also contains api; compute the fallback cwd before applying the match.
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| if sessionUUID.MatchString(ref) { | ||
| p, ok := live[ref] | ||
| if !ok { |
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The UUID validator explicitly accepts uppercase hexadecimal characters, but live is keyed by transcript filename and this map lookup is case-sensitive. When the on-disk filename uses Claude Code's normal lowercase UUID, passing an uppercase spelling of the same valid ID incorrectly reports that no session exists; normalize UUID references to the canonical case or perform a case-insensitive lookup before building the deep link.
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| fmt.Fprintf(&b, "%d sessions match %q — re-run naming one of these ids\n", len(cands), ref) | ||
| for i, c := range cands { | ||
| if i == 12 { | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(&b, " … and %d more; narrow the text to see them\n", len(cands)-i) | ||
| break | ||
| } | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(&b, " %s %s\n", shortID(c.ID), c.label()) |
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In a noninteractive ambiguous match, this error tells the user to re-run with one of the displayed IDs but prints only shortID(c.ID). findSessions recognizes only a complete UUID as an ID and otherwise searches titles and cwd, so retrying with the displayed eight-character value normally produces “no session matches”; either print the full UUID here or add unique-prefix resolution.
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| if ferr := app.Focus(p.DataDir()); ferr != nil { | ||
| return ferr | ||
| } | ||
| if sessionRef == "" { | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s %s\n", DimStyle.Render("already open:"), p.Label()) | ||
| return nil | ||
| } | ||
| fmt.Fprintf(out, "%s %s\n", DimStyle.Render("already open:"), p.Label()) |
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The running branch sends the deep link immediately, even though the newly added launch path explicitly notes that process existence does not mean Electron has registered its URL handler. If another command or the user has just started this profile, this invocation can observe its process during that startup window and send a link that is lost or handled by the machine-wide app; apply the same readiness wait or settle period before sending in this branch.
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Item 4 of the multi-account work: turn "find a session with
clauderig search" into "open it in Desktop".clauderig desktop open work --session "the auth refactor" clauderig desktop open --session 456fc32e-7579-49c7-bb2a-099657892c6aThe deep link
Extracted from Claude Desktop 2.x's URL dispatcher:
claude://resume?session=<uuid>— one parameter, must be a UUID. Confirmed live with a nonexistent id, which logged the full path without creating anything:That also proves Desktop reads the transcript from the live
~/.claude/projects— so this checks there and gives a real error instead of an in-app toast.Why it extends
desktop openrather than adding a verbThe profile is half the answer. Desktop partitions Code sessions by account (
claude-code-sessions/<accountUuid>/<organizationUuid>/), so which window receives a session matters as much as which session.The routing problem — found by running it, not by reasoning about it
The first version warned and sent anyway. Then:
The session was imported into
relatecpa. The new sidecar landed under relatecpa's accountUuid at 14:45:02, while the output named brightshore.A URL is routed by scheme, not per instance: there is no per-instance address, and the
--user-data-dirflag that separates instances is a launch argument a URL can't carry. So with two profiles up the OS chooses — and warning-then-sending is how a session crosses an account boundary while the output claims otherwise.Two later runs with both profiles open settled how unpredictable this is:
Not launch order (relatecpa was the most recently launched both times) and not focus (the target is focused before sending in both). An observed coin flip — which is why this is a refusal rather than a warning.
It now refuses by default:
--anywaysends regardless, for when any window will do — and on that path the success line no longer claims the named profile received it, because that isn't knowable. The refusal happens before any window is focused or launched, so declining costs nothing.The refusal also counts the profile-less Claude Desktop — started with no
--user-data-dir, soRunning()can never see it (it matches no dataDir). That needed a separateRunningDefault(); without it, target-profile-plus-main-app raised no objection at all. Found by running the feature and noticing the refusal named one of three live windows.The other case the OS gets wrong: with no instance running it resolves
claude://by launching the machine-wide install — the wrong profile entirely. So a just-launched profile is waited for (WaitRunning) before the link is sent.Resolution
A uuid resolves to itself. Anything else matches sidecar titles and — for the ~97% of sessions with no sidecar — the transcript's first prompt, the same fallback
searchshows. Several matches get a picker on a terminal and, off one, an error listing ids; it never picks for you. Resolution happens before any window is touched.The project shown beside each title comes from the transcript's recorded cwd, not the slug:
-Users-john-Git-tweed-worktrees-grasp-lunar-cliff-claudehas nothing marking which dashes were slashes, so slug-parsing labelled every worktree "claude".Verified
End-to-end against the real app: a valid session did import successfully (that is how the routing bug surfaced). Plus unit tests for the URL shape, uuid-needs-a-live-transcript, title/first-prompt matching, ambiguity off a terminal, the no-match message, and the routing refusal.
Full suite and
go vetgreen.Note for the maintainer
Testing left one real session (
051bc295…, "update the runner on winbox") imported into the relatecpa Desktop profile. Delete it from that profile's Code tab if you don't want it there.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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desktop opento resolve Claude Code sessions by UUID, title, or project and open them through Claude Desktop deep links. Add live transcript lookup, ambiguity handling, profile-routing safeguards, platform URL dispatch, and supporting tests.Modified files (12)
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desktop open --sessionto find live Claude Code transcripts, match titles or prompts, disambiguate results, and send the selected UUID through aclaude://resumedeep link.Modified files (6)
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Medium Risk
Behavior depends on OS deep-link routing and multi-profile Desktop instances, so sessions can land in the wrong account despite focus/wait logic; filesystem reads of live transcripts and launching Desktop add operational edge cases but no auth/data-store changes.
Overview
clauderig desktop opengains a--sessionflag so you can resume a Claude Code session in the chosen Desktop profile. The reference can be a session UUID or free text matched against sidecar titles, project/cwd, and (when there is no sidecar) the transcript’s first prompt—only sessions with a live transcript under~/.claude/projectsqualify; resolution runs before any window is launched or focused.When
--sessionis set, the command focuses or launches the target profile, waits for that profile’s instance (plus a short settle) soclaude://does not start the default install, then sendsclaude://resume?session=<uuid>through newApp.OpenURLimplementations (macOSopen, Windowscmd /c start). If other profiles are also running, it warns that deep links are routed by scheme, not per window.New helpers in
desktop_session.gocover live transcript indexing,liveSessionIndex(config desktop root + every profile data dir), disambiguation (interactive picker vs non-interactive ID list), and unit tests for URL shape, matching, and routing warnings.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 15e3dc3. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.
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desktop open --sessionto open or focus Claude Desktop directly to a session.