Display session ID in terminal tab title

[hmcg001]

Feature Request

When running multiple Claude Code sessions simultaneously, there's no way to identify which session is which from the terminal tab.

Problem:

• Power users often have 4+ Claude Code sessions open at once
• Each session is a UUID (e.g., 2f1b3084-b39d-4923-8731-0f37048e533b)
• Terminal tabs all show the same title — you have to guess which is which
• The only way to identify sessions is to dig through ~/.claude/projects/ and inspect JSONL files

Proposed Solution:
Display the session ID (or a short hash of it) in the terminal tab title. For example:

• Claude Code [2f1b] or Claude Code #2f1b3084
• Even better: allow users to name sessions, shown in the tab title

Why this matters:

• Users managing complex projects across multiple sessions need to quickly switch between them
• Session IDs are already tracked internally — just surface them in the tab title
• Would pair well with session resume workflows

Environment:

• macOS Terminal / iTerm2 / VS Code terminal
• Claude Code CLI (Opus 4.6)

[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. Include session name in terminal tab title after /rename #23998
2. [FEATURE] Terminal window title settings #7229
3. [Feature Request] Add configuration option to control terminal title behavior #23355

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[hmcg001]

Additional context: Session names set via /rename are lost on crash or unexpected termination. When sessions need to be restarted, there's no way to tell them apart again — you're back to raw UUIDs.

Session names should be persisted to disk (e.g., in the session JSONL or a separate index) so they survive crashes and restarts. This would make /resume useful even after a bad day, and make the tab title feature above actually reliable.

[hmcg001]

To put it plainly: this is a real pain point. When you're running 4+ parallel sessions on a complex project, they all crash, and you restart to find all your /rename labels gone and nothing but indistinguishable UUIDs — it's incredibly frustrating. This needs to be addressed. Session identity should be a first-class, persistent concept.

[github-actions]

Closing for now — inactive for too long. Please open a new issue if this is still relevant.