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Your task

Name the current session so it appears in the statusline and is saved for future reference.

The argument provided is: {{ args }}

Steps

1. Get the session name — use the argument if provided, otherwise ask the user with AskUserQuestion: "What name do you want to give this session?"

2. Find the current session ID — run:

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   ls -t ~/.claude/projects/*/*.jsonl 2>/dev/null | head -1 | xargs basename | sed 's/\.jsonl$//'
   

3. Save the session name:

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   mkdir -p ~/.claude/session_notes
   echo "<name>" | tee ~/.claude/session_notes/<session_id>
   

4. Confirm — tell the user the session is named and will appear in the statusline (📌 ) after the next response.

Note

This is separate from Claude Code's built-in /rename command which renames the session in the UI sidebar. Use /name to tag the session so the statusline always reminds you what you're working on. You can use both: /rename for the sidebar, /name for the statusline.