Snapshot your terminal state, restore it after a crash — Claude Code sessions included

A developer built claude-sessions, a tool that snapshots terminal state every five minutes and restores it after a crash, including Claude Code sessions. The daemon records iTerm windows, tabs, working directories, and active Claude sessions, allowing recovery via a single command. The tool also includes a cross-project session picker that lists all Claude Code sessions from any directory.

Last time I built claude-sessions https://github.com/DenverLifeSciences/claude-sessions : one picker to resume any Claude Code session across projects. But a machine crash takes more than Claude with it — it takes your whole terminal macOS window restoration exists, but it fails this job twice: claude sessions don't come back.A snapshot daemon plus an explicit restore — no auto-restore, ever. Every 5 minutes, a launchd job walks every iTerm window and tab via AppleScript, and for each tab resolves the tty → the processes on it ps → the working directory lsof -d cwd → and whether a claude process is running there, including which session : from its --resume argument, from the transcript file it holds open, or from the newest transcript for that directory. The result is a small JSON file. Snapshots accumulate as history — the last 100 distinct states, consecutive duplicates skipped, and an empty terminal never overwrites anything. After a crash: claude-sessions --restore-crash newest snapshot claude-sessions --restore-pick or: fzf through history, pick the right one Every tab comes back — as tabs of the window you're standing in — cd 'd to its old directory, with claude --resume <session-id rerun wherever Claude was live. Intentional quit? Just don't run it. You are the crash detector; that's the feature. ~/.claude/bin → iCloud , the timer dies with Operation not permitted — macOS TCC silently denies background jobs access to ~/Library/Mobile Documents . Point the plist at a local copy.Script, launchd template, and docs: A cross-project session picker for Claude Code https://claude.com/claude-code CLI. Your machine crashes with seven Claude Code sessions open across five repos. claude --resume only lists sessions for the directory you run it from — so recovery means remembering every repo you were in, cd -ing into each one, and picking from a list, seven times. claude-sessions instead lists every session from every project in one fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf picker, newest first. Hit Enter and the session opens in a new iTerm tab or tmux window running claude --resume <id in the right directory — while the picker stays open for the next one. enter open session in a new tab picker stays open ctrl-a hide/show agent-teammate sessions ⛭ ctrl-r refresh the list esc quit Each line shows the session's age, project directory, git branch when not main/master , and its opening message. A preview pane shows the last few user/assistant exchanges of the…