Agent session history

Orca scans the on-disk session transcripts that supported agent CLIs leave behind and lists them in a right-sidebar panel called Agent Session History. Pick a past session, click Resume, and Orca runs the agent's resume command in a fresh terminal — same cwd, same session ID, no manual --resume flag wrangling.

Open the panel

Open the right sidebar and switch to the Agents tab. The panel header reads "Agent Session History".

The header shows a count like 12 shown · 47 recent and a search box. Type to filter by session title, working directory, branch, model, or preview text from the conversation.

Scope

The scope toggle at the top of the panel decides which sessions appear:

• Workspace — sessions from the current workspace or worktree, depending on the active workspace context.
• Project — sessions that resolve to the active Orca project.
• All — every session Orca found across every agent on this machine.

Remote workspaces can browse local history, but resume actions only run from local workspaces — Orca tells you so in the panel when the active worktree is remote.

View options

The view-options menu (next to the search box) controls which agents are scanned, plus sort and grouping:

• Agents — toggle individual CLIs on or off (Claude, Codex, Cursor, Gemini, Hermes, Pi, Copilot, OpenCode, Grok, OpenClaw, Droid, Rovo Dev). Disabled agents are skipped during the scan.
• Sort — Last updated or Created.
• Group — Project, Folder (one heading per cwd), or Agent (one heading per CLI).
• Hide empty sessions — drop sessions with zero recorded messages.

Resume a session

Click a session row to open its details: working directory, branch, model, message count, total tokens, the original ask, and the latest conversation turns. You can also drag an enabled session row into the workspace to resume it. From the row's actions you can:

• Resume — opens a new terminal in the session's cwd and runs the agent's resume command (e.g. claude --resume <id>, codex resume <id>, cursor-agent --resume <id>, acli rovodev run --restore <id>). Codex sessions also re-export CODEX_HOME when the original session set one.
• Copy resume command — copies the same shell command to the clipboard for use in an external terminal.
• Copy session ID / Copy log path — for scripting or attaching transcripts to bug reports.
• Open log / Reveal log — open the raw transcript file in Orca, or jump to it in your OS file manager.
• Open cwd — open the session's working directory as a workspace.

Where the transcripts come from

Orca reads each agent's own on-disk session store — Codex's ~/.codex/sessions, Claude's ~/.claude history, Cursor's session log, OpenCode's legacy session files or ~/.local/share/opencode/opencode.db, and so on. There's nothing extra to enable; if the CLI writes a transcript, it shows up in the panel after the next scan. Use the Refresh Session History button in the header to rescan on demand.

Next steps

• Hot-swap Codex accounts — switch the Codex login behind an active session without restarting it.
• Hooks & memory — control what context an agent picks up on every launch (including resumed sessions).