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, or model.

Scope

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

• This — sessions from the current workspace or worktree (depending on the View options → Scope setting: Workspace, Worktree, or Global).
• 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 — 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, and a transcript preview. 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, 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).