Continuing an earlier session

An earlier session is never closed for good. Open it in AigoPilot, write a prompt in its box and send, and the studio starts the tool again with that session's history and puts your prompt in. There is no separate Continue button. The conversation goes on from the last line, whether you left it ten minutes ago or three weeks ago.

This works for sessions the studio started and for the sessions of its other computers. A session that another program started, such as VS Code, needs one more click first; that case is in Sessions you started in VS Code or a terminal.

Continue a session

1. Open the project and click the session in the list. Archived ones are behind the line at the end of the list.
2. Read the end of the conversation to remember where it stopped.
3. Write your prompt in the box. Choose a model or effort first if you want a different one.
4. Send it.

The session continues with the account that holds its transcript, even if the project's account is another one. The studio does not move a session to another account by itself. A session that waited at the usage limit is continued the same way, or by itself as described below.

If the file of the session has been deleted, the studio says so. You can still read the history but cannot continue it.

When it was open somewhere else

If another program is using the session at that moment, or wrote to its file a few seconds ago, the studio stops before sending. It tells you the session is open in another program, and that continuing from two places splits its history in two. Your prompt is kept. Close the session in the other program and press Take it over and continue, or press Cancel to leave it.

A session that came from another computer asks once as well. It says how many messages it holds and how large it is, and that your first message reads the whole conversation to the model again, which costs part of your limit. Press Continue it here to agree.

Long sessions and cold caches

Claude keeps a finished conversation in a cache for five minutes or an hour, depending on the request. Continue after that and the whole history is read again at full price. The ring beside a finished Claude Code session shows how much of that time is left; The cache countdown and the reminder explains it.

When a session is heavy, from about 60 percent of its window, the studio suggests Continue in a fresh session. The old session writes a handover and a new session starts from it, so you pay for a short summary instead of the long history. See Continue in a fresh session with a handover.

A session that hit the usage limit

When a Claude Code session reaches the usage limit of its account, its row says so and shows the time the limit resets. By default the studio continues the session from where it stopped one minute after the reset. It never changes the model or the account to do it. The studio, or its engine on that computer, must be running at that moment.

You choose the behavior in three places:

• Settings, How sessions work, When the usage limit resets: Continue by itself, Continue important projects only, or Wait for me.
• The settings of one project, When the limit resets, overrides the general choice for that project. The tick Important project in the same place is what the middle choice looks at.
• On the session itself, a button says Not this time when it will continue, or Continue when it resets when it will not.

If Claude Code did not say when the limit resets, the studio will not continue the session by itself. More in When you hit a usage limit.

Closing the window while sessions run

The red light at the top left, and the close button of the window, only hide it. The sessions go on, and the studio stays in the tray. To leave for real, use Quit in the tray menu or in Settings. If a session is working or waiting on you, the studio asks first, in a window titled A session is still working:

• Go on in the background keeps the work in progress running. The next time you open the studio you see the same sessions.
• Stop them all closes every session now. The conversations stay and can be continued later.

If something closes the studio without asking, a session shows Stopped unexpectedly and the next prompt continues it from where it was.

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