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Continue Most Recent Session

Resume the last session in the current working directory without knowing the session ID

Command

$ "color:#7C5CFC">claude -p "What did we discuss?" "color:#d97757">--continue

Response

Based on our previous conversation, we discussed the authentication module refactoring...

Parsing Code

059669">">const output = execFileSync(059669059669">">'claude', [
  059669059669">">'-p', 059669059669">">'Continue where we left off', 059669059669">">'--continue', 059669059669">">'--output-format', 059669059669">">'text'
], { encoding: 059669059669">">'utf-8', env: { ...process.env, CLAUDECODE: 059669">'' } });

Gotchas

! --continue is directory-scoped — won't find sessions created from other directories
! Use --resume SESSION_ID for cross-directory session resumption

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