Claude Persist

Persistent Claude Code sessions for VS Code and code-server.
Refresh the browser, close the laptop, come back on your phone —
the session keeps running on the server and the chat picks up where it left off.

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**Install:** search **Claude Persist** in the Extensions view, or from [the VS Code Marketplace](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaga.claude-persist-vscode) and [Open VSX](https://open-vsx.org/extension/jaga/claude-persist-vscode). Your editor picks the build for its platform. The [listing](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaga.claude-persist-vscode) has the feature list, requirements, settings and first-run steps; this file is about how it works and how to hack on it.

This is a community project. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic.


Why

A VS Code extension's processes die with the extension host. In code-server that host restarts on every page refresh, which is why the official Claude Code extension loses a live session when you reload ([anthropics/claude-code#36845](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/36845)). Desktop VS Code restarts it too, just less often: on reload, on an extension update, on a crash.

VS Code solved this for terminals by moving them out of the extension host and into a process that outlives it. Claude Persist does the same for Claude sessions: the conversation lives in a daemon, and every window is a disposable view onto it.

browser tab           server
┌───────────────┐   ┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ webview tabs  │   │  extension host (thin client)   │
│ (disposable)  │◄─►│