Tabs and sessions
A tab is one Claude Code session, run as its own claude process in a working folder. Claudette keeps the tabs in a sidebar, grouped by folder, and a panel beside the conversation shows what the selected tab is doing.
This chapter covers how tabs are opened, grouped, named, marked and closed; what a tab’s row, menu and info card show; the settings a single tab can have of its own; the tool windows (changed files, agents, processes, MCP servers and the rest); showing tabs side by side; the command palette; tabs that work in a git worktree; and what comes back when Claudette starts again.
In this chapter
- Opening tabsEvery tab has a working folder, which you pick when you open it.
- The sidebarThe sidebar lists your tabs down the left of the window, grouped by working folder, so long session names, a status line and many tabs all fit.
- Folder groupsTabs that share a working folder sit together in a group in the sidebar, like browser tab groups.
- Names, marks and pinsThree small things set a tab apart in the sidebar: its name, an icon of your own (a mark), and whether it's pinned.
- The tab info cardThe info card is where a tab's details live, so they don't crowd its name.
- Tab settingsSome settings can be different for one tab.
- Tool windowsChanged files, the agents, tasks and more are tool windows, shown and hidden from a strip of icons at the window's right, as in JetBrains Rider.
- Split panesShow up to three tabs side by side, each pane with its own conversation, composer and working line and a line between them.
- The command paletteThe command palette is a box over the window that does anything Claudette has a command for, when you type a few letters of it.
- Worktree tabsSeveral tabs in one folder edit the same files, so one tab's changes can trip another's.
- ProcessesThe process monitor shows what each tab has started, such as test runs, dev servers, builds and MCP servers, with their CPU and memory use.
- MCP serversMCP servers give Claude extra tools.
- Closing and restoringClosing a tab stops its Claude Code, and Claudette asks first when something would be lost.