Claudette

title: The tab’s menu parent: Tabs and sessions nav_order: 5 summary: “Right-click a tab’s row in the sidebar for its menu. Its items are in sections under small titles, as in the header’s ≡ menu, with an icon before each. Some show only when they apply to the tab, such as Reset name or Sync now, and those that follow another, such as Reset name after Rename, have no icon of their own. A check item’s tick goes before its icon. A tab’s square on the rail has the same menu, without Reset name, Move up, Move down and Close other tabs, and with Collapse tab only on a thread with sub-threads.

The project’s actions and links aren’t in this menu. They’re in the menu of the project’s icon on the tab’s group’s row, which is there for every group. See Project tools.

The items

In the order the menu has them.

Tab

Item	What it does	More
Rename	Edits the tab’s name in place. Double-clicking the row does the same.	Names, marks and pins
Reset name	Goes back to the automatic name. Shown while the tab has a name of yours.	Names, marks and pins
Pin tab or Unpin tab	A pinned tab comes back at every launch and stays at the start of its group.	Names, marks and pins
Mark ▸	Puts an icon of your own under the status icon: Check, Cross, Question mark, Star, Flag or Pause.	Names, marks and pins
Clear mark	Takes the mark off. Shown while the tab has one.	Names, marks and pins
Duplicate tab	Opens a copy of the tab.	Below
Tab settings…	The tab’s own model, effort, mode and more. A dot on its icon means the tab has its own settings.	Tab settings

View

Item	What it does	More
Open beside	Shows the tab beside the one you’re in. Shown for a tab that isn’t on screen.	Split panes
Close pane	Takes a tab off the screen and leaves it open. Shown for a tab in a pane.	Split panes
Steps ▸	Folds each chain of Claude’s steps in this tab into one line, or shows them all: Default (what Settings does), Folded or All.	Tool calls
Collapse tab or Expand tab	Folds away the rows under the tab, such as its sub-threads, subagents, editor logs and project runs, or brings them back. Shown while the tab has rows under it.	Collapsing a tab
Move up, Move down	Move the tab one place in its group.	Below

Session

Item	What it does	More
Thread ▸	Makes the tab a thread, or a sub-thread of one. See the list below.	Making a thread
Account ▸	Moves the tab to another account. Shown once there’s an account besides Default.	Moving a tab to another account
Use usage credits	A check item: once a limit is used up, the tab carries on with your plan’s usage credits. Unticked, it stops and waits for the limit to reset. Not on an API-key account.	Tabs that don’t use usage credits
Trust this folder	Starts Claude Code again with the folder’s own settings, MCP servers and `CLAUDE.md`. Shown for a tab that started without them.	Folder trust
Export conversation…	Saves the conversation as a Markdown file or a web page.	Exporting
Copy session ID	Copies the session’s ID. Shown once the tab has a session.	Below

Other devices

Item	What it does	More
Sync to other machines	A check item: copies the tab’s session to the session library after each turn.	Syncing a tab
Sync now	Copies the session to the library straight away. Shown while the tab syncs.	Syncing a tab
Connect to the Claude app	A check item: connects the tab to the Claude app whenever its session runs. Greyed out, with the reason as its tip, when the account can’t use it.	The Claude app
Open in the Claude app	Opens the tab’s session in the Claude app. Shown while the tab is connected.	The Claude app

Closing

Under a line at the foot of the menu.

Item	What it does	More
Close	Closes the tab, asking first when something would be lost.	Closing and restoring
Close other tabs	Closes every other tab except pinned ones.	Closing and restoring

The Thread ▸ submenu offers whichever of these apply to the tab:

Make this tab a thread
New sub-thread and New sub-thread in a worktree, on a thread
Assign to thread ▸, listing the group’s threads
Go to thread, on a sub-thread
Show with its sub-threads, on a thread
Detach from thread, on a sub-thread
Ask before sending to sub-threads, a check item on a thread
Stop being a thread

Duplicate tab

Duplicate tab opens a new tab in the same group that carries the session on as a copy. The two go their own ways from there, and the original doesn’t change.

The copy has the original’s folder, settings of its own, kept suffixes, sync choice and account, and works in the same worktree and with the same extra folders. It doesn’t take the tab’s name, mark or pin. A tab that hasn’t had its first turn gets a new session in the same folder instead.

To copy a conversation only up to an earlier message, use Branch from here. See Rewind and branch.

Copy session ID

The session’s ID is what claude --resume takes in a terminal. Copy session ID puts it on the clipboard. The same ID is on the info card, under Session, with a Copy button.

Paste it into another tab’s message and that tab’s Claude can reach this session too: Claudette tells Claude the name to message it by. See Reaching other sessions.

Move up and Move down

Move up and Move down move the tab one place within its group, as dragging does. A pinned tab never passes an unpinned one. A thread moves together with its sub-threads, and a sub-thread moves among its thread’s.