Add toggle to show all sessions unscoped in `/resume` picker (bypass `cwd`/repo relevance grouping)
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Description
Problem
The /resume (and --resume) session picker scopes/groups sessions by relevance to the current working directory (branch/repo/git-root/directory, per #3277). In practice this means a session started in a different directory can be effectively invisible in the default picker list, even though it is very recent and fully resumable directly via /resume <session-id>.
Example:
- Session
11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555(cwdC:\work\some-other-project, last updated same day) does not appear when running/resumefrom an unrelated cwd (C:\work). /resume 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555resumes it without any issue.
This is confusing: there is no indication that sessions are being filtered/deprioritized, so a session can appear "lost" when it's actually just scoped out of view.
Proposed solution
Add an explicit way to toggle off the directory/repo-based scoping in the /resume picker, so users can reliably see all local sessions regardless of cwd when needed. For example:
- A keybinding (similar to
/for search, see #241) to toggle between "scoped" and "all sessions" view. - And/or a flag, e.g.
copilot --resume --all, to start directly in the unscoped view.
Why this matters
Relevance-based grouping is a nice default, but without an escape hatch it becomes an anti-feature: users lose confidence that /resume shows everything, and have to already know/remember a session ID to resume sessions from other directories.
Related
- #3277
- #241
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start at the /resume and --resume picker entry points, then trace the relevance grouping described in #3277 and the picker search interaction referenced by #241. Decide whether the change should use a toggle, a flag, or both, and verify that the unscoped view exposes all local sessions while the existing scoped view remains the default.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- shell
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100