Allow customizing the terminal tab title format
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 25, 2026 by ymcwebdev Closed Mar 25, 2026
Problem
Claude Code's default terminal tab title is long (e.g., full-path — ✱ Claude Code — username), which gets truncated with ... at the beginning in terminals with narrow tabs. When you have multiple tabs open, you can't tell which tab is which at a glance.
/rename helps, but you have to manually do it for every session. The default title format itself should be shorter and cleaner.
Desired behavior
A setting to control the terminal title format, so the default can be something short like just the current folder name instead of the full path + "Claude Code" + username. For example:
{
"terminalTitle": {
"type": "command",
"command": "basename \"$PWD\""
}
}
Related issues
- #17951
- #25307
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