Conversation history no longer persists after Developer: Reload Window in VS Code
Status Closed — not planned
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Activity 6 comments · opened May 15, 2026 · closed Jun 13, 2026
Description
Conversation history used to persist after using Developer: Reload Window in VS Code. As of today (2026-05-15), the conversation is cleared on reload instead of being restored.
Steps to Reproduce
- Start a conversation with Claude Code in VS Code
- Use Developer: Reload Window (or
Ctrl+Shift+P→ "Developer: Reload Window") - Observe that conversation history is gone
Expected Behavior
Conversation history should be restored after the window reloads, as it did previously.
Actual Behavior
Conversation history is completely lost after reload.
When Did It Stop Working
- Last working: 2026-05-14
- First broken: 2026-05-15 (likely due to an overnight auto-update)
Environment
- OS: macOS (Darwin 25.5.0)
- IDE: VS Code with Claude Code extension
6 Comments
Found 3 possible duplicate issues:
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🤖 Generated with Claude Code
may be the issue is duplicate but you could you update me with status thanks
+1, reproduced on:
One additional detail worth noting: in my case the reload did not just wipe the current session — it also wiped a substantial chunk of conversation history from the PREVIOUS day. So this is not limited to "history from before the reload of the current session" — anything still rendered in the UI from earlier sessions can also disappear.
Closing for now — inactive for too long. Please open a new issue if this is still relevant.
If Mythos is so good how come Anthropic can’t use it to fix this small bug.
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