Allow custom or disabled terminal window title
Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened May 19, 2026 by benshine Closed Jun 18, 2026
Problem
Claude Code sets the terminal/iTerm2 window title to a summary of what it thinks the session is about. There's no way to customize or disable this.
I have multiple Claude Code sessions open and want to name them myself (e.g. "sorting hat" for my staffing project). The auto-generated title ("Set up Slack message retrieval workflow") doesn't match what I'm actually doing — it picks one task from early in the session and keeps it.
Proposed solution
One or more of:
- A setting like
"terminalTitle": "custom string"to override the auto title - A setting like
"disableTerminalTitle": trueto stop Claude Code from touching the title at all - Letting the title update dynamically to match the current task instead of getting stuck on the first one
Context
I use VoiceOver (screen reader) and have multiple sessions open. Meaningful window titles are important for navigation between them.
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