Fork Conversation opens empty session (resume: undefined) in VS Code extension v2.1.157
Status Closed — not planned
Reported on v2.1.157
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Activity 1 comment · opened May 30, 2026 · closed Jul 3, 2026
Environment
- Extension version: 2.1.157 (darwin-arm64)
- VS Code: latest
- Platform: macOS (Darwin 25.5.0, Apple Silicon)
Bug
"Fork Conversation from here" opens a new tab but the conversation is empty — no history from the fork point is carried over. The new session starts fresh.
Reproduction
- Have any conversation with at least a few messages
- Hover over a message and click "Fork Conversation from here"
- New tab opens but shows an empty conversation (no forked history)
Reproducible 100% of the time across different conversations and different fork points.
Root Cause (from extension logs)
The fork correctly:
- Hard-links file history/checkpoints from the source session to the new session
- Opens a new tab via
new_conversation_tabwith the correctsessionId
But the spawned Claude process starts with resume: undefined:
Spawning Claude with SDK query function - cwd: ..., resume: undefined
The resumeSessionAt message ID from the fork_conversation request is not being passed through to the new process.
Expected
The forked session should resume from the specified resumeSessionAt message, preserving conversation history up to that point.
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