Desktop sidebar: browser-started sessions have no Archive/Delete option
Summary
Sessions in the Claude Code Desktop app's sidebar that were started from the web (via claude.ai/code in a browser) do not have an Archive or Delete option in their right-click context menu. Sessions started locally in the Desktop app have the full menu, including Archive/Delete. There's no way to remove a browser-started session from the sidebar once it's there.
Steps to reproduce
- Start a Claude Code session from
https://claude.ai/codein a browser. - Open the Claude Code Desktop app — the browser-started session appears in the sidebar (e.g. under "Ungrouped").
- Right-click the session.
Expected
Context menu offers Archive and Delete, matching the menu shown for Desktop-started sessions.
Actual
Right-clicking a browser-started session shows only: Open PR, Open in, Pin, Copy link, Move to group.
Right-clicking a Desktop-started session shows the full menu: Open in, Pin, Mark as unread, Rename, Share, Copy link, Move to group, Archive, Delete.
Impact
Browser-started sessions accumulate in the sidebar permanently with no cleanup path. "Move to group" is the only available mitigation (collapsing them into a group out of the main view), but that's a workaround, not a fix.
Additional notes
Also attempted to archive one of these sessions programmatically via the Claude Code session-management MCP tooling, using the session ID from its browser URL (https://claude.ai/code/session_01Di9gpUvuNXyCtvMb3yk33h), both as given and with a remote_ prefix — both returned "Session not found," and a full-text transcript search for the ID also found nothing. So the session appears to be entirely out of reach of the Desktop app's local session-management tooling, not just missing a UI button — suggesting the underlying session record isn't synced/registered the same way local sessions are.