Add a setting to disable the Work Board / 'Yesterday's sessions' panel auto-opening on startup
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Activity 0 comments · opened Jul 23, 2026
What happened
On the macOS desktop app, after a reboot / fresh login, a Work Board panel titled "Yesterday's sessions" / "Yesterday's work" auto-opens in the preview pane on startup. It shows recent session threads for the last repo with Open PR / Branch / Diff affordances.
There is currently no way to prevent this from opening automatically:
- No documented
settings.jsonkey (workBoard,preview,layout, etc.). - Not driven by any user hook, scheduled task, or cron (verified locally).
- Closing the panel does not reliably stop it from being restored on the next launch.
Request
A user-configurable toggle to disable the Work Board auto-open on startup — e.g. a settings.json key such as:
{ "workBoard": { "autoOpenOnStartup": false } }
This is the same class of request as the preview-pane auto-open toggle in #51587 — a way to opt out of a panel opening itself. Some users start each session by returning to specific work and would prefer a clean pane on launch.
Environment
- Claude Code desktop app, macOS.