[BUG] Desktop app: no way to open an existing folder; terminal-started sessions never appear in Recents

Environment

• Claude Code 2.1.220, installMethod: native
• Windows 11 (10.0.26200)
• Desktop app, MSIX package Claude_pzs8sxrjxfjjc

Problem

The desktop app offers no way to start a session in a directory other than the
current session's cwd.

• "+ New" creates a session in the current session's working directory and never

asks which folder to use.

• The Home tab contains no folder picker.
• Sessions started from a terminal (cd <dir> && claude) create a CLI transcript

at ~/.claude/projects/<encoded-cwd>/<cliSessionId>.jsonl but no app-side
wrapper, so they never show up in Recents — restarting the app does not help.

The result is that a directory which exists on disk, contains a CLAUDE.md, and
already has session history is unreachable from the app UI. The only entry point
is a terminal.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a new folder, e.g. C:\Users\<user>\projects\Foo, with a CLAUDE.md in it.
2. From a terminal: cd C:\Users\<user>\projects\Foo && claude, send a message, exit.

→ A transcript now exists under ~/.claude/projects/C--Users-<user>-projects-Foo/.

1. Open the desktop app and restart it.

→ Foo does not appear in Recents, and there is no way to open it from the UI.

What I verified

• App sessions are CLI sessions. Each wrapper file under

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\Claude_pzs8sxrjxfjjc\LocalCache\Roaming\Claude\claude-code-sessions\<a>\<b>\local_*.json
carries a cliSessionId that resolves to a transcript in ~/.claude/projects/.
All 10 wrappers on this machine resolved correctly.

• The Recents list is populated from wrappers only, not from ~/.claude/projects/.
• Note for anyone debugging this: transcript filenames are always the bare

cliSessionId UUID for both app and terminal sessions — only the wrapper carries
the local_ prefix. Classifying sessions by transcript filename is misleading.

Workaround (works, but should not be necessary)

Hand-create a wrapper: copy an existing local_*.json, then set sessionId
(new, local_-prefixed), cliSessionId, cwd, originCwd, title, createdAt,
lastActivityAt, lastFocusedAt, completedTurns, model; write it into the same
folder and restart the app. Verified working.

Expected

Any one of:

• An "Open folder" action in the app.
• A folder selector when creating a new session, defaulting to the current cwd.
• Recents (or a separate project list) populated from ~/.claude/projects/, so

that folders already known to the CLI are reachable from the app.

The third option seems closest to what a user expects: the project already exists on
disk and the CLI already knows about it — having to author a JSON file to reach it is
surprising.