[BUG]

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What's Wrong?

Session history disappears (or throws error suggesting rm -rf on globalStorage) after closing and reopening VSCode

Description:

After closing and reopening VSCode, previously created Claude Code sessions no longer appear in the extension's session history. In some cases, instead of showing an empty history, the extension throws an error referencing the following command:

Error: Claude Code returned an error result: No conversation found with session ID: 99a4eb96-8003-4745-998a-20f7f689db1e
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Steps to reproduce:

Open VSCode with the Claude Code extension and start a new session.
Do some work in that session (send messages, etc.).
Close VSCode completely.
Reopen VSCode and try to return to that same session.
Expected behavior:
The session should reopen with its full history intact, exactly as it was before closing VSCode.

Actual behavior:

The session history is empty / the previous session is no longer listed, OR
The extension throws an error referencing rm -rf ~/Library/"Application Support"/Code/User/globalStorage/anthropic.claude-code (see exact text above).
Additional context:
I confirmed that the actual conversation transcripts are still intact under ~/.claude/projects/<project>/*.jsonl after this happens — the data itself is not lost. This suggests the issue is with the extension's session index/cache stored in globalStorage/anthropic.claude-code, which appears to become corrupted or cleared between VSCode restarts, causing the UI to lose track of existing sessions (or throw the error above as a suggested "fix").

What Should Happen?

I should have access to my previues sesions

Error Messages/Logs

2026-08-07 09:28:04.687 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.687Z [DEBUG] Policy limits: Saved to /Users/jesusmiranda/.claude/policy-limits.json

2026-08-07 09:28:04.687 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.687Z [DEBUG] Policy limits: Applied new restrictions successfully

2026-08-07 09:28:04.712 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.712Z [DEBUG] Remote settings: Fetched successfully

2026-08-07 09:28:04.720 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.720Z [DEBUG] Broken symlink or missing file encountered for settings.json at path: /Users/jesusmiranda/saftu-bis/.claude/settings.json

2026-08-07 09:28:04.723 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] Broken symlink or missing file encountered for settings.json at path: /Library/Application Support/ClaudeCode/managed-settings.json

2026-08-07 09:28:04.723 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] Cleared CA certificates cache
2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] Cleared mTLS configuration cache
2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] Cleared proxy agent cache

2026-08-07 09:28:04.723 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] CA certs: stores=bundled,system, extraCertsPath=undefined

2026-08-07 09:28:04.723 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] CA certs: Loaded 121 bundled root certificates

2026-08-07 09:28:04.723 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] CA certs: Loaded 2 system CA certificates
2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] mTLS: Creating HTTPS agent with custom certificates

2026-08-07 09:28:04.724 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.723Z [DEBUG] Remote settings: Applied for this non-interactive run; consent deferred — not persisting the disk cache as consented

2026-08-07 09:28:04.724 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.724Z [DEBUG] Programmatic settings change notification for policySettings

2026-08-07 09:28:04.732 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.732Z [DEBUG] Broken symlink or missing file encountered for settings.json at path: /Users/jesusmiranda/saftu-bis/.claude/settings.json

2026-08-07 09:28:04.735 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.735Z [DEBUG] Broken symlink or missing file encountered for settings.json at path: /Library/Application Support/ClaudeCode/managed-settings.json

2026-08-07 09:28:04.735 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.735Z [DEBUG] [Bootstrap] Fetch ok

2026-08-07 09:28:04.736 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.736Z [DEBUG] [Bootstrap] Cache unchanged, skipping write

2026-08-07 09:28:04.792 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:04.792Z [DEBUG] [claudeai-mcp] Fetched 10 servers

2026-08-07 09:28:04.860 [info] Closing Claude on channel: g240z5i6ot5
2026-08-07 09:28:04.860 [error] Error spawning Claude (on channel g240z5i6ot5): Error: Claude Code returned an error result: No conversation found with session ID: 99a4eb96-8003-4745-998a-20f7f689db1e
2026-08-07 09:28:32.421 [info] Received message from webview: {"type":"request","requestId":"fogkt7l6tgu","request":{"type":"open_output_panel"}}
2026-08-07 09:28:38.380 [info] From claude: 2026-08-07T15:28:38.380Z [DEBUG] Metrics export disabled by organization setting

Steps to Reproduce

Open VSCode with the Claude Code extension and start a new session.
Do some work in that session (send messages, etc.).
Close VSCode completely.
Reopen VSCode and try to return to that same session.

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

_No response_

Claude Code Version

Claude Code extension version: 2.1.224 (darwin-arm64)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

_No response_