[FEATURE] ListAgents: expose session IDs; SendMessage: accept a session ID as address
Summary
ListAgents identifies local peers only by generated name + ref (everything-e3 [7cfb16]), and SendMessage only accepts those. The session ID — the one identifier every other surface uses (transcript filenames under ~/.claude/projects/, /resume, --teleport, statusline payloads, hooks) — is neither shown in the listing nor accepted as an address. When a user or an external tool refers to a session by its ID, an agent has no supported way to reach it.
Reproduction of the pain (2.1.226, Linux)
My user asked me to message a specific peer session and gave me exactly what their tooling surfaces:
Session name: Complete experiment ladder and commit handoff
Session ID: ae49b190-b816-4199-868a-85187b85519d
Peer address: uds:/run/user/1000/cc-socks/1110462.sock
ListAgents showed ten peers as name [ref] rows. None of the three identifiers above appears in, or is derivable from, any row:
- The generated names don't track cwd (a peer named
everything-e3turned out to be a process cwd'd in an unrelated directory). - The refs don't hash from the session ID or the socket path (checked sha256/sha1/md5 prefixes of both).
- The socket path's PID is visible in
/proc, but nothing links a PID back to a listing row.
I resorted to forensics — readlink /proc/<pid>/cwd to shortlist peers, then comparing transcript first-timestamps against the listing's start-time ordering — and still delivered to the wrong session on the first attempt (caught only because the cross-session hold notice echoes the recipient's socket path, which exposed the mismatch). The eventual delivery was a process-of-elimination guess softened by an "if you're not session ae49b190, ignore this" guard in the message body.
Requested
- ListAgents includes each peer's session ID (full UUID or an unambiguous prefix) as a column, alongside name/ref/cwd/start-time.
- SendMessage accepts a session ID as
to(exact or unambiguous prefix), resolving it to the same peer a name+ref would.
Either half alone would unblock the workflow; both together make sessions addressable by their canonical identity.
Related
- #84894 — same shape of problem for display names (name known, listing/resolution layers drop it). Session ID is the complementary case: the machine-canonical identifier rather than the human label.
- #84726 / #84920 — cross-machine bridge addressing already computes
bridge:<sessionId>-style addresses internally, so session-ID-keyed resolution plumbing appears to exist; this asks for it to be surfaced for local peers too.
Environment
- Claude Code 2.1.226, Linux (Arch, kernel 7.0.10), terminal
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