[FEATURE] Desktop app: a way to rename the current conversation from the keyboard (no menu item, no slash command, no accessibility handle)

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• [x] This is a single feature request (not multiple features)

Problem Statement

This is about the Claude desktop app for macOS (com.anthropic.claudefordesktop 1.26832.0), not the CLI.

Renaming a conversation is possible only by hovering the sidebar row and using the menu that appears. There is no way to do it from the keyboard, and no way to script it:

• The app's entire menu bar is File (New Conversation), Edit, View, Window, Help. There is no Rename item, so there is nothing for macOS System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts to bind to.
• /rename, which exists in the CLI, returns "Unknown skill: rename" in a desktop session.
• The sidebar rows and the hover menu are absent from the macOS accessibility tree (#85593), so no assistive tool or user automation can reach the control either.

The result is that a conversation title can only ever be changed with the mouse, one hover and two clicks at a time.

Proposed Solution

Any one of these would solve it:

1. A Rename Conversation item in the File menu. This is the cheapest option and costs nothing to maintain: macOS then lets every user bind their own key to it through System Settings, and it becomes reachable by VoiceOver at the same time.
2. A built-in shortcut, for example Cmd+Shift+R, that puts the current conversation's title into edit mode.
3. A /rename <title> command in the desktop app, matching the CLI.

Alternative Solutions

There is no workaround worth having. I looked at driving the sidebar with Hammerspoon, but with the rows and the hover menu missing from the accessibility tree it would mean clicking blind at computed pixel positions two levels deep and then typing into a field nothing can verify. I did build exactly that for previous/next conversation, and it works, but it is not something I would extend to a text field.

Related: #64231 asks for an agent-callable rename tool in Cowork and has gone stale; this request is the human-facing half of the same gap. #80682 asks for an archive shortcut, which is the same shape of problem. #85593 is the accessibility bug underneath all of them.

Priority

Medium - Would be very helpful

Feature Category

Other

Use Case Example

I keep many desktop sessions and mark finished ones by appending a tag to the title, so I rename conversations several times a day.

1. A session finishes.
2. I want to append "[closed]" to its name so I can see at a glance what is still live.
3. Today: move to the mouse, find the row, hover it, click the overflow menu, click Rename, type, press Return.
4. With a menu item or a shortcut: one keystroke, type, Return, hands never leave the keyboard.

At a dozen renames a day the difference is not the seconds, it is the interruption.

Additional Context

Worth noting that a File menu item is the highest-leverage fix of the three: it gives keyboard users, screen reader users, and anyone with a macro tool the same handle, without the app having to own a shortcut choice.