[Bug] Local sessions fail to load in Claude Code tab with "Not found" assets-proxy error
Status Open
Reported on v2.1.263
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Sep 8, 2026
Bug Description
In the Claude desktop app, the Code tab never loads any local session.
Every locally-created chat shows permanent skeleton loaders and the composer
refuses to send. A cloud session in the same sidebar opens and works fine.
Steps to reproduce
- Have local Claude Code sessions in ~/.claude/projects/
- Open the desktop app → Code tab
- Click any locally-created chat
- Skeleton loaders stay indefinitely; sending a message does nothing
Expected: the transcript renders from the local .jsonl file.
Actual: skeletons forever, no error surfaced in the UI.
Notes
- The sidebar also lists sessions created on a different machine, so the chat
list appears to come from the cloud while local transcripts were never uploaded.
- Main log contains only [REACT_QUERY_CLIENT] QueryClient error: "Not found"
from assets-proxy — no other errors, nothing logged when a chat fails to open.
- CLI 2.1.263 in Terminal works normally, including --resume on the very same
session files the app cannot render.
Already tried, no effect
- Cleared app Cache / Code Cache / GPUCache
- Symlinked the CLI into /usr/local/bin (installed via Homebrew at
/opt/homebrew/bin/claude) - Removed stale ~/.claude/ide/*.lock
- Moved every transcript over 50 MB out of ~/.claude/projects/