# Session Log -- 2026-10-26

## Summary
Added a folder browser, unique-topic prompt and Location column to the `claude-sessions` menu, then added a `--headless` spawn mode and moved the `/spawn-session` skill onto it. Tested live by spawning a "Migration" session.

## Decisions
- Decision: Folder picker uses `zenity` when a display exists, otherwise a built-in terminal browser -- Rationale: sessions are often driven over SSH/tmux where no GUI is available; both support creating a folder.
- Decision: Topic = tmux session name = Remote Control name, defaulting to the Title-Cased folder name; "in use" means a live tmux session only -- Rationale: resumable registry entries do not occupy a tmux name.
- Decision: Headless mode fails (exit 2) on a taken topic instead of adding `#N` -- Rationale: callers (the skill) must ask the user for a real topic so all sessions have meaningful names.
- Decision: `--create` only accepts absolute paths -- Rationale: avoids creating folders in an unexpected cwd.

## Gotchas Discovered
- **[editing]** Symptom: a Python patch script replaced the wrong region of `claude-sessions` and deleted ~450 lines -- Fix: `git checkout` the file and re-apply with the Edit tool. Cause: `s.index('elif raw == "n":')` matched the first occurrence, which was inside newly inserted helper code, not `cmd_menu`. Anchor slice searches after a unique function marker (`s.index(..., s.index("def cmd_menu"))`).
- **[tmux]** Symptom: `tmux capture-pane -t "=Name"` returns "can't find pane" -- Fix: use the bare session name for pane targets; `=` exact-match works only for session targets (`has-session`, `attach`, `switch-client`).
- **[tmux]** tmux rewrites `.` and `:` in session names to `_`, so topic checks compare the rewritten form and reject those characters.

## Open Questions
- Menu path not yet exercised by hand end to end (`n` -> `b` -> topic -> attach). Only helper functions and the menu listing were tested.
- Does the Location column look right for the new "Migration" session in the live menu?

## Key Context
- Script: `projects/claude-foundations/scripts/claude-sessions`; commits `c32ea46` (menu) and `d237789` (headless). Skill: `custom-claude-skills/skills/spawn-session`, commit `a5b82a2`.
- Headless: `claude-sessions spawn <folder> --headless [--name topic] [--create]`; exit 1 = folder missing, exit 2 = topic in use.
- Live test: skill spawned "Migration" in `~/dev/claude/projects/migration`; Remote Control active.

## Process Notes
- Script docs rule followed: new `memory/script-claude-sessions.md` plus MEMORY.md index line; `skill-spawn-session.md` updated.