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> 💡 **How do I find a session ID?** You don't need to memorize them. Running `copilot --resume` without an ID shows an interactive list of your previous sessions, their names, IDs, and when they were last active. Just pick the one you want.
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> **What about multiple terminals?** Each terminal window is its own session with its own context. If you have Copilot CLI open in three terminals, that's three separate sessions. Running `--resume` from any terminal lets you browse all of them. The `--continue` flag grabs whichever session was closed most recently, no matter which terminal it was in.
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> **Can I switch sessions without restarting?** Yes. Use the `/resume` slash command from inside an active session:
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The fenced code block inside this callout doesn’t specify a language (elsewhere in this README, blockquoted examples use bash for consistency and syntax highlighting). Consider changing this fence to bash to match the other CLI examples.

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> > /resume
> # Shows a list of sessions to switch to
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### Organize Your Sessions

Give sessions meaningful names so you can find them later:
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> Find all TODO comments in @samples/book-app-project/**/*.py
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### Switch Sessions While Working

Inside an interactive session, use the `/resume` command:

```bash
copilot

> /resume
# Shows a list of sessions to switch to
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### View Session Info

```bash
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