Claude Recall for VS Code

Label every Claude Code session with the name of the VS Code terminal tab it ran in.

Claude Recall is a local-first memory tool that indexes every Claude Code session you have ever run and makes them searchable from the recall CLI and a browser UI. This extension is the VS Code companion: it lets you name sessions with zero extra steps.

How it works

1. Rename your VS Code terminal tab to something meaningful (auth-refactor, billing-bug, dashboard-v2).
2. Run claude in that tab as you normally would.
3. The session shows up in Recall with the tab name as its alias. Rename the tab mid-session and the alias updates on the next event.

Works in VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Insiders.

Install

Open the Extensions panel (Cmd+Shift+X on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows / Linux), search Claude Recall, install the entry by publisher fibogacci.

Enable

The extension is a companion to the Recall CLI. You need the daemon running for the extension to do anything useful. Install the CLI:

npm install -g @clauderecallhq/cli
recall start

Then in VS Code settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,) flip claude-recall.autoAlias to true. A ⟳ Recall · N indicator will appear in the status bar showing how many terminals are registered with the daemon.

Command palette

Troubleshooting

Status bar shows ⊘ Recall Auto-alias is off. Flip claude-recall.autoAlias to true in settings.

Status bar shows nothing The Recall daemon is not running. Run recall status to check, recall start to fix.

Status bar shows ⟳ Recall · 0 but terminals are open Run Claude Recall: Re-register all open terminals from the command palette.

Privacy

The extension talks to the Recall daemon on 127.0.0.1 and nothing else. It emits three event types:

No terminal buffers. No editor content. No clipboard. No outbound network.

Links

• Product site: clauderecall.com
• CLI on npm: @clauderecallhq/cli