Debugging a lost prompt in remote Claude Code sessions

Short summary

A developer recounts a subtle bug where Claude Code's remote session lost a user-input prompt after a disconnection, causing the agent to silently skip a question and proceed without an answer. The post traces the root cause through Claude Code's session model—sessions are persisted data on disk, not running processes—and explains how Remote Control, VS Code Remote-SSH, and a custom Telegram notifier interplay. The fix turned out to be a single configuration line.

• •Claude Code remote session silently dropped a user prompt after reconnection
• •Root cause traced to session persistence model and Remote Control disconnect behavior
• •Fix was a single config line; broader lesson on not trusting agents with unbounded reach

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