Renaming a session's name to the name of the pull request is confusing and no...

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
65/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Domain
desktop

Research direction

Start in the /chat session lifecycle and trace where creating a pull request replaces the session name. Add a settings toggle controlling that behavior, preserving the existing default unless the issue's intended behavior specifies otherwise. Verify that sessions can retain their names when the toggle is disabled and that pull request naming still works when enabled.

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Description

Renaming a session's name to the name of the pull request is confusing and not a behavior I want. Please make this a toggleable configuration in the settings. Some sessions I have will create more than one PR, or the PR descriptions are harder to grok than the original sesssion name due to PR title requirements. It's annoying to have a session with a name you've associated with while working with it to then suddenly change from under you near the end of the session's lifecycle when it has made a PR.

Field Value
App version 1.1.22
OS macOS 26.6.2
Theme GitHub
Path /chat
Tenure Week 4
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