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agent ls

Opens a list of previous chats to pick one to resume.

agent ls is a terminal subcommand and is called directly in the shell, without a session needing to be running first. According to the reference, the official description is simply "Resume a chat session" – despite the name ls, it doesn't list files, but offers previous chat sessions for selection, which you then resume. Since an update in June 2026, agent ls, the --resume flag, and the /resume slash command ("Open recent chats and resume one") all open the same list by default: all chats across all workspaces, no longer just those of the current directory. There is no dedicated /ls slash command; /resume is the closest interactive counterpart. If instead you want to resume the most recently used session directly without a selection list, agent resume or the global --continue flag is the shorter path.