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Ghost remote sessions persist in "Remote Control" panel with no way to dismiss them #73675

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@yoshovski

Summary

Two dead sessions remain listed in the desktop app's Remote Control panel indefinitely. They cannot be dismissed: hovering a row only offers "End session" for active sessions, and these ghosts have no active session behind them.

Environment

  • Claude Desktop 1.18286.0 (Electron 42.5.1)
  • macOS (Darwin 25.5.0)

Symptom

  • The Remote Control panel shows two rows: workspace — <project>, each stuck at 0 of 32.
  • Both point at the same workspace/host and appear to be orphaned remote-session records left over after the underlying sessions ended.

What I tried

  • Full quit (killall Claude) + relaunch — the entries come back.
  • Deleted the matching local claude-code-sessions/*.json records, then relaunched — no effect.
  • Verified the entries are not stored in any local store: Local Storage leveldb, IndexedDB, config.json, claude_desktop_config.json. The list appears to be re-fetched from the server on each launch, which is why local deletion / cache clearing does nothing.
  • Hovering a row offers "End session" only when a session is active; for these ghosts there is no delete / remove / disconnect control.

Expected

A way to remove or dismiss an orphaned remote session whose backing process no longer exists — e.g. a per-row remove control, or automatic server-side expiry of dead sessions.

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