Problem
Two related pain points when working with multiple sessions in the terminal:
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Sessions forked from the same conversation are hard to tell apart. When I fork a conversation to explore different features or tasks, and later switch between those sessions in the same terminal (/sessions, kimi --session), the entries look almost identical — same working directory, similar first prompts. It is easy to resume the wrong session.
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The current session's title is invisible while you work. Even after renaming a session with /title, the TUI status bar (which shows the working directory and git branch) never displays the title. Inside a session there is no persistent on-screen indicator telling me which conversation I am actually in.
Proposal
Add a session-only display toggle for the footer status bar:
/titleon — show the current session title in the footer, right after the working directory and git branch badge, e.g. ~/work/kimi-code main fix-auth-flow/titleoff — hide it again (the default)
Behavior details:
- Session-only, not persisted: the toggle resets on session switch /
/new / fork / logout, but survives /reload within the same session.
- The title is truncated to 40 display columns (width-aware, so CJK titles are capped correctly) with
…, so it cannot crowd out the rest of the status bar; it uses the existing two-space separator and the same dim color as the cwd.
- Renaming with
/title updates the footer live.
- No git repo → the title simply follows the cwd segment.
Why two new commands instead of /title on|off?
/title <text> currently sets the title verbatim, so /title on is ambiguous — it already means "set the title to on". A dedicated pair /titleon / /titleoff avoids that ambiguity. If maintainers prefer a different shape (a single toggle command, or a /title subcommand with disambiguated syntax), I am happy to adjust — feedback welcome.
I have a complete implementation ready (with unit tests, lifecycle tests, changeset, and en/zh docs updates) and will open a PR referencing this issue.
Problem
Two related pain points when working with multiple sessions in the terminal:
Sessions forked from the same conversation are hard to tell apart. When I fork a conversation to explore different features or tasks, and later switch between those sessions in the same terminal (
/sessions,kimi --session), the entries look almost identical — same working directory, similar first prompts. It is easy to resume the wrong session.The current session's title is invisible while you work. Even after renaming a session with
/title, the TUI status bar (which shows the working directory and git branch) never displays the title. Inside a session there is no persistent on-screen indicator telling me which conversation I am actually in.Proposal
Add a session-only display toggle for the footer status bar:
/titleon— show the current session title in the footer, right after the working directory and git branch badge, e.g.~/work/kimi-code main fix-auth-flow/titleoff— hide it again (the default)Behavior details:
/new/ fork / logout, but survives/reloadwithin the same session.…, so it cannot crowd out the rest of the status bar; it uses the existing two-space separator and the same dim color as the cwd./titleupdates the footer live.Why two new commands instead of
/title on|off?/title <text>currently sets the title verbatim, so/title onis ambiguous — it already means "set the title toon". A dedicated pair/titleon//titleoffavoids that ambiguity. If maintainers prefer a different shape (a single toggle command, or a/titlesubcommand with disambiguated syntax), I am happy to adjust — feedback welcome.I have a complete implementation ready (with unit tests, lifecycle tests, changeset, and en/zh docs updates) and will open a PR referencing this issue.