Claude Code: continue sessions and rewind changes
Made a mess in Claude Code? Use /rewind to roll back edits and conversation step by step, then resume any past session right where you left off.
Three small Claude Code tricks I use every day.
Continue the last session
Picks up exactly where you left off — same context, same history.
claude --continue
# or the short form
claude -c
Resume an older session
Opens a picker with your past sessions (from days or weeks ago) so you can jump back into any of them. The picker matches on the session name too, so if you name sessions after the Jira ticket you’re working on, the right one is a keystroke away.
claude --resume
# or
claude -r
Rewind changes
If Claude went down the wrong path, press Esc twice (Esc Esc) to rewind the conversation to an earlier point. You can also use the /rewind slash command. This undoes the messages and the file edits made since then, so you don’t have to clean up by hand. Rewinding rolls back to an earlier point; when you’d rather keep the current thread intact and try an alternative in parallel, fork the session instead.
That’s it — three shortcuts that save a lot of time.