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Overview

Every conversation in Loop is automatically persisted as a session. Sessions support branching, forking, resuming, full-text search, and export — giving you a complete history of every interaction.

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Storage Backends

Loop supports three session storage backends:

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Resume a Session

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From the Command Line

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Interactive Picker

In the TUI, type:
This opens a picker showing your recent sessions with names, timestamps, and preview snippets.

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Session Tree

Sessions in Loop form a tree structure. Every fork creates a branch, and you can navigate between branches freely.

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Fork a Session

This shows your conversation history and lets you pick a message to fork from. The fork creates a new branch while preserving the original.
Opens the session tree navigator. Browse branches, switch between forks, and see the full history. You can also double-tap Escape for quick tree access (configurable via doubleEscapeAction in settings).

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Clone a Session

Duplicates the current session into a new, independent copy.

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Session Info

View detailed information about the current session:
This displays:
  • Session ID and name
  • Token usage (input, output, cache reads/writes)
  • Estimated cost
  • Cache waste metrics
  • Message count

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Name Your Sessions

Give sessions meaningful names for easier identification in the resume picker.

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Export and Import

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Export

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Import

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Full-Text Search

With the SQLite backend, all session content is indexed for full-text search. Use the resume picker to search across all your past sessions by keyword.

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Compaction

When a conversation grows long, Loop automatically compacts the context to stay within the model’s context window. See Compaction for details.

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Start Fresh

Starts a new session without closing the current one.