---
title: Resuming sessions
description: Resuming sessions when Heed starts, and the continue prompt.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/sessions/resume
---

# Resuming sessions
When Heed starts, the sessions that were open come back. Whether their agents resume is up to `resume_on_launch`
under `[sessions]`:

| Value    | On launch                                                                              |
|----------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `ask`    | List the sessions that were open and let you pick which agents to resume (the default) |
| `always` | Resume them all                                                                        |
| `never`  | Open plain shells; resume by hand                                                      |

![The resume dialog: sessions that were open, which can resume, and which agent sessions are gone](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/images/shots/sessions/resume.png)
Resuming uses each agent's own resume (`claude --resume <id>`, `codex resume <id>`, …) with the session id Heed kept.
If the agent no longer has that session, Heed says so and starts the agent fresh with the original prompt.

## The continue prompt

A session that was mid-turn when Heed quit gets a nudge once its agent is idle again: `continue_prompt`, by default
"Continue where you left off.". Set it to `""` to turn it off.