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Session Restoration

Status: Planned Feature (TBD)

Overview​

Resume previous sessions with full context, continue conversations, and restore interrupted work seamlessly.

Planned Features​

  • Session resume - Continue from where you left off
  • Context restoration - Full conversation history loaded
  • Work recovery - Resume interrupted operations
  • Session branching - Fork session at any point
  • Session merging - Combine insights from multiple sessions
  • Selective restore - Choose parts of session to restore
  • Session search - Find and resume old sessions
  • Auto-resume - Resume last session on startup

Example Workflow​

# Resume last session
grok --resume

# Resume specific session
grok --resume session-2025-11-05-14-30-12

# Resume with summary
grok --resume --summarize

# List resumable sessions
grok sessions list

# Branch from session point
grok sessions branch session-xyz --from-message 15

Roadmap​

  • Q2 2025: Sprint 17-18 - Context management features including session restore

Priority: P1 - User experience enhancement

Current Capabilities​

  • Sessions saved automatically
  • Manual review of session files
  • No built-in resume command
  • Manual context restoration

Workaround​

# Manually resume via summary
cat ~/.grok/sessions/session-2025-11-05-14-30-12.json | jq -r '.messages[-5:] | .[] | .content | .[0:200]'

grok

> Continuing from previous session:
[Paste summary]
Now let's...

Check back Q2 2025 for session restoration.