[BUG] VS Code extension not displaying recent sessions (last 1 week) despite files existing on disk

[dbheemavarapu-eng]

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• I have searched existing issues and this hasn't been reported yet
• This is a single bug report (please file separate reports for different bugs)
• I am using the latest version of Claude Code

What's Wrong?

VS Code extension is not displaying sessions from the last week (April 25-26, 2026) in the session history list. However, older sessions from before April 19 are visible.

What Should Happen?

All sessions should appear in the session history list in the VS Code extension sidebar, including recent sessions from the past week.

Error Messages/Logs

From VS Code extension logs (Anthropic.claude-code.Claude VSCode.log):

2026-04-26 23:24:56.032 [info] Keychain read failed, trying file fallback
2026-04-26 23:24:56.032 [warning] No OAuth token available for teleport
2026-04-26 23:24:56.032 [error] Error processing client request: Error: Failed to connect to remote server
2026-04-26 23:24:56.032 [info] Received message from webview: {"type":"interrupt_claude","channelId":"18jmzo972db"}
2026-04-26 23:24:56.032 [warning] Channel not found: 18jmzo972db

Steps to Reproduce

1. Use Claude Code VS Code extension (version 2.1.120) on macOS
2. Have multiple sessions over several weeks
3. Open the Claude Code extension in VS Code
4. Click on the session history/list
5. Observe that sessions from April 19-26, 2026 are missing from the list
6. However, sessions from before April 19 are visible
7. Verified that the missing session files DO exist on disk at:
   ~/.claude/projects/-Users-dbheemavarapu-Documents-VS-Code/

Example missing sessions (files exist but not shown in UI):

• f83134c1-961c-439a-a836-54739c45bd48.jsonl (Apr 26 23:45)
• 1ea29f47-b8e4-49c7-b15d-2e9d8fb92ae2.jsonl (Apr 26 23:24)
• 395d5f6c-10cb-450e-be83-cba1f6bfda19.jsonl (Apr 26 23:20)

Troubleshooting attempted:

• Reloaded VS Code window
• Cleared cache (rm -rf ~/.claude/cache/)
• Created missing directory (mkdir -p ~/.claude/plugins/cache)
• Restarted VS Code completely
• Issue persists

Claude Model

Sonnet (default)

Is this a regression?

I don't know

Last Working Version

No response

Claude Code Version

2.1.120

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

No response

[github-actions]

Found 3 possible duplicate issues:

1. VS Code extension session list missing sessions that exist on disk #44625
2. --resume can't find recent sessions — sessions-index.json not created/updated since January #44346
3. [BUG] /resume shows only stale sessions — recent sessions missing (v2.1.89, no sessions-index.json) #42030

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