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Support copilot --resume "<query>" for natural-language session lookup #3615

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@ilonatommy

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Support using copilot --resume with a natural-language query to find a past session when I do not know the session ID or when session names are vague, duplicated, or not meaningful. Today, if multiple sessions begin with similar prompts or were never renamed, copilot --resume is not very helpful for finding the right conversation. My current workaround is to keep a separate "search-history" session and ask Copilot things like "find me the conversation about PR # 1234". That works, but it is indirect and inconvenient.

Proposed solution

copilot --resume "conversation about PR #id"

Output is a list:
sessionId1 | Short description | confidence %
sessionId2 | Short description | confidence %

Example prompts or workflows

  • copilot --resume "conversation about PR #1234"
  • copilot --resume "session where we debugged the auth token refresh bug"
  • copilot --resume "discussion about payments API refactor"
  • copilot --resume "the conversation where we edited src/auth/login.ts"
  • copilot --resume "session about the failing CI job on Windows"

Additional context

If I was talking about issue #id in the context of design in one conversation, in another I was developing the fix for the same issue and in the 3rd I was reviewing an old PR submitted as a fix to the same issue, I might have multiple conversations starting with same prompt "fetch issue #id" around the same time and using `copilot --resume" doesn't help me enough. I would have to open each session and read through the messages or name them meaningfully.

Might be related: #714

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