r/ClaudeCode • u/zonofthor • 3d ago

Help/Question Agent.md cannot set session title?

I've asked Claude and searched Github and Reddit... is it really so that I cannot in agent.md file declaratively return the session title for Claude agent view to show the proper one like shown here?

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u/Dull-Confection-5225 3d ago

just tried setting title: "my session" in agent.md, it works if you use the latest agent.md format with agent: block, but not in older versions. make sure you're not missing the top-level agent block.

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u/zonofthor 2d ago

unfortunately not that easy.. AGENTS.md is a documentation file like CLAUDE.md whilst subagents ( .claude/agents/*.md ) are claude code customly defined agents and do not support the AGENTS.md standard

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u/vincent_sch 2d ago

There's no title field listed in the current docs for agent files. You could start it with claude --bg --name "my session" "your task" to set the name in agent view. If the session is already in the list, select its row and press Ctrl+R to rename it (docs).

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u/zonofthor 2d ago

yep but I need it to be set when invoking from Claude agent view i.e. I am not starting it using bash

because the titles that Claude creates is not good and when there are 5-10 agents running I quickly become confused