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Add toggle to show all sessions unscoped in /resume picker (bypass cwd/repo relevance grouping) #4554

Description

@mu88

Problem

The /resume (and --resume) session picker scopes/groups sessions by relevance to the current working directory (branch/repo/git-root/directory, per #3277). In practice this means a session started in a different directory can be effectively invisible in the default picker list, even though it is very recent and fully resumable directly via /resume <session-id>.

Example:

  • Session 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 (cwd C:\work\some-other-project, last updated same day) does not appear when running /resume from an unrelated cwd (C:\work).
  • /resume 11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 resumes it without any issue.

This is confusing: there is no indication that sessions are being filtered/deprioritized, so a session can appear "lost" when it's actually just scoped out of view.

Proposed solution

Add an explicit way to toggle off the directory/repo-based scoping in the /resume picker, so users can reliably see all local sessions regardless of cwd when needed. For example:

Why this matters

Relevance-based grouping is a nice default, but without an escape hatch it becomes an anti-feature: users lose confidence that /resume shows everything, and have to already know/remember a session ID to resume sessions from other directories.

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