New Claude Session At Path

Spawn a sibling Claude Code session in a new Konsole window at an arbitrary directory the user specifies. Companion to new-claude-here (which uses $PWD) — use this one when the target is somewhere else on disk.

Inputs

• Target path — absolute path, or a path relative to the current repo. Required. If the user hasn't given one, ask. Expand ~ and resolve to an absolute path before launching.
• Seed prompt (optional) — an initial prompt or slash command to run in the new session (e.g. /brainstorm-solutions:deep-research). Passed as a positional argument to claude.
• Self-destruct (optional) — if the caller says "close this one", "self-destruct", or "hand off", close the current Konsole after the new one is verified. Default: keep current open.

Steps

1. Resolve and verify target

target=$(readlink -f "<given-path>")
[ -d "$target" ] || { echo "not a directory: $target"; exit 1; }

2. Launch new session

IMPORTANT: When passing a seed prompt, wrap claude in bash -c so that Konsole sets the working directory correctly before Claude starts. Without this wrapper, Claude may open in the wrong directory.

If a seed prompt is provided:

setsid konsole --workdir "$target" -e bash -c 'claude "<seed-prompt>"' >/dev/null 2>&1 &

Otherwise:

setsid konsole --workdir "$target" -e claude >/dev/null 2>&1 &

setsid + background detaches so the new window survives the current session exiting.

3. Self-destruct (if requested)

If the caller requested self-destruct, follow the same pattern as new-claude-here:

1. Snapshot existing Konsole PIDs: before=$(pgrep -x konsole).
2. Verify a new Konsole PID appeared after launch.
3. If verified, warn the user and close the current Konsole:

   (sleep 3 && kill -TERM $(ps -o ppid= -p $PPID | tr -d ' ')) &

4. If no new PID appeared, ABORT — do not close anything.

4. Report

Tell the user:

• The absolute path the new session was launched in
• Whether a seed prompt was passed
• If self-destruct is pending

Notes

• The new session is standalone — no shared memory with this one.
• For full context transfer without Junction, run session-transfer:write-handover first.
• Do not block waiting on the Konsole process.