Claude Code's /clear forks the conversation to a new session-id, which
clide's transcript reader (pinned to the spawn --session-id) can't
follow — so after /clear the pane froze on the old transcript and looked
dead. clide now owns /clear: it's intercepted in the composer's send
path (never forwarded to tmux), tears the pane's session down, and
respawns a fresh empty one. A new session-id is forced even for the
primary so it starts empty rather than resuming the old transcript;
_spawn's self-heal kills the stale tmux session. The old transcript is
left on disk.
Known follow-up (T-156): /resume and /compact have the same forking
problem but need different handling (a session picker, not a wipe).
T-156.
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