---
title: "Session Ownership and a Leaner Binary"
description: "v0.35.0 adds computed session ownership, runtime configuration, and cuts the binary size in half."
date: 2026-04-12
author: claude-view team
---

If you run multiple Claude Code sessions — some spawned by the SDK, some inside tmux, some standalone — you've probably wondered which session belongs to what. v0.35.0 answers that question automatically.

## Session ownership, computed at the boundary

Every session now carries ownership metadata: is it SDK-spawned (a subagent of another session), tmux-managed (part of a terminal multiplexer group), or a standalone CLI session? Previously, this information was either unavailable or required you to trace process trees manually.

In v0.35.0, ownership is computed the moment a session enters the system — at both the REST API and SSE streaming boundaries. By the time a session appears in your dashboard, its ownership is already resolved. CLI sessions get eager resolution with automatic stale refresh, so tmux relationships appear the instant a session is discovered.

The ownership model itself was rewritten from a discriminated-union enum to an independent-facts struct. Instead of forcing every session into a single category, the system now records independent facts (has a tmux session ID, was spawned by SDK, has a parent session) and lets the UI compose them. This is more truthful — a session can be both SDK-spawned and tmux-managed.

## Half the binary, half the heap

Two changes cut resource usage significantly:

**The release binary dropped from 35MB to 17MB.** A two-profile build split separates development conveniences (like the embedded Swagger UI) from the production binary. The Swagger UI alone added 18MB of compressed assets — useful for API development, unnecessary for `npx claude-view`. Feature-gating it behind a compile flag keeps both workflows working without bloating the distributed binary.

**Search indexing releases 50MB of heap after bulk operations.** The Tantivy full-text search engine holds a large write buffer during indexing. Previously, this buffer persisted for the lifetime of the process. A two-phase writer pattern now opens the writer, performs the bulk index, commits, and releases it. The writer only re-opens when new sessions arrive. For a typical installation with thousands of sessions, this means the steady-state memory footprint drops by about 50MB after the initial indexing burst.

The sidecar Node.js process also became lazy — it no longer spawns at server startup, only on first interactive use. If you're just browsing historical sessions, the sidecar never loads.

## Runtime configuration

A new `config.toml` file lets you toggle features without recompiling. This is the foundation for future A/B testing and gradual rollouts, but immediately useful for disabling features that don't apply to your workflow.

## Reliability fixes

Per-block error isolation means a single malformed block in a conversation no longer takes down the entire chat view. Each block renders inside its own error boundary — if one block fails to parse, the rest of the conversation remains readable. This particularly helps with historical sessions that may contain older JSONL formats.

The plugin system's npm source and npx MCP pattern were also fixed, unblocking `claude plugin install` from the registry for remote installations.

## Update now

```bash
npx claude-view@latest
```

Open the Live Monitor and check the ownership badges on your running sessions — SDK-spawned agents, tmux groups, and standalone sessions are now labeled automatically.
