Terminal Sessions vs Terminal Workspaces

A terminal session is a connection. A terminal workspace is a persistent environment you can resume across time.

Sessions

• tied to a connection,
• reset when the connection drops,
• no output replay for offline gaps.

Workspaces

• tied to durable session identity,
• survive disconnects,
• replay output on reconnect.

Why the distinction matters

If you treat your terminal as a session, you lose work every time the connection blips. If you treat it as a workspace, continuity becomes normal.

Link up

• Always-On Terminal Workspace: /always-on-terminal-workspace/
• Session Persistence & Output Replay: /session-persistence-output-replay/
• Phone Terminal Codex: /phone-terminal-codex/

Related reads

• /what-is-a-terminal-workspace/
• /resume-terminal-after-disconnect/