Checkpoints

Every time you close hob, your workspace state is saved. When you reopen the same project, everything comes back exactly as you left it — pane layout, agent conversations, terminal history, and draft input.

What's saved

• Layout — pane positions, sizes, and which workspace is active
• Agent conversations — full history including thinking blocks and tool calls
• Terminal history — all commands and their output
• Render panes — which files are open, scroll position, diff mode
• Draft input — text you were typing but hadn't sent yet
• Window geometry — size and position of the app window

How it works

Checkpoints are automatic. Every state change — creating a pane, resizing, switching workspaces, sending a message — is saved as it happens. There's nothing to configure and no manual save step.

When you open a project, hob restores the last known state for that project. Close your laptop on Friday with three agents mid-conversation, open it Monday morning, and pick up right where you left off.

Restoring past sessions

The Activity panel (Cmd+Shift+H or Ctrl+Shift+H) shows a chronological list of all past panes — agents and terminals. Browse the list and click any entry to restore it.

This is useful when you:

• Closed a pane by accident
• Want to revisit a conversation from a few days ago
• Need to reference how you solved a similar problem before

Multi-window

If you run multiple hob windows, each one saves and restores independently. On restart, each window returns to its own layout and workspace state.