Checkpoints

hob saves your workspace state continuously and restores it when you reopen a project — everything comes back exactly as you left it: pane layout, agent conversations, terminal history, and draft input. There's no "Checkpoints" button to find; it's always on.

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 and the view mode (source / preview / diff); scroll position resets to the top
• Draft input — text you were typing but hadn't sent
• Window geometry — size and position, captured at shutdown

How it works

Saving is automatic and debounced, so it never blocks the UI — there's nothing to configure and no manual save step, and no setting to turn it off. State is scoped per project: open a different folder and you get that project's own saved state.

Close your laptop on Friday with three agents mid-conversation, open it Monday morning, and pick up right where you left off.

Reopening a past session

To browse, search, and reopen individual past panes — including ones you closed days ago — use the Activity panel (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+A). Restored sessions open as a preview pane with their full history intact; keep one to make it permanent.

Multiple windows

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