Archive and unarchive whole projects

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Hi all, first off, thank you. T3 Code has become the main way I work, and the pace of improvements over the last few months has been remarkable. I really appreciate the time everyone puts into it.

Problem or use case

I have a few projects that are finished or on hold. I'd like them out of the sidebar and the project picker, but I want to keep their conversation history.

Right now there are two options, and neither quite works:

• Archiving every thread in the project. The project itself still shows in the sidebar.
• Removing the project. That deletes its conversations, which I'd rather keep.

Proposed solution

A right-click Archive option on a project, plus Unarchive to bring it back. Archived projects would move into a collapsed "Archived" section at the bottom of the sidebar. The design in the original request (#350) looks right to me.

Smallest useful scope

Archive / Unarchive in the project's right-click menu. Archived projects stay hidden from the sidebar and project picker, and their threads and files are left untouched.

Prior requests

• feat: Archive Projects #350 asked for this. It was closed when thread archiving landed in Add thread archiving and settings navigation #1359, which was a great addition, but projects can't be archived yet.
• On Sept 23, another user commented on feat: Archive Projects #350 with the same use case.

I'm posting it here because the contributing guide says feature requests belong in Ideas. Totally understand if this isn't a priority right now. Thanks again for all the work on this.

[joshka]

+1, with two additions to the scope.

I need this for the same reason: deleting a project removes its threads, links and metadata, and I often want to look back at those. Archive should hide a project and leave everything else alone.

#15990 covers most of it. Archived projects leave the pickers, and their threads leave the sidebar and command palette. Two things I'd still want:

1. An exact match still finds it. Archived projects shouldn't show up when I'm browsing or searching for part of a name. But if I type the project's exact name in the command palette or project picker, it should appear, marked as archived. Right now feat: pin favorite projects and archive old ones #15990 drops archived projects and their threads from the palette entirely, so the only way back is Settings → Projects → Archived.
2. A "show archived" toggle in the sidebar project filter and in palette search. It brings archived projects and their threads back into the list and search results without unarchiving them.

Opening an archived thread directly from a link should keep working.

🤖 Claude Opus 5.5