Add chat recording toggle (CLI + settings) and disable recording in tests

packages/cli/src/config/config.ts

@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ export interface CliArgs {
   inputFormat?: string | undefined;
   outputFormat: string | undefined;
   includePartialMessages?: boolean;
+  /**
+   * If chat recording is disabled, the chat history would not be recorded,
+   * so --continue and --resume would not take effect.
+   */
+  chatRecording: boolean | undefined;
   /** Resume the most recent session for the current project */
   continue: boolean | undefined;
   /** Resume a specific session by its ID */
@@ -233,6 +238,11 @@ export async function parseArguments(settings: Settings): Promise<CliArgs> {
       'proxy',
       'Use the "proxy" setting in settings.json instead. This flag will be removed in a future version.',
     )
+    .option('chat-recording', {
+      type: 'boolean',
+      description:
+        'Enable chat recording to disk. If false, chat history is not saved and --continue/--resume will not work.',
+    })
     .command('$0 [query..]', 'Launch Qwen Code CLI', (yargsInstance: Argv) =>
       yargsInstance
         .positional('query', {
@@ -996,6 +1006,11 @@ export async function loadCliConfig(
       format: outputSettingsFormat,
     },
     channel: argv.channel,
+    // Precedence: explicit CLI flag > settings file > default(true).
+    // NOTE: do NOT set a yargs default for `chat-recording`, otherwise argv will
+    // always be true and the settings file can never disable recording.
+    chatRecording:
+      argv.chatRecording ?? settings.general?.chatRecording ?? true,
   });
 }
 

packages/cli/src/config/settingsSchema.ts

@@ -204,6 +204,16 @@ const SETTINGS_SCHEMA = {
           'Play terminal bell sound when response completes or needs approval.',
         showInDialog: true,
       },
+      chatRecording: {
+        type: 'boolean',
+        label: 'Chat Recording',
+        category: 'General',
+        requiresRestart: true,
+        default: true,
+        description:
+          'Enable saving chat history to disk. Disabling this will also prevent --continue and --resume from working.',
+        showInDialog: false,
+      },
     },
   },
   output: {