diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a4e4319d..3b1afe5c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Added
 
+- **A session can find out its own name.** `lich whoami` prints the session the
+  command runs in, with its label and lich id, which `lich sessions` leaves out.
+  Every command and tool that takes a session (`send`, `close`, `rename`,
+  `control`, `ask`, `file`) now also accepts that id in place of the label.
 - **Each notification under the bell has an X that dismisses it.** Clearing
   one used to mean opening its session; a finished turn you dismiss also counts
   as read.
diff --git a/docs/cli.md b/docs/cli.md
index d0b0520b..ef1f6bb8 100644
--- a/docs/cli.md
+++ b/docs/cli.md
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ guess at the one it resembles, and exit 1 — a typo does not open a window.
 Arguments the app itself takes still do: bare `lich`, `lich --shell <path>`, and
 `lich --` with the Chromium flags behind it.
 
-`--json` on `sessions`, `send`, `wait`, `open`, `close`, `rename`, `control`, `ask`, `worktrees`, `folders`, `file`,
+`--json` on `sessions`, `whoami`, `send`, `wait`, `open`, `close`, `rename`, `control`, `ask`, `worktrees`, `folders`, `file`,
 `rename-folder`, `color-folder`, `cost` and `version`
 replaces the prose with one JSON line: the peer array, the result object and the session
 object exactly as this document describes them. An empty roster is `[]`, never
@@ -174,6 +174,22 @@ hook (`docs/hooks/session-state.md`), and it is the same thing its card shows:
   Claude Code, and a session that has not had a turn yet has said nothing
   either), so an empty state says nothing about whether that session is free.
 
+### `lich whoami [--json]`
+
+Prints the session the command runs in: the one entry `sessions` never lists.
+Same columns as `sessions`, plus the lich id:
+
+```
+session	project	provider	name	state	id
+auth-fix	lich	claude	lich-a1b2	busy	0b9c…
+```
+
+`--json` prints one object in the `sessions` shape,
+`{"label","name","project","kind","state","id"}`. It is how a caller learns its
+own label and id without guessing: lich-plugin's Claude Code mod reads it to
+tell that a `control` aimed at a label is aimed at its own session. Run outside
+a lich session (`LICH_SESSION_ID` unset) it is an error, exit 1.
+
 ### `lich send [--project <name>] [--timeout <seconds>] [--private] [--json] <session> <prompt>`
 
 Types `<prompt>` at `<session>`'s prompt, submits it, and waits.
@@ -193,6 +209,11 @@ collected is typed as usual.
   and lich reads it back off the session's own record, so both sides go on
   naming it the same thing; the name lich derived at spawn stops addressing it,
   exactly as it stops addressing it in `/list-agents`.
+- `<session>` can also be the session's lich id (`id` in `sessions --json`,
+  `LICH_SESSION_ID` in its process). It is matched before either name. The same
+  holds for every command that takes a `<session>`: `close`, `rename`,
+  `control`, `ask` and `file` resolve it the same way, and a caller naming
+  itself by id gets exactly what naming itself by label gets.
 - Labels are unique within a project, not across them: a label two live sessions
   answer to is an error naming both, and `--project` is what narrows it.
   Guessing which session a prompt lands in is the one mistake this must not
diff --git a/internal/cli/ask.go b/internal/cli/ask.go
index 430b792e..f2b3393e 100644
--- a/internal/cli/ask.go
+++ b/internal/cli/ask.go
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ var askTools = []mcpTool{
 			"answer. Claude Code sessions only, and never your own.",
 		Schema: schema(map[string]any{
 			"session": property("string",
-				"The session to ask, by the label on its card or the name it answers to."),
+				"The session to ask, by the label on its card, the name it answers to or its lich id."),
 			"question": property("string", "The question."),
 			"project": property("string",
 				"Project to narrow to, by name or by directory path, when the same label "+
diff --git a/internal/cli/cli.go b/internal/cli/cli.go
index fd3edc79..a03f0eb0 100644
--- a/internal/cli/cli.go
+++ b/internal/cli/cli.go
@@ -138,6 +138,8 @@ func dispatch(args []string, c *client) int {
 	switch args[0] {
 	case "sessions":
 		return c.run(c.sessions, args[1:])
+	case "whoami":
+		return c.run(c.whoami, args[1:])
 	case "send":
 		return c.run(c.send, args[1:])
 	case "wait":
@@ -297,6 +299,29 @@ func (c *client) sessions(args []string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+func (c *client) whoami(args []string) error {
+	flags := newFlagSet("whoami")
+	asJSON := flags.Bool("json", false, "print the result as JSON")
+	if err := c.parse(flags, args); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if flags.NArg() != 0 {
+		return usageError("whoami")
+	}
+
+	var self relay.Peer
+	if err := c.call(context.Background(), "relay.Self", []any{c.sessionID()}, shortCall, &self); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if *asJSON {
+		return c.emit(self)
+	}
+	fmt.Fprintln(c.stdout, "session\tproject\tprovider\tname\tstate\tid")
+	fmt.Fprintf(c.stdout, "%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\t%s\n",
+		self.Label, self.Project, self.Kind, self.Name, sessionState(self.State), self.ID)
+	return nil
+}
+
 // sessionState words a peer's state for the table. A session that has reported
 // nothing gets a dash rather than a blank cell: the column is never empty by
 // accident, and "not reported" is a different thing from a session sitting
diff --git a/internal/cli/cli_test.go b/internal/cli/cli_test.go
index 3caf49a4..01088d00 100644
--- a/internal/cli/cli_test.go
+++ b/internal/cli/cli_test.go
@@ -289,6 +289,36 @@ func TestSessionsJSONCarriesTheLichID(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// whoami is the one entry sessions leaves out, asked for by the caller's own id.
+func TestWhoamiPrintsTheCallersOwnSession(t *testing.T) {
+	f := newFakeLich(t, `{"label":"Session 3","name":"lich-s1","project":"lich","kind":"claude","state":"busy","id":"s1"}`)
+
+	code, stdout, stderr := run(t, f, "whoami")
+	if code != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("exit = %d, stderr = %q", code, stderr)
+	}
+	call := f.only(t)
+	if call.method != "relay.Self" || len(call.args) != 1 || call.args[0] != "s1" {
+		t.Errorf("called %s %v, want relay.Self with the caller's own id", call.method, call.args)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(stdout, "Session 3\tlich\tclaude\tlich-s1\tbusy\ts1") {
+		t.Errorf("output = %q", stdout)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWhoamiJSONIsThePeerObject(t *testing.T) {
+	body := `{"label":"Session 3","name":"lich-s1","project":"lich","kind":"claude","state":"","id":"s1"}`
+	f := newFakeLich(t, body)
+
+	code, stdout, stderr := run(t, f, "whoami", "--json")
+	if code != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("exit = %d, stderr = %q", code, stderr)
+	}
+	if strings.TrimSpace(stdout) != body {
+		t.Errorf("output = %s, want %s", stdout, body)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSessionsSaysWhenThereAreNone(t *testing.T) {
 	f := newFakeLich(t, `[]`)
 
diff --git a/internal/cli/control.go b/internal/cli/control.go
index cc7db585..d5bf5530 100644
--- a/internal/cli/control.go
+++ b/internal/cli/control.go
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ var controlTools = []mcpTool{
 			"every new session.",
 		Schema: schema(map[string]any{
 			"session": property("string",
-				"The session to drive, by the label on its card or the name it answers to."),
+				"The session to drive, by the label on its card, the name it answers to or its lich id."),
 			"action": property("string", "One of prompt, abort, model, effort, command."),
 			"value": property("string",
 				"prompt: the text (required). model: the model name, or omit to go back to the "+
diff --git a/internal/cli/folders.go b/internal/cli/folders.go
index 6b801f83..43c00d17 100644
--- a/internal/cli/folders.go
+++ b/internal/cli/folders.go
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ var folderTools = []mcpTool{
 				"Folder to file the session under, exactly as list_folders names it, or a new "+
 					"name. An empty string takes the session out of its folder."),
 			"session": property("string",
-				"Session to file, by the label on its card or the name it answers to. Omit to "+
+				"Session to file, by the label on its card, the name it answers to or its lich id. Omit to "+
 					"file the session you are running in."),
 			"project": property("string",
 				"Project to narrow to, by name or by directory path, when the same label "+
diff --git a/internal/cli/help.go b/internal/cli/help.go
index 7b4588bd..45dd35ce 100644
--- a/internal/cli/help.go
+++ b/internal/cli/help.go
@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ var commands = []command{
 		args:  "[--json]",
 		about: "List the live sessions that can be reached.",
 	},
+	{
+		name: "whoami",
+		args: "[--json]",
+		about: "Print the session this command runs in, which `sessions` never lists:\n" +
+			"its label, project, provider, roster name, state and lich id.",
+	},
 	{
 		name: "send",
 		args: "[--project <name>] [--timeout <seconds>] [--private] [--json] <session> <prompt>",
diff --git a/internal/cli/mcp.go b/internal/cli/mcp.go
index 31ac04cc..88d26c99 100644
--- a/internal/cli/mcp.go
+++ b/internal/cli/mcp.go
@@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ var mcpTools = append([]mcpTool{
 			"own messaging tool instead of this one.",
 		Schema: schema(map[string]any{
 			"session": property("string",
-				"Label of the target session, exactly as list_sessions returns it. Not a peer-roster name."),
+				"Label of the target session, exactly as list_sessions returns it, or its id from there."),
 			"prompt": property("string",
 				"What to ask that session's agent to do. Capped at 8 KB: it is typed at a "+
 					"terminal prompt, so name the paths, branches and commits to read rather "+
@@ -573,7 +573,7 @@ var mcpTools = append([]mcpTool{
 			"you are running in.",
 		Schema: schema(map[string]any{
 			"session": property("string",
-				"The session to close, by the label on its card or the name it answers to."),
+				"The session to close, by the label on its card, the name it answers to or its lich id."),
 			"project": property("string",
 				"Project to narrow to, by name or by directory path, when the same label "+
 					"exists in more than one."),
@@ -606,7 +606,7 @@ var mcpTools = append([]mcpTool{
 		Schema: schema(map[string]any{
 			"label": property("string", "The new name for the card."),
 			"session": property("string",
-				"Session to rename, by the label on its card or the name it answers to. "+
+				"Session to rename, by the label on its card, the name it answers to or its lich id. "+
 					"Omit to rename the session you are running in."),
 			"project": property("string",
 				"Project to narrow to, by name or by directory path, when the same label "+
diff --git a/internal/relay/relay_test.go b/internal/relay/relay_test.go
index d5d3451d..17f43112 100644
--- a/internal/relay/relay_test.go
+++ b/internal/relay/relay_test.go
@@ -2966,3 +2966,58 @@ func TestAnInterruptedTargetIsNotBusy(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal("a session whose turn was interrupted still read as working")
 	}
 }
+
+// The lich id is a third address for a session, beside its two names: it is the
+// one a plugin already holds (LICH_SESSION_ID, lich whoami), and the one no
+// rename moves.
+func TestSendReachesASessionByItsID(t *testing.T) {
+	term := newFakeTerminal("s1", "s5")
+	svc := newRelay(workspace(), term, nil)
+
+	go func() { _ = svc.Reply("", waitForTicket(svc), "ok") }()
+	got, err := svc.Send(context.Background(), "s1", "s5", "", "hello", 30)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Send by id: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got.Target != "api" || term.written("s5") == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("Send = %+v, want it typed at s5 under its label", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A caller naming itself by id is refused exactly as by label: the roster never
+// holds the caller, whichever name it is looked up by.
+func TestSendRefusesTheCallersOwnIDLikeItsLabel(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := newRelay(workspace(), newFakeTerminal("s1", "s2"), nil)
+
+	_, byLabel := svc.Send(context.Background(), "s1", "sender", "", "hello", 30)
+	_, byID := svc.Send(context.Background(), "s1", "s1", "", "hello", 30)
+	if byLabel == nil || byID == nil {
+		t.Fatalf("byLabel = %v, byID = %v, want both refused", byLabel, byID)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(byID.Error(), "no live session named") {
+		t.Errorf("by id: %v, want the refusal the label gets (%v)", byID, byLabel)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSelfIsTheCallersOwnEntry(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := newRelay(workspace(), newFakeTerminal("s1", "s2"), nil)
+
+	got, err := svc.Self("s1")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Self: %v", err)
+	}
+	want := Peer{Label: "sender", Name: "lich-s1", Project: "lich", Kind: "claude", ID: "s1"}
+	if got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("Self = %+v, want %+v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestSelfRefusesACallerWithoutASession(t *testing.T) {
+	svc := newRelay(workspace(), newFakeTerminal("s1"), nil)
+
+	for id, want := range map[string]string{"": "LICH_SESSION_ID is unset", "gone": `no session with id "gone"`} {
+		if _, err := svc.Self(id); err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), want) {
+			t.Errorf("Self(%q) err = %v, want one saying %q", id, err, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/relay/roster.go b/internal/relay/roster.go
index 1cf12b80..68f776d4 100644
--- a/internal/relay/roster.go
+++ b/internal/relay/roster.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package relay
 
 import (
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
@@ -32,26 +33,48 @@ func (s *Service) roster(fromID string) ([]candidate, error) {
 			if sess.ID == fromID || !s.term.Live(sess.ID) {
 				continue
 			}
-			cwd := sess.Path
-			if cwd == "" {
-				cwd = p.Path
-			}
-			found = append(found, candidate{
-				ID: sess.ID,
-				Peer: Peer{
-					Label:   sess.Label,
-					Name:    RosterNameOf(s.term.AgentName(sess.ID), cwd, sess.ID),
-					Project: p.Name,
-					Kind:    sess.Kind,
-					State:   s.reportedState(sess.ID),
-					ID:      sess.ID,
-				},
-			})
+			found = append(found, candidate{ID: sess.ID, Peer: s.peerOf(p, sess)})
 		}
 	}
 	return found, nil
 }
 
+// Self is the caller's own entry, in the shape Peers lists everybody else's: the
+// one session the roster never shows it. It does not ask whether a process is
+// running there, since the caller asking is that process.
+func (s *Service) Self(id string) (Peer, error) {
+	if id == "" {
+		return Peer{}, errors.New("not running in a lich session (LICH_SESSION_ID is unset)")
+	}
+	projects, err := s.sessions.LoadState()
+	if err != nil {
+		return Peer{}, fmt.Errorf("read sessions: %w", err)
+	}
+	for _, p := range projects {
+		for _, sess := range p.Sessions {
+			if sess.ID == id {
+				return s.peerOf(p, sess), nil
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return Peer{}, fmt.Errorf("lich has no session with id %q (LICH_SESSION_ID)", id)
+}
+
+func (s *Service) peerOf(p store.Project, sess store.Session) Peer {
+	cwd := sess.Path
+	if cwd == "" {
+		cwd = p.Path
+	}
+	return Peer{
+		Label:   sess.Label,
+		Name:    RosterNameOf(s.term.AgentName(sess.ID), cwd, sess.ID),
+		Project: p.Name,
+		Kind:    sess.Kind,
+		State:   s.reportedState(sess.ID),
+		ID:      sess.ID,
+	}
+}
+
 // reportedState is what a session last told lich it was doing, empty when it
 // has told lich nothing. Taken under the lock because reports arrive on the
 // hook handler's own goroutines while a roster is being built.
@@ -75,11 +98,15 @@ func (s *Service) resolve(fromID, target, project string) (candidate, error) {
 		return candidate{}, err
 	}
 
-	// The label first, then the roster name. Both address this session, and an
-	// agent may have been handed either — a mention writes the roster name at
+	// The id first: it names one session and no name can be spelled like it.
+	// Then the label, then the roster name. Both names address this session, and
+	// an agent may have been handed either — a mention writes the roster name at
 	// the prompt, list_sessions prints both. The label wins a tie because it is
 	// the name the user chose and the one every message and error quotes.
-	matches := matching(found, target, project, func(c candidate) string { return c.Peer.Label })
+	matches := matching(found, target, project, func(c candidate) string { return c.ID })
+	if len(matches) == 0 {
+		matches = matching(found, target, project, func(c candidate) string { return c.Peer.Label })
+	}
 	if len(matches) == 0 {
 		matches = matching(found, target, project, func(c candidate) string { return c.Peer.Name })
 	}
diff --git a/internal/spawn/close.go b/internal/spawn/close.go
index 0479d49a..f02ab3ac 100644
--- a/internal/spawn/close.go
+++ b/internal/spawn/close.go
@@ -238,9 +238,11 @@ type located struct {
 	session store.Session
 }
 
-// findSession resolves a session by the label on its card or the name it answers
-// to in the peer roster, exactly as the relay does — an agent holding either
-// should not have to know which one it has. The label is tried first and wins a
+// findSession resolves a session by its lich id, the label on its card or the
+// name it answers to in the peer roster, exactly as the relay does — an agent
+// holding any of them should not have to know which one it has. An id names one
+// session and nothing else can be spelled like one, so it is matched before the
+// names. The label is tried next and wins a
 // tie against another session's roster name, because that is how `lich send`
 // reads the same name (relay.resolve); one product cannot disagree with itself
 // about which session a name addresses.
@@ -275,6 +277,9 @@ func findSession(
 			continue
 		}
 		for _, sess := range p.Sessions {
+			if sess.ID == target {
+				return located{project: p, session: sess}, nil
+			}
 			cwd := sess.Path
 			if cwd == "" {
 				cwd = p.Path
diff --git a/internal/spawn/control_test.go b/internal/spawn/control_test.go
index 58ea96c9..eb1d54cd 100644
--- a/internal/spawn/control_test.go
+++ b/internal/spawn/control_test.go
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ func TestControlRefusesBeforeReachingTheSession(t *testing.T) {
 		{"another CLI", "s1", "codex-run", "abort", "", "", "only a Claude Code session"},
 		{"another CLI, by the name the user knows it by", "s1", "pi-run", "abort", "", "", `"pi-run" runs oh-my-pi,`},
 		{"the caller itself", "s1", "Session 3", "abort", "", "", "cannot control itself"},
+		{"the caller itself, by its id", "s1", "s1", "abort", "", "", `"Session 3" is this session, and a session cannot control itself`},
 		{"a value on an abort", "s1", "auth-fix", "abort", "now", "", "takes nothing after it"},
 		{"args on a prompt", "s1", "auth-fix", "prompt", "go", "x", "only a command takes arguments"},
 		{"an empty prompt", "s1", "auth-fix", "prompt", " ", "", "needs its text"},
@@ -87,6 +88,17 @@ func TestControlRefusesBeforeReachingTheSession(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestControlReachesASessionByItsID(t *testing.T) {
+	svc, term := newControlService(t)
+	got, err := svc.Control(context.Background(), "s1", "s2", "", "abort", "", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Control: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got.Label != "auth-fix" || len(term.ranOn) != 1 || term.ranOn[0] != "s2" {
+		t.Fatalf("Control = %+v on %v, want auth-fix on s2", got, term.ranOn)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestControlReportsHowFarTheCommandGot(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, state := range []string{ControlDelivered, ControlEnded} {
 		t.Run(state, func(t *testing.T) {