diff --git a/scripts/claude-statusline-command.sh b/scripts/claude-statusline-command.sh
index 671dc06..69b26ea 100755
--- a/scripts/claude-statusline-command.sh
+++ b/scripts/claude-statusline-command.sh
@@ -141,9 +141,25 @@ if command -v postbox >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   # "no mail" -- the exact conflation v3 exists to prevent.
   export ALTHING_POST_OFFICE="${ALTHING_POST_OFFICE:-http://10.100.50.40:8390}"
   h="${ALTHING_HANDLE:-}"
-  # ALTHING_HANDLE isn't set in the statusline env — resolve the per-project handle
-  # from althing's session map, keyed by the cwd Claude Code passes on stdin.
-  [ -z "$h" ] && [ -n "$cwd" ] && h=$(jq -r --arg d "$cwd" '.[$d] // empty' "$HOME/.althing/session_handles.json" 2>/dev/null)
+  # ALTHING_HANDLE isn't set in the statusline env, so resolve the handle from the
+  # cwd Claude Code passes on stdin.
+  #
+  # ⚠ PREFER launch-history.json. session_handles.json is a **v2 artifact** — v3's
+  # postbox never opens it (`grep -rn session_handles althing/` is empty; resolve_config
+  # takes --handle then ALTHING_HANDLE and nothing else), and the tool that used to
+  # maintain it, `althing-cli use`, was deleted at the cutover. Whatever is in it now is
+  # hand-kept and drifts silently.
+  #
+  # launch-history.json is written by dev_launch, which is the thing that sets
+  # ALTHING_HANDLE in the first place, so it is the real cwd->handle binding. Shape is
+  # {cwd: {command: {at, handle}}} with several commands per directory (claude, kimi,
+  # grok), so take the most recent by `at` rather than whichever key sorts first.
+  if [ -z "$h" ] && [ -n "$cwd" ]; then
+    h=$(jq -r --arg d "$cwd" '(.[$d] // {}) | to_entries | max_by(.value.at) | .value.handle // empty' \
+          "$HOME/.althing/launch-history.json" 2>/dev/null)
+    # Fallback only: broader coverage, but frozen and hand-maintained.
+    [ -z "$h" ] && h=$(jq -r --arg d "$cwd" '.[$d] // empty' "$HOME/.althing/session_handles.json" 2>/dev/null)
+  fi
   if [ -n "$h" ]; then
     # `timeout` is load-bearing, not belt-and-braces: v2 read a local SQLite file,
     # v3 makes an HTTP call. An unreachable post office must cost this segment two