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Codex app project chat history disappears after reopening app #26031
Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.601.21317 • Released 3 Jun 2026
What subscription do you have?
Plus
What platform is your computer?
Windows 11 x64 - Microsoft Windows version 10.0.26200.8524
What issue are you seeing?
Codex app project chat history disappears from the project after reopening the app.
This happened two days in a row for the same local project.
Project: Comm-Project
Mode: Work locally
Branch: main
The local project and Git repository still exist and the branch is still main, but the Codex chat history is no longer visible in the app.
What I verified:
- Under the Comm-Project project, the sidebar shows "No chats".
- Searching for previous chat titles such as "Complete Task 004" returns no matches.
- Settings > Archived chats shows "No archived chats".
- The previous worktree/project still exists locally.
- Git history is intact.
Feedback was already submitted from inside Codex.
Feedback ID:
no-active-thread-019e8bb0-6866-7a12-9c06-793016750271
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open Codex App.
- Work on a local project named Comm-Project.
- Use Codex chat inside that project for implementation work.
- Close the Codex app.
- Reopen the Codex app the next day.
- Open the same Comm-Project project.
- The project sidebar shows "No chats".
- Search for previous chat titles such as "Complete Task 004".
- Search returns no matches.
- Go to Settings > Archived chats.
- Archived chats shows "No archived chats".
This happened twice on two consecutive days.
Feedback ID:
no-active-thread-019e8bb0-6866-7a12-9c06-793016750271
What is the expected behavior?
Codex project chat history should persist after closing and reopening the app.
When I reopen the same local project, the previous project chats should still be visible under the project, searchable, or at least recoverable from Archived chats if they were archived.
Project chat history should not disappear from the project sidebar, Search, and Archived chats at the same time.
Additional information
This is blocking reliable multi-day project work.
I am using Codex for a local project over multiple days. Losing the chat history removes important implementation context, instructions, and previous decisions.
The local repository itself is not lost. Git commits still exist. The problem is specifically with Codex project chat history visibility/persistence inside the Codex app UI.
Screenshots available:
- Project sidebar showing "No chats"
- Search showing no matches for previous chat title
- Settings > Archived chats showing "No archived chats"
- Feedback uploaded dialog with Feedback ID
Activity
github-actions commentedon Jun 3, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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hokmeshah commentedon Jun 3, 2026
I reviewed the potential duplicate issues suggested by the bot.
This issue appears related to the same general problem, but I am keeping it open because it happened on Windows for my local project two days in a row, and in my case the chats are not visible in the project sidebar, Search returns no matches, and Settings > Archived chats also shows no archived chats.
Feedback ID:
no-active-thread-019e8bb0-6866-7a12-9c06-793016750271
If maintainers confirm this is an exact duplicate of one of the linked issues, I can close this one and continue tracking there.
Marcin-Kos commentedon Aug 29, 2026
I can reproduce this consistently on Windows.
The issue seems to affect Codex tasks inside Projects specifically.
Steps to reproduce:
Result:
Important detail:
At the same time, a normal Codex chat outside of Project tasks survives the app restart correctly. So this appears to be specific to Project task history persistence/rendering, not a general chat-history issue.
I reproduced this again today on a fresh task, so for me this is currently blocking normal work in Projects because every app restart can make the latest task history disappear from the UI.