Add fork ability before starting session

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 19, 2026 by saulrichardson Closed May 2, 2026

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codex cli/codex app

Add ability to fork from the get go rather than open up the previous session and then fork, i.e., codex fork "asdf"

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

##15137
#/fork workflow overlap: both request improving how/when fork can be triggered without awkward session-state constraints.
##14520
#Also about /fork UX behavior (though focused on windowing), indicating prior demand for fork-flow improvements.

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Can you clarify the behavior you'd like to see? I'm having a hard time understanding what you mean by "Add ability to fork get the get go".

saulrichardson · 5 months ago

It would be nice if instead of doing

codex resume "session id"
/fork

i could just save the session id from a running session and then open a new terminal and do

codex fork "session id"

etraut-openai contributor · 3 months ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so I'm closing it.