Cursor: Codex thread/task rename is not exposed, and forked threads keep the same title as the base thread
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 24, 2026 by ParanoidAndrea Closed Mar 24, 2026
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What version of the IDE extension are you using?
openai.chatgpt@26.318.11754
What subscription do you have?
Chatgpt Plus
Which IDE are you using?
Cursor
What platform is your computer?
Windows 11
What issue are you seeing?
In the Codex extension inside Cursor, I cannot rename Codex chats/tasks from the UI.
I also see a second issue: when I fork a thread, the fork keeps the same title as the base thread, so the two threads are hard to distinguish. In practice, the fork title appears identical or nearly identical to the original thread title.
This makes the Tasks/Threads list difficult to use when I have multiple related Codex threads.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open Codex in Cursor.
- Create a thread with a long auto-generated title.
- Try to rename it from the Tasks/Threads list or from the thread UI.
- Fork that thread.
- Compare the fork title with the base thread title.
What is the expected behavior?
- There should be a clear rename action for Codex threads/tasks in Cursor.
- Forked threads should get a distinct default title, or at least make the fork relationship obvious.
- The title shown in the Tasks/Threads list should be easy to distinguish from the base thread.
Additional information
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I'm continuing the chat here as my issue was a duplicate.
I don't like naming chats by using the first prompt as the chat name, as it possibly might spend usage for no reason at most. And it is buggy, as you can see in the screenshot.
Here is a fork of the Kilo Code VS Code extension where I got renaming to work on chats (called tasks in that extension) https://github.com/topemalheiro/kilocode-legacy. Maybe it will be of help.
<img width="1890" height="133" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a7fbbcd7-08d7-461e-8d68-ade8ddc6638f" />