ChatGPT app Codex remote only shows projects after starting a new conversation

What version of the Codex App are you using (From "About Codex" dialog)?

26.513.31313 (2867)

This is observed from the ChatGPT app Codex remote experience, not from a local Codex Desktop project list.

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro 5x

What platform is your computer?

macOS Codex Desktop, Android APK for remote control

What issue are you seeing?

In the ChatGPT app, many Codex remote projects do not appear in the Codex remote project list.

The project becomes visible only after starting a new conversation inside that project. However, even after the project itself appears, the older existing conversations in that project still do not appear.

This makes it look like the Codex remote project list and the per-project conversation list are not being backfilled or indexed from existing remote conversations. Creating a new conversation seems to create or refresh just enough metadata for the project to show up, but it does not recover the older conversations.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I do not yet have a fully deterministic minimal reproduction, but the observed flow is:

1. Open the ChatGPT app.
2. Go to Codex remote.
3. Observe that many existing Codex remote projects are missing from the project list.
4. Open or enter one of the affected projects through another route, then start a new conversation in that project.
5. Return to the Codex remote project list.
6. Observe that the project now appears.
7. Open that project.
8. Observe that older existing conversations for the same project still do not appear; only the newly created conversation is visible.

What is the expected behavior?

The ChatGPT app should show all existing Codex remote projects that the account can access.

For each visible remote project, the app should also show the existing conversation history for that project, not only conversations created after the project became visible in the current app state.

If Codex remote uses a project/conversation index or migration, it should be able to backfill from durable remote conversation metadata instead of requiring users to start a new conversation to make a project visible.

Additional information

This may be related to other Codex project/chat visibility or indexing bugs, but the user-visible symptom here is specifically in the ChatGPT app's Codex remote flow:

• Many remote projects are missing.
• Starting a new conversation inside a missing project makes the project appear.
• Older conversations for that project remain hidden.

So this looks like a remote project/conversation indexing or backfill issue rather than local data loss.