Codex Desktop pinned threads no longer show project context in the global pinned list

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

Codex Desktop 26.609.71450 (3965), bundle id com.openai.codex.

What subscription do you have?

Not specified in this public report. I can provide account/subscription details privately if needed.

What platform is your computer?

macOS 26.3.1 (a) build 25D771280a, arm64.

What issue are you seeing?

Pinned threads in the Codex Desktop sidebar are now shown as a mixed global list without visible project/workspace context. When several pinned threads come from different projects, it is hard to tell which project each pinned thread belongs to without opening it.

This feels like a regression rather than a missing feature: the user remembers that pinned threads previously exposed enough project context to identify where each thread belonged, but the current app version no longer appears to show that context and there is no obvious setting to re-enable it.

The underlying thread data still has the project/cwd association. For example, the app/thread API can list recent threads with distinct cwd values across local projects and projectless directories, but the pinned sidebar surface does not display that project context in the pinned row.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Open Codex Desktop.
2. Have several saved local projects/workspaces.
3. Pin threads from multiple different projects.
4. Look at the pinned section at the top of the sidebar.
5. Observe that pinned rows are visually mixed together and do not show enough project/workspace context to identify where each thread belongs.
6. Open or inspect thread metadata separately and confirm each thread still has its own project/cwd association.

What is the expected behavior?

Pinned threads should remain identifiable by project/workspace without opening each one.

Any of these would solve the issue:

• show the project/workspace name or short label in the pinned row,
• show the project icon/folder icon next to the pinned row,
• group global pinned threads by project,
• expose a sidebar setting to show/hide project context for pinned rows.

If this was intentionally removed, please consider restoring it or documenting the replacement workflow.

Actual behavior

Pinned threads from different projects appear together without visible project context. The user has to open a pinned thread, inspect the header, or otherwise use a workaround to know which project it belongs to.

Why this matters

Pinned threads are most useful for long-running work across multiple projects. Without visible project context, the global pinned section becomes ambiguous and users can easily open or prompt the wrong thread.

This is especially painful for users who use Codex Desktop as a cross-project operator surface with many active repos and pinned operational threads.

Related issues

• #25448 requests project icons and specifically mentions showing them next to pinned thread names.
• #20816 requests project-level pinned conversations.

This report is narrower: on current Codex Desktop, the pinned thread list appears to have lost visible project context that users relied on before.