Show linked GitHub PR number/link in Codex Desktop thread header and sidebar
What variant of Codex are you using?
Desktop App on Mac OS
What feature would you like to see?
Codex Desktop should show the linked GitHub pull request number/link in the visible thread UI when a conversation is about a PR.
For example, if a thread is working on openai/codex#12345, the app should make that visible in places like:
- thread header
- sidebar thread row
- search / command results
- task summary or PR status area
A compact chip such as PR #12345 linking to GitHub would be enough.
Additional information
When I use Codex Desktop for PR follow-up, review, rebases, CI fixes, or review feedback, the original PR link is often only present in the first prompt or an early assistant message.
After a long thread, I often need to scroll back through old messages just to find the PR number or GitHub URL. This is especially painful when managing multiple PR-backed threads in parallel.
The thread title helps, but it is manual and easy to forget. Codex often already has enough context to know the active PR from one or more sources:
- a GitHub PR URL in the initial prompt
- a branch with an open PR discoverable via
gh pr view - a PR created from the Codex app
- a PR reviewed or updated during the thread
This is related to, but narrower than:
- #24202, which asks for supported live thread-title updates
- #23473, which discusses PR status detection not showing an open PR
- #28182, which asks for GitHub repo/issue/PR onboarding through
codex://new?originUrl=...
This request is specifically about showing the linked PR number/link as durable first-class thread UI metadata in Codex Desktop.
Claude Code CLI does this as a conversation summary when a PR has been created/modified/investigated, which is extremely helpful when managing multiple conversations and picking up after some time. The alternative is scrolling up a bunch or trying to search the conversation.