Chat history gets cleared on VS Code restart

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Sep 3, 2025 by karacsonybarni Closed Sep 3, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the VS Code extension are you using?

0.4.0

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Windows

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Restart VS Code

What is the expected behavior?

Chat history is saved

What do you see instead?

No chat history

Additional information

_No response_

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4 Comments

hopenjin · 11 months ago

Same issue locally on macOS and in Remote SSH sessions (Cursor IDE).

advdrone · 11 months ago

Made an issue for this here, they're working on it #2911

gpeal contributor · 11 months ago

duplicate of 1991

hammersam · 11 months ago

I also encountered the same problem using the vscode + codex plugin on Intel macos15, it seems that reopening the folder or reloading the window will cause the codex local conversations to disappear