Codex App chat search should match emoji in thread titles
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 26.623.101652 (bundle 4674)
What subscription do you have?
Unknown / not checked
What platform is your computer?
macOS 15.7.5
Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
The Codex App chat/thread search does not appear to match emoji in visible chat titles.
A chat title can visibly contain an emoji marker such as 🌿, but typing that same emoji into the app search/command palette returns No matches.
This makes emoji unusable as lightweight user-space tags in the app, even though they are practical for organizing chats without requiring a formal tags UI.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Rename or create a Codex App chat whose visible title contains an emoji, for example
🌿. - Open the Codex App chat search / command palette.
- Type the same emoji, for example
🌿. - Observe that the app returns
No matches, despite the emoji being visible in a chat title.
What is the expected behavior?
Searching for an emoji that appears in a visible chat title should return that chat.
Unicode emoji should participate in the same title search/tokenization path as ordinary text. This would make emoji usable as a lightweight, flexible tagging system, for example 🌿, 🧪, 🔥, or 📌.
Additional information
This seems inconsistent with the Codex CLI resume picker. With codex-cli 0.142.5, codex resume can match a session by emoji in the picker.
This overlaps with broader chat organization requests such as labels/icons/folders, but the request here is narrower: make the existing app search match emoji that already exist in visible thread titles.