Integrated terminal opens but is not attached to imported projectless task

Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 15, 2026 by MorrisonMint

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

26.707.72221 (build 5307)

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

macos

What issue are you seeing?

The integrated terminal opens and displays a working zsh prompt, but ChatGPT cannot read it.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Add an existing ChatGPT conversation as a Codex task.
  2. Open Terminal from the task’s side panel.
  3. Run a command in the terminal.
  4. Ask ChatGPT to read the task terminal.

Actual result:
The task-terminal reader returns:
“No app terminal session is attached to this thread yet.”

Expected result:
Once Terminal is opened for the task, ChatGPT should be able to read its current output.

This task is projectless and was created from an existing ChatGPT conversation. Fully quitting and reopening the app, returning to the same task, and reopening Terminal did not fix the problem.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open a projectless Codex task that was created by adding an existing ChatGPT conversation as a task.
  2. Open the side panel.
  3. Click Terminal.
  4. Confirm that the integrated terminal opens and displays a working zsh prompt.
  5. Run pwd in the integrated terminal.
  6. Ask ChatGPT in the same task to read the terminal output.
  7. ChatGPT’s “Read task terminal” tool returns:

No app terminal session is attached to this thread yet.

The problem still occurs after fully quitting the ChatGPT app, reopening the same task, and reopening Terminal.

No code snippet is required to reproduce this UI/session-attachment bug. Token-limit and context-window usage do not appear relevant.

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

_No response_

View original on GitHub ↗