Ask inside chat creates Codex task with conversation title instead of request
What version of the Codex App are you using?
Codex Desktop / unified ChatGPT app 26.707.91948 (bundle 5440), with bundled codex-cli 0.144.5.
What subscription do you have?
Not provided.
What platform is your computer?
macOS 15.7.8 (build 24G814).
What issue are you seeing?
Using Ask inside chat from a ChatGPT conversation and adding it as a Codex task creates a malformed task request.
The full source conversation is attached as untrusted background context, but the actionable request contains only the linked conversation title. In this reproduction, Codex received:
## My request for Codex:
[Recommendation Justification Analysis](chatgpt-conversation://...)The three-word title is not an instruction. Codex therefore cannot determine what work the task should perform and has to ask the user what to do.
The conversation content was transferred, but its objective was not.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open a ChatGPT conversation containing a multi-paragraph assistant response.
- Open Ask inside chat.
- Choose the option to add the conversation as a Codex task.
- Open the generated Codex task.
- Observe that the referenced conversation is present as background context.
- Observe that My request for Codex contains only a link whose label is the conversation title, with no actionable instruction or transferred output.
What is the expected behavior?
The generated task should contain an actionable request derived from the selected content, or the modal should require the user to enter an instruction before creating the task.
It should not create a task whose only request is the conversation title.
Additional information
The full source conversation and logs are intentionally omitted from this public report. The sanitized request shape above shows the failure without exposing conversation content.
Issue #31966 covers the same general Add to Task path but reports a Windows freeze. This report concerns loss of the task objective on macOS.