Local tasks disappear from "recent tasks" or "chat history"
Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Sep 10, 2025 by iamhectorlopez Closed Sep 17, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (gpeal, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
IDE Extension: Cursor
Which model were you using?
Gpt5
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Start a local task. Apply or disregard changes. Close the chat and the IDE. Log back in.
And the chat will no longer be there, only cloud tasks will appear.
Local tasks drop down shows empty
<img width="446" height="291" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/44aece10-cd7f-49b9-ab6b-7689b7e05310" />
What is the expected behavior?
Local tasks should appear and be recorded. should also be accessible from https://chatgpt.com/codex
What do you see instead?
Only cloud tasks
<img width="446" height="291" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/379e501b-e040-4ac5-9b39-1b0ec4bf01cd" />
Additional information
_No response_
8 Comments
macos, brew upgrade codex to 0.36, all local task history disappear from "codex resume" and "vscode extend", only have new history
Windows 2025.09.16. VSCode Codex – OpenAI’s coding agent . Same error. No local chat history. But sessions alive in
%USERPROFILE%\.codex\I’ve identified the issue: the session history in codex/session from the previous release (I was apparently on v0.32) has a structure that’s completely different from the current one. You can verify this by comparing them. I plan to temporarily use an older Codex version to read the old history.
Same issue - it was resolved for a week or so, but as of today, with the 0.4.9 release the history is gone again.
There was a one time format change but feel free to open a new issue if this happens again in the future. Sorry for the disturbance.
I have the same issue - only selected historic chats are available, weirdly some very old ones, but a lot of recent ones disappeared.
Would love this to be implemented.
Currently using:
Version: 1.105.1 (user setup)
Commit: 7d842fb85a0275a4a8e4d7e040d2625abbf7f084
Date: 2025-10-14T22:33:36.618Z
Electron: 37.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 12502201
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.19.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Extensions: Codex, Github Actions, Github Codespaces.
Issue is reappearing for me using codex VSCode extension, only cloud chats show up, but no local chats; they disappear every time I disconnect from my SSH session. @gpeal