Allow more than 8 projects to display in the UI
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jul 20, 2026 by Casimirj
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
Raise the 8-project sidebar limit
Problem
Codex desktop caps saved projects in the sidebar at 8. Adding a 9th silently kicks an older one out, so projects seem to vanish at random.
What's happening
electron-saved-workspace-roots in ~/.codex/.codex-global-state.json holds exactly 8 entries and drives the sidebar. Meanwhile config.toml keeps all 24 of my trusted project entries just fine — the UI just won't show them.
Fix
- Raise the cap, remove it, or make it configurable
- If the issue is sidebar space, add a project picker (dropdown, command palette, or searchable popup — like VS Code's
Ctrl+P). That way the sidebar only needs to show a few recent/favorite ones and the rest are still reachable without re-adding. - If there's still gotta be a hard limit, at least evict the least-recently-used one and show a notice when it happens.
Why
Anyone juggling more than a handful of repos hits this nonstop. Re-adding projects over and over makes the app feel broken when it's really just a UI cap.
Additional information
_No response_