Allow hiding local projects in ChatGPT Work without removing them from Codex

What version of the Codex App are you using?

ChatGPT desktop / Codex 26.721.41059 (build 5848)

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro

What platform is your computer?

macOS 27.0 (26A5388g), Apple Silicon

What feature would you like to see?

Allow local Codex projects to be hidden from the ChatGPT Work sidebar without removing them from Codex.

The unified desktop app currently shows the same saved local projects in both product modes. The available project action is Remove, but removing a project changes the shared project registry, so it also disappears from the Codex sidebar.

This makes "hide from Work" and "remove from Codex" the same operation even though they represent different user intents.

Current behavior

1. Add local folders as Codex projects.
2. Switch to ChatGPT Work.
3. The Work sidebar shows all local Codex projects.
4. Open a project's menu and select Remove.
5. The project disappears from both ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Changing the Work sidebar organization to In one list can reduce grouping, but it does not provide per-project visibility control.

Expected behavior

Project visibility should be configurable per product mode:

• Show in Codex
• Show in ChatGPT Work

A user should be able to hide a local project from ChatGPT Work while keeping it registered and fully available in Codex.

Possible UI:

• Add Hide from Work / Show in Work to the local-project menu.
• Keep Remove project as the existing global registry action.
• Store visibility separately from project registration.
• Optionally provide a Work setting such as Show local Codex projects for a global toggle.

Why this matters

ChatGPT Work and Codex have different purposes. Users may have many development repositories that are useful in Codex but create significant clutter or expose irrelevant project names in the general ChatGPT Work sidebar.

The distinction should be:

• Hide from Work: presentation-only and reversible.
• Remove project: unregister the local project from the app.
• Delete files: never implied by either action.

Related issue checked

• #35423 requests archive support for ChatGPT cloud Projects and explicitly excludes local Codex folders. This request is specifically about local Codex project visibility across the unified desktop app's Work and Codex modes.