Expose safe project and thread ordering APIs for Codex Desktop

Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 12, 2026 by root1739126979
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What variant of Codex are you using?

App / Codex Desktop

What feature would you like to see?

Codex Desktop supports drag-and-drop organization, but automating it through the UI is unsafe because dropping a thread onto a project changes its project membership instead of merely changing its visual order.

Please expose supported App Server APIs for:

  • reading the persisted project and thread display order;
  • assigning an explicit order or moving an item before/after another item;
  • sorting projects and threads by recent activity;
  • distinguishing reorder operations from moving a thread between projects;
  • applying an atomic batch reorder;
  • returning the resulting order for verification;
  • preserving thread-to-project membership during reorder;
  • restoring a previous order after failure.

Use case

Users with many long-running projects need external local organizers that can rank projects and threads by activity without editing internal files or using fragile mouse automation.

A supported ordering API would also make accessibility tooling and local workflow automation substantially safer. The key requirement is that a visual reorder must never be confused with changing a thread's project membership.

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1 Comment

github-actions[bot] contributor · 15 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #37312
  • #38259

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