Android Remote shows internal-looking `g-p-...` project identifier for an existing Codex conversation

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Aug 26, 2026 by YihongTools Closed Aug 26, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What issue are you seeing?

In ChatGPT Android Remote, the project list shows an internal-looking identifier instead of the expected project name for an existing Codex conversation.

Observed project entry:

g-p-6a8bf03bcf408191b978b0b93bd02...

The affected conversation itself is still visible under Recent with its normal title:

執行 Task 25 bounded repair

Other projects such as TwStock, AllyVoxNote, PikClick, etc. display normally.

This looks more like an internal project/session identifier being surfaced as a UI label than a character-encoding issue.

Environment

  • Codex desktop host: Windows
  • Remote host: MFC-YH
  • Controller/client: ChatGPT Android app → Remote
  • Same ChatGPT account/workspace
  • Remote host is online and other projects/conversations are visible normally

Suspected trigger

The affected conversation had previously been pinned and then unpinned in Codex Desktop.

However, this is currently only a correlation / hypothesis, not a confirmed trigger.

I tried pinning and unpinning a simple test conversation, but could not reproduce the issue there. The affected conversation is a real, longer-running development thread with substantially more history/state than the simple test.

Reproduction status

NOT YET STABLY REPRODUCED with a minimal conversation.

Current observed sequence for the affected thread:

  1. Use an existing long-running Codex conversation on the Windows desktop host.
  2. The conversation is visible normally in Android Remote under Recent.
  3. The conversation had previously been pinned and later unpinned on Desktop.
  4. Android Remote now shows an additional project entry whose display name is an internal-looking g-p-... identifier.
  5. The conversation title itself remains normal under Recent.

A newly created/simple test conversation did not reproduce the problem after pin → unpin, so pin/unpin alone is not a sufficient condition.

Expected behavior

Android Remote should display the actual project name associated with the conversation/session.

Internal project/session identifiers such as g-p-... should never be shown as the project display label.

Actual behavior

Android Remote shows an internal-looking g-p-... value in the Projects section while the affected conversation remains visible under Recent with its normal title.

Additional observations

This may be related to conversation/project metadata synchronization or project association rather than rendering/encoding.

It may also be related at a lower level to the class of Remote/session indexing issues discussed in #36244, but the observable behavior is different:

  • #36244: a desktop conversation was completely absent from Web/Android Remote.
  • This issue: the conversation is visible, but Remote appears to expose an incorrect/internal project identifier.

Screenshot evidence is available and shows the g-p-... project entry alongside normal project names and the affected recent conversation.

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 days ago

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

  • #40459

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YihongTools · 2 days ago

Screenshot of the affected Android Remote view.

The Projects section shows an unexpected internal-looking entry:

g-p-6a8bf03bcf408191b978b0b93bd02...

At the same time, the affected conversation is still visible normally under Recent as:

執行 Task 25 bounded repair

Other project names such as TwStock, AllyVoxNote, PikClick, etc. are displayed correctly.

This supports the observation that the issue appears to involve incorrect project/session metadata or project association being surfaced in the Remote UI, rather than a general rendering or character-encoding problem.

<img width="1080" height="2400" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b26ca898-49a5-48a9-86d5-24d02dac7df2" />