Only plain text response appears when resuming conversation; tool call history missing
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Oct 24, 2025 by BobbyWang0120 Closed Jan 10, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.47.0
What subscription do you have?
Pro plan
Which model were you using?
gpt-5-high
What platform is your computer?
macOS
What issue are you seeing?
In the Codex CLI, when I resume a conversation that I had before, only the plain text response message is still present. All previous tool invocation interactions (like edit file, create file, or other tool calls) are missing.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Start a conversation with Codex CLI and ask it to perform tool calls such as editing or creating a file.
- End or exit the conversation.
- Later, resume the same conversation from the CLI.
- When the conversation resumes, only the plain text response message is shown and all tool call logs have vanished.
What is the expected behavior?
When I resume a conversation, the full conversation history should be preserved, including all previous tool call interactions (such as edit file, create file, etc.). The CLI should display all responses and tool call outputs.
Additional information
_No response_
3 Comments
Hope this helps - I just closed my issue(#5643), if you are using a multiplexer like zellij
I am using iterm2 and it is not working, my situation is all previous messages are there but only plain text response are there, tool calls and file edits history disappear.
Closing old issue.