Feature: Support for loading previous conversations as a command line option

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 13, 2025 by rv-nath Closed Nov 13, 2025

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.57.0

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

Which model were you using?

not applicable for the current issue

What platform is your computer?

WSL2 with Ubuntu distro

What issue are you seeing?

There is no --resume or similar option to continue a previous session. This is very useful and necessary for someone who is coming from claude-code

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019a7c73-d41a-74c0-933d-ac45abf824a5

What is the expected behavior?

Should have a feature to resume a previous conversation

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 months ago

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

#5126
#5207
#6500
#5386
#5110

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mwcrutcher · 9 months ago

It's:

codex resume

Not:

codex --resume

Use this to see the commands, arguments, and options available:

codex --help

rv-nath · 9 months ago

I outsourced my thinking to the chatGPT tool and it told me there is no such resume command. I wasted 2 hours writing some scripts to store conversation into a log file , then loading it. Project specific, folder specific conversations, etc... We went into a rabbit hole of wonderland in this direction.