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Codex Desktop 26.527: Copy as Markdown disappeared from the Copy menu #25201
Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Codex Desktop Version 26.527.31326 (3390).
What subscription do you have?
ChatGPT Pro.
What platform is your computer?
macOS, using the Codex Desktop app.
What issue are you seeing?
After updating to Codex Desktop 26.527, the previous Copy as Markdown option appears to have disappeared from the Copy menu.
In the top-left chat/menu Copy submenu, I now only see:
Copy working directory
Copy session ID
Copy deeplink
None of these options replaces the old Copy as Markdown behavior. They only copy metadata or a link, not the actual Codex session / chat content in Markdown format.
This is a significant workflow regression. Copy as Markdown was important for:
- transferring Codex session output into GitHub issues;
- preparing support reports / bug reports;
- saving session notes into external docs;
- preserving code blocks, Markdown formatting, and assistant responses without manually selecting the UI text.
I do not see an obvious changelog note or migration path explaining where this functionality moved. If this was intentionally removed, please consider restoring it or replacing it with an equivalent export/copy action. If it was only moved elsewhere, the UI currently makes it hard to discover.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Update/open Codex Desktop
26.527.31326 (3390)on macOS. - Open an existing or new Codex session.
- Open the top-left chat/menu area and expand the
Copysubmenu. - Observe that
Copy as Markdownis no longer available.
What is the expected behavior?
The app should still provide a clear way to copy/export the current Codex session or chat content as Markdown, preferably in the same Copy submenu or another clearly discoverable location.
What is the actual behavior?
The Copy submenu only shows metadata/deeplink options and no longer provides a Markdown copy/export action.
Additional information
This is separate from earlier problems with Copy as Markdown embedding screenshots as huge inline base64 data URIs. The problem here is that the Copy as Markdown entry itself appears to be missing entirely after the update.
Related previous issue for context on the importance of this workflow: #22894
Activity
simonw commentedon May 31, 2026
I absolutely loved this feature! It was the single biggest feature keeping me on Codex Desktop compared to Claude Code - I used it to export transcripts and then link to them from my commit messages, for example here: simonw/research@f12e4d1
Please bring this back! The chat transcript is the most significant asset in helping document the work that we are doing with agents. I need the ability to export it and store it somewhere.
chrisremboldt commentedon May 31, 2026
We need this back, please fix asap OAI. Context is everything, and if you don't give us context with your tool, then that's a real issue
VolkumDev commentedon May 31, 2026
First the Context usage indicator is gone, now this, what are you guys doing????? The context usage indicator has been gone for QUITE SOME TIME now. Honestly, what are you doing with Codex??? (Edit: They now put the context indicator under a hidden setting, just in case anyone needs it)
If these are intentional changes you are doing a pretty bad move on all of us, and if these are bugs i beg you to hire a proper QA team. I'm trying to be respectful and i'm holding back in what i want to say, but you guys at the Codex team are not helping.
simonw commentedon May 31, 2026
Good news: https://x.com/PhilippSpiess/status/2061189796689494339
etraut-openai commentedon Aug 5, 2026
Copy as Markdown has been restored.