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Local tasks disappear from "recent tasks" or "chat history" #3417
Description
What version of Codex is running?
IDE Extension: Cursor
Which model were you using?
Gpt5
What platform is your computer?
Windows
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Start a local task. Apply or disregard changes. Close the chat and the IDE. Log back in.
And the chat will no longer be there, only cloud tasks will appear.
Local tasks drop down shows empty
What is the expected behavior?
Local tasks should appear and be recorded. should also be accessible from https://chatgpt.com/codex
What do you see instead?
Only cloud tasks
Additional information
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[-]Local will not show in "recent tasks" or "chat history"[/-][+]Local tasks disappear from "recent tasks" or "chat history"[/+]gydx6 commentedon Sep 16, 2025
macos, brew upgrade codex to 0.36, all local task history disappear from "codex resume" and "vscode extend", only have new history
Corriscant commentedon Sep 16, 2025
Windows 2025.09.16. VSCode Codex – OpenAI’s coding agent . Same error. No local chat history. But sessions alive in
%USERPROFILE%\.codex\gydx6 commentedon Sep 16, 2025
I’ve identified the issue: the session history in codex/session from the previous release (I was apparently on v0.32) has a structure that’s completely different from the current one. You can verify this by comparing them. I plan to temporarily use an older Codex version to read the old history.
raabot commentedon Sep 16, 2025
Same issue - it was resolved for a week or so, but as of today, with the 0.4.9 release the history is gone again.
gpeal commentedon Sep 17, 2025
There was a one time format change but feel free to open a new issue if this happens again in the future. Sorry for the disturbance.
Cevah3ro commentedon Sep 19, 2025
I have the same issue - only selected historic chats are available, weirdly some very old ones, but a lot of recent ones disappeared.
interconnectedMe commentedon Oct 24, 2025
Would love this to be implemented.
Currently using:
Version: 1.105.1 (user setup)
Commit: 7d842fb85a0275a4a8e4d7e040d2625abbf7f084
Date: 2025-10-14T22:33:36.618Z
Electron: 37.6.0
ElectronBuildId: 12502201
Chromium: 138.0.7204.251
Node.js: 22.19.0
V8: 13.8.258.32-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.19045
Extensions: Codex, Github Actions, Github Codespaces.
Brayden-Zhang commentedon Mar 14, 2026
Issue is reappearing for me using codex VSCode extension, only cloud chats show up, but no local chats; they disappear every time I disconnect from my SSH session. @gpeal