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Root Cause

When many Codex conversations are running or have recently completed, the current sidebar can require too much scrolling to find the chat that needs action. This is especially painful for approval prompts: the user may know something is blocked, but still has to hunt for the exact conversation.

The goal is not only notifications, but better in-app workbench visibility: chats whose state changed should become easy to find immediately.

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What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

Codex Desktop should offer a way to bring conversations that need attention, or just finished work, to the top of the sidebar/project list so users do not have to scroll through many chats to find them.

Useful states to surface:

  • Chats awaiting user permission / approval.
  • Chats awaiting user input.
  • Chats that just finished successfully, shown with the existing green status indicator.
  • Optionally, actively running chats.

Possible UI options:

  • A sidebar sort/filter mode such as "Needs attention first".
  • A small "Active / Needs attention / Recently finished" section above normal history.
  • Per-project grouping that keeps these important chats visible within the project they belong to.

Why this matters

When many Codex conversations are running or have recently completed, the current sidebar can require too much scrolling to find the chat that needs action. This is especially painful for approval prompts: the user may know something is blocked, but still has to hunt for the exact conversation.

The goal is not only notifications, but better in-app workbench visibility: chats whose state changed should become easy to find immediately.

Related issues

This overlaps with, but is not the same as:

  • #18778, which asks for active running tabs on top.
  • #18162, which asks for "Action Required" in terminal/tab title for TUI.
  • #13629, which asked for an app dock badge count for awaiting approvals.

Those are useful related ideas, but this request is specifically about Codex Desktop sidebar/project-list ordering and visibility.

Prior-art example

In my AgentSessions app, the Agent Cockpit gives a visual workbench view of active sessions and their state, so sessions that need attention or recently completed work are easy to spot without manually scrolling through history.

Product page:

https://jazzyalex.github.io/agent-sessions

Repo:

https://github.com/jazzyalex/agent-sessions

AgentSessions is a macOS, open-source app with 522 GitHub stars. A similar state-aware surfacing option in Codex Desktop would make parallel agent work much easier to manage.

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TL;DR

Implement a sorting or filtering mechanism in the Codex Desktop sidebar to prioritize conversations that require attention or have recently finished.

Guidance

  • Consider adding a "Needs attention first" sort/filter mode to the sidebar to surface important conversations.
  • Introduce a separate section above the normal history for "Active / Needs attention / Recently finished" chats.
  • Explore per-project grouping to keep important chats visible within their respective projects.
  • Review related issues (#18778, #18162, #13629) to ensure the proposed solution aligns with existing feature requests.

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No code snippet is provided as the issue focuses on feature design and implementation details are not specified.

Notes

The proposed solution should be tailored to the specific requirements of Codex Desktop and its user base, taking into account the unique features and workflows of the application.

Recommendation

Apply a workaround by introducing a custom sorting or filtering mechanism, as upgrading to a fixed version is not applicable in this case, and the issue is a feature request rather than a bug report.

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