Codex VS Code extension needs manual thread renaming
OpenAI Developer Community
May 6, 2026
Hello, I want to submit a usability complaint and feature request for the Codex VS Code extension.
The current thread list is very hard to use because thread titles are auto-generated by first phrase and often too vague. After a few sessions, it becomes difficult to understand what each thread is actually about. This makes navigation and context switching unnecessarily slow.
In practice, I need a way to manually rename threads so I can give them clear project-specific names such as:
* my-project-1
* my-project-2
* my-project-1-infra
Right now, in the VS Code extension, I cannot find any exposed way to rename a thread. This is a major usability gap.
Please add:
* Rename Thread in the thread context menu
* Rename Thread in the command palette
* inline title editing in the sidebar
* optional automatic naming based on workspace/repo name
This would make the extension much easier to use in real multi-project workflows.
Thank you.
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