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Codex VS Code extension needs manual thread renaming

OpenAI Developer Community May 6, 2026
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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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