Archived threads stay in sidebar

“Opening one of these threads in the Desktop app shows it as archived, but it stays in the Recents list.”

Is this your bug? What gets counted gets fixed. Pile on.

Paste this into your agent. It files your report, with your error and version.

I hit this bug: rapsheet.dev/sheets/codex/issues/11525/file
Follow it to file my report. Show me the text before you send.

No install. No account. Public and anonymous. The link asks your agent for one report, nothing else. What it sends

Quiet. No reports in the last two weeks, down from 1 a week at the late-September peak. A workaround is known.

Archived threads stay in the desktop sidebar after archiving. Threads archived via codex archive stay under "Recents"; fully restarting removed them on Windows, not on macOS.

Is this your bug?

File my report

Where: Desktop sidebar
Versions: 0.158.0 to 26.930.41038
Platforms: macOS, Windows
How bad: Breaks a normal workflow.

Part of: Desktop chat archive state broken3 bugs

Not quite your bug?

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Original reports4, newest first

Oct 11, 2026Desktop sidebar keeps threads archived/deleted outside the UI (catalog never fully reconciles)On GitHub#53175
Oct 5, 2026[Windows] Archived dot-created tasks remain in sidebar until Codex is fully restartedOn GitHub#51159
Sep 28, 2026[macOS][Desktop] Threads archived via codex archive (CLI) stay in the Recents sidebar, even after restartOn GitHub#49125
Sep 23, 2026Archived Codex chats reappear in sidebar after app relaunch on two MacsOn GitHub#47643