Codex App: Thread Search with Sidebar Shortcuts and Keyboard Navigation
CodexCodex app version 26.323 introduces the ability to search across past conversation threads directly within the app, with sidebar shortcuts and dedicated keyboard navigation for quick access to recent conversations. This addresses a long-requested feature from the developer community, where users had previously reported that thread history appeared capped at around 40 entries with no reliable way to search older sessions.
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Thread Search Comes to the Codex App
Codex app version 26.323, released on March 24, 2026, introduces thread search — one of the most frequently requested features since the app's February 2026 launch. Developers can now search across all past conversation threads directly from within the app, rather than scrolling through a truncated sidebar list.
Sidebar Shortcuts and Keyboard Navigation
The search experience is designed for speed. A new sidebar shortcut exposes the search entry point without requiring navigation away from the active thread. Keyboard navigation allows users to move through search results and jump to recent conversations entirely without the mouse. For developers maintaining many parallel agent tasks across multiple projects, this brings a meaningful improvement to session continuity — historical context from older threads is now recoverable in seconds.
Background: A Community-Driven Feature
Prior to this release, community discussions on the OpenAI developer forum revealed that users' thread history appeared capped at approximately 40 entries, with the "show more" pagination failing to retrieve older sessions. The thread search addition in 26.323 directly addresses this limitation by providing an indexed, searchable view of the full local thread history.
Additional Improvements
Version 26.323 also includes general performance improvements and bug fixes alongside the thread search feature.