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Description
What version of the IDE extension are you using?
26.803.61601
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which IDE are you using?
VS code
What platform is your computer?
No response
What issue are you seeing?
It tells me:
This is open in another app
Close it there to continue here.
But this is not the case at all.
I had it running in vscode > codex plugin, closed vscode, and reopened again.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Simply open VScode, and select a chat.
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
No response
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reproducing the issue in VS Code with the Codex plugin: open a chat, close VS Code, reopen it, and select the chat. Investigate the handling of the active-chat state across restart; done means the chat opens without reporting that it is active in another app.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100