Allow starting a new chat without leaving the current workspace
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- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
Currently, a workspace contains a chat in the side panel along with resources opened in tabs, such as the terminal, browser, files, review, etc.
However, it's not possible to start a fresh chat within the same workspace. Creating a new chat also creates a new workspace, causing us to lose all the resources that are currently open.
We should be able to start a new chat while keeping the same workspace and its opened resources.
Additional information
The goal is to make chats independent from the workspace lifecycle. Users should be able to start a fresh chat while keeping the same workspace, including all currently opened resources and tabs (terminal, browser, files, review, etc.).
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 tracing the App workspace and chat lifecycle, including how opened resources and tabs such as the terminal, browser, files, and review are retained. Done means a fresh chat can be started without creating a new workspace and all currently opened resources remain available.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100