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Seamless Codex Session Handoff Between CLI, Web, and Mobile

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CLI enhancement remote session
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Description

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

Codex should support seamless session handoff between CLI, web, and iOS.
I want to start a normal codex session in my terminal, leave my desk, open ChatGPT/Codex on my phone or the web, and continue the exact same session — including context, running processes, approvals, diffs, and terminal state — then return to the CLI later. Claude Code’s remote/session continuation sets the expectation here. Requiring the ChatGPT desktop app to be the session host makes Codex Remote considerably less useful for CLI-first developers.

Maybe related: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/33948?utm_source=chatgpt.com

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Research direction

Start by reading the related issue #33948 and the existing Codex Remote behavior mentioned in the report. Compare the CLI, ChatGPT/Codex web, and iOS session entry points, then define what shared context, processes, approvals, diffs, and terminal state must persist for a session to resume across clients.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
cli, mobile-dev, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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