Feature Request: Configurable Automatic Conversation Naming Format
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
Feature Request: Configurable Automatic Conversation Naming Format
Problem
When using Codex heavily across multiple development tasks, the automatically generated conversation titles become difficult to scan in the sidebar.
I often have several conversations in the same project covering code reviews, bug fixes, releases, investigations, and feature work. While Codex generates a description for each conversation, there is currently no way to define a consistent naming convention for those automatically generated titles.
Manually renaming every conversation defeats the purpose of automatic titles.
Requested Feature
Allow users to configure a conversation title template that Codex applies whenever it automatically names a new conversation.
For example, I would configure:
[DD MMM · HH:mm] — <Action>: <Generated Summary>
Codex could then automatically generate:
[24 Aug · 09:15] — Review: wiCode search changes[24 Aug · 10:05] — Fix: wiCode session timeout redirect[24 Aug · 11:20] — Release: PR #1481[24 Aug · 13:40] — Debug: Redshift integration connection
The <Action> could either be inferred by Codex or selected from configurable categories such as:
Implement, Fix, Debug, Review, Refactor, Release, Plan, Docs, Test, Investigate
Suggested Configuration
Something like:
Conversation title format: [DD MMM · HH:mm] — {action}: {summary}
Possible variables could include:
{date}{time}{project}{repository}{branch}{action}{summary}
Users could choose whichever variables make sense for their workflow.
Why This Would Be Useful
For developers running many Codex conversations simultaneously, the sidebar effectively becomes a work history.
Consistent automatic naming would make conversations much easier to scan, search, distinguish, and return to without requiring users to manually rename every thread.
The key requirement is that Codex should continue generating the title automatically — users should simply be able to control the format of that generated title.
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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
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating automatic conversation-title generation and the app's conversation settings UI, then determine how title templates and variables would be represented. Done should mean users can configure a format that is applied automatically while retaining generated summaries.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100