Show /plan and /goal icons in the task sidebar
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
(not the cleanest generation but decent demonstration)
/plan and /goal already have distinct icons inside an active Codex task, but that distinction disappears in the sidebar. Sidebar tasks currently show the same activity/spinner indicator regardless of modifier.
It would be useful to carry the modifier icon into the sidebar so you can identify a task's mode without opening it.
For example:
/plan task → use the existing Plan/lightbulb icon
/goal task → use the existing Goal/target icon
This would make parallel tasks much easier to scan and would preserve information Codex already exposes inside the task.
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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 finding the App task-sidebar entry point and the existing Plan/lightbulb and Goal/target icon definitions used inside active Codex tasks. Trace how /plan and /goal task modes are represented in sidebar items. Done when sidebar items show the matching icon while preserving current activity/spinner behavior, and the relevant UI checks pass.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 58/100