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A day of work lost

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Description

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.825.41651

What subscription do you have?

Pro

What platform is your computer?

W11

What issue are you seeing?

Yesterday, while using a normal Codex chat, I encountered a bug where, after several exchanges and making significant progress on a project, the conversation suddenly reverted to an earlier point, and all the work done after that point disappeared. I eventually created a new chat to see if that would fix the issue, and the bug seemed to be gone.

However, this morning, when I tried to continue working on my KRS project in a Codex Work chat, I noticed that ALL the work I had done yesterday had disappeared, and the conversation had reverted to the state it was in two days ago.

So not only have I lost all the work I did yesterday, but the token usage from that work has still been counted and has not been restored.

This is unacceptable. I have lost hours of work because of this.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 01a034d0-b203-7852-b3b6-5703189ed483

What is the expected behavior?

I should have found my project exactly where I left it the day before, instead of being taken back to a conversation state from two days earlier.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing Feedback ID 01a034d0-b203-7852-b3b6-5703189ed483 alongside the Codex App version 26.825.41651 and Windows 11 context. Investigate the conversation state rollback affecting normal and Work chats; done means conversations reopen at their latest saved state without losing work or incorrectly counting tokens.

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Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
desktop-dev
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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