Sync Custom sidebar sections to Codex Remote on Android

What variant of Codex are you using?

ChatGPT Android app — Codex Remote connected to the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app on macOS.

What feature would you like to see?

Please bring the desktop app’s Custom sidebar sections to Codex Remote on Android and synchronize the section structure for each connected host.

The desktop app now lets users organize tasks and projects into custom sidebar sections, manually order them, and ask Codex to organize the sidebar. In the ChatGPT Android app, however, Codex Remote still presents a flat or differently organized task/project list. When I start or continue work remotely on my laptop, the organization I created on the Mac is lost.

Desired behavior:

• Mirror the same section names, section order, and task/project membership in Android Remote.
• Allow users to create, rename, reorder, and delete sections and move tasks or projects between them from Android.
• Synchronize Android changes back to the desktop app.
• When starting a new task from Android Remote, allow the user to choose its section.
• If full editing cannot ship initially, provide read-only mirrored sections first.

Additional information

This feature was announced for the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app on August 28, 2026: https://x.com/Rudeg/status/2093423157055267157

OpenAI describes Codex Remote as loading the connected machine’s live state across threads and project context. Custom-section parity would make Remote feel like the same workspace instead of an unrelated task list.

Acceptance criterion: With Android Remote connected to the same account and Mac host, creating or reordering a section and moving a task/project on desktop should produce the same structure on Android. Changes made on Android should synchronize back, and a new Android-started task should be assignable to a section.

Related but not duplicate:

• https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/22806
• https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/24579

Start by locating the Android Codex Remote client and the desktop custom-sidebar state and synchronization entry points; the issue names no files or tests. Trace how section names, ordering, membership, and new-task assignment are represented, then verify the acceptance criterion in both directions with a connected Mac host.