Codex VS Code thread title renders but body is empty.

[ttasovac]

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

openai.chatgpt 26.422.30944-darwin-arm64

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which IDE are you using?

VS Code

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

A Codex VS Code thread opens with the correct title, but the conversation body is empty, so I cannot inspect or continue the thread from the IDE.

What I checked locally:

• The transcript file exists:
  ~/.codex/sessions/2026/04/25/rollout-2026-04-25T12-33-16-019dc433-672c-74b0-8439-a04b145add41.jsonl
• The JSONL validates successfully with jq -c . file >/dev/null.
• Codex SQLite state points to that file.
• The thread is not archived.
• The VS Code UI renders the title but no messages.

SQLite row:

id=019dc433-672c-74b0-8439-a04b145add41
title=Scaffold vukomat existdb upgrade
archived=0
source=vscode
cwd=/Users/ttasovac/Development/ttasovac/raskovnik-frontend
cli_version=0.125.0-alpha.3

One suspicious detail: the threads.has_user_event value is 0 even though the transcript JSONL contains user messages.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I can provide the affected local transcript privately if useful.

What is the expected behavior?

No response

Additional information

No response

[github-actions]

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

• Long Codex threads fail to hydrate after reload when compacted replacement_history records are large (UI shows empty, logs show missing handler) #19397
• Codex VScode extension not loading previous conversation #19478
• [WSL/Linux] Long Codex threads intermittently open as blank panel, short threads load normally #19434
• [extension][Windows][Cursor/Antigravity] Long existing threads open as blank panel while short threads load normally #18931

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[daxliniere]

YES THIS IS KILLING ME. @mods, come join the Codex Discord and for plenty of reports of this and other issues since 5.5 dropped.

[metrax]

Have a look to my workaround here:
#18993 (comment)

[daxliniere]

Have a look to my workaround here:
#18993 (comment)

Hopefully that means it'll be a quick fix.