Edit icon is sometimes hidden and rollback/checkpoint is not reliable

[vltansky]

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

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What platform is your computer?

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What issue are you seeing?

Sometimes the message edit icon is not visible, and there is no reliable way to rewind, rollback, or restore to a checkpoint from the UI.

In other tools such as Cursor and Claude Code, editing/rewinding/checkpoint restore is reliable enough to recover from a bad turn. In Codex, when the edit affordance is missing or hard to find, there is no obvious fallback path to return to a previous state.

Feedback ID: b625d0e2-54ae-4fef-8281-d3ce87ef54c0

Additional feedback: /feedback currently does not allow attaching screenshots, which makes this kind of UI bug harder to report with evidence.

Possibly related existing issues:

• App: message editing #11086
• CLI: Add /rewind checkpoint restore that reverts both chat context and Codex-applied code edits #11626
• History‑linked checkpoints and file state restore #2788
• Support restore to checkpoint automatically just like Cursor? #3585

What steps can reproduce the bug?

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What is the expected behavior?

• The edit icon should be consistently visible/discoverable when message editing is available.
• Codex should provide a reliable rewind/rollback/checkpoint restore flow.
• Users should have a clear way to recover from an undesirable turn, similar to the reliable checkpoint flows in Cursor or Claude Code.
• /feedback should allow attaching screenshots for UI reports.

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[github-actions]

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

• [Codex CLI] Old context persists when forking then jumping back to a previous message in the history #21986
• Forked Codex sessions copy user messages from after the selected fork point #21025
• Forking conversations doesn't exist anymore in the past 6-7 versions of the mac desktop app #20643

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