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/goal error messages for ephemeral sessions
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Why
When a user runs
/goalin a temporary session, the TUI can currently surface an internal app-server failure such asthread/goal/get failed in TUI. That message is technically true, but it does not explain the actual constraint: goals require a saved session because goal state is persisted with the thread.This is especially confusing when
codex doctorreports the background app-server as running in ephemeral mode, since that wording is easy to conflate with ephemeral thread/session behavior.What changed
codex-rs/tui/src/app/thread_goal_actions.rs.Verification
cargo test -p codex-tui thread_goal_error_message --libI also tried
cargo test -p codex-tui; it built successfully but the test runner aborted in an unrelated side-thread stack overflow (app::tests::discard_side_thread_removes_agent_navigation_entry), which reproduced when run by itself.