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OpenAI Codex plugin fails to recognize successful session transfers

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A user encountered an issue with OpenAI's Codex plugin where it incorrectly reported session transfer failures. The plugin, designed to transfer live coding sessions to Codex, would claim failure even when the transfer was successful and the conversation history was preserved. The user investigated and found the root cause to be a path comparison mismatch between Windows' extended-length path format (prefixed with \\?\) used by Codex and the standard path format returned by Node.js's realpathSync function. AI

IMPACT Highlights a common issue in cross-platform path handling for AI tools.

RANK_REASON User-reported bug in a specific tool's functionality.

Read on dev.to — Claude Code tag →

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OpenAI Codex plugin fails to recognize successful session transfers

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  1. dev.to — Claude Code tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Andrew Avery ·

    OpenAI's Codex plugin told me my session transfer failed. It hadn't.

    <p>I was two hours into a refactor when Claude Code warned me I was running low on tokens. Annoying, but solvable: OpenAI ships an official plugin, <a href="https://github.com/openai/codex-plugin-cc" rel="noopener noreferrer">codex-plugin-cc</a>, with <code>/codex:transfer</code>…

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