Codex Explorer helps manage local Codex CLI sessions
Codex Explorer is a local tool for finding, checking, and reopening past Codex CLI work sessions. It reads session files from the user’s `~/.codex/sessions` folder.
Those files are in JSONL format, and the tool parses them, stores an index in SQLite, and shows the results in a . The workflow runs on the user’s own machine, so the session history does not need to be sent to an outside service.
The tool is still in progress, but it may already help people whose Codex CLI session folder has become hard to browse. The code is available in the codex-explorer .
Key points
- Codex Explorer helps users find, inspect, and resume Codex CLI sessions.
- It reads existing files from `~/.codex/sessions`.
- It parses JSONL session files and indexes them into SQLite.
- It displays the sessions through a .
- It is still in progress, but may help heavy Codex CLI users now.