Command reference Β· Codex CLI
/new
Starts a new, empty Codex session.
/new is part of the official list of interactive Codex slash commands and starts a new session within the TUI. It's the opposite of /resume, which continues an existing session, and of /fork, which branches an existing session.
π THE SAME TASK (βCLEAR CONTEXT/HISTORYβ) ON OTHER PLATFORMS
β WHEN TO USE IT?
Start a new, independent topic
/new β start a fresh session for a task unrelated to the previous one
Session is cluttered with old context
/new β start over when the prior session history is no longer relevant
β WHEN NOT TO?
The session's existing context is still needed
/new discards the session's existing context.
Better: Use /resume to keep working on the existing session, or /fork to branch off a variant of it
SOURCES
- Codex CLI docs: Slash Commands β learn.chatgpt.com
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