Add a setting to disable automatic conversation recaps in Codex CLI
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CLI
config
enhancement
- Dominant language
- Rust
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Description
What variant of Codex are you using?
CLI (codex-cli 0.151.0)
What feature would you like to see?
Please add a documented config.toml setting that disables automatic conversation recap generation.
Additional information
For users who already understand the conversation, automatic recaps are unsolicited and distracting; when a recap is wanted, the user can explicitly request one.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by tracing where the Codex CLI generates automatic conversation recaps and how existing config.toml settings are parsed and documented. Add a documented setting that disables automatic recaps, while preserving explicit recap requests, and verify the setting changes only automatic generation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 68/100