background terminals do not time out or kill off when no longer needed
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Description
What version of Codex CLI is running?
0.147.0
What subscription do you have?
nvidia
Which model were you using?
5.6-sol
What platform is your computer?
linux
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
windows
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
Background jobs are abandoned and run forever. Some tasks like rg are resource intensive, and when run on a large filesystem, will never complete in reasonble time. This has happened repeatedly and even after telling codex that one of its core instructions is to never leave an unguarded background task running, it continues to do so.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 01a02086-f1f1-7703-af52-1ce20d079b3c
What is the expected behavior?
timeout all background tasks, ensure that codex can tell background tasks are running
Additional information
No response
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 reproducing the issue from the uploaded thread 01a02086-f1f1-7703-af52-1ce20d079b3c and trace how Codex CLI launches and tracks background jobs. Identify where task lifetime and status reporting are handled. Done means background tasks are timed out when appropriate and Codex clearly reports that they remain running.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 52/100