TUI placeholder contains stale /resume characters after leaving resume picker
Open
Nobody has claimed this yet.
bug
CLI
session
TUI
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 125k
- Forks
- 19.4k
- PR merge metrics
- PR metrics pending
Description
What version of Codex CLI is running?
codex-cli 0.152.0
What subscription do you have?
chatgpt pro
Which model were you using?
No response
What platform is your computer?
Linux 7.0.12-linuxkit aarch64 unknown
What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?
Ghostty
Codex doctor report
What issue are you seeing?
After running /resume and returning to the main TUI, stale characters from
/resume remain mixed into the composer placeholder.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Start Codex in inline TUI mode.
- Enter
/resume. - press ESC, return to the main screen.
- Observe the composer placeholder.
What is the expected behavior?
No response
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
Reproduce the issue in Codex CLI's inline TUI by entering /resume, pressing Esc, and returning to the main screen. Trace the resume picker and composer rendering paths to find why the placeholder retains characters; done means the composer placeholder is clean after leaving the picker.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 64/100