Codex users want an Ask-Mode and persistent side chats: 'it implements code when I just ask questions'
dkracket · reddit · 2026-09-26
A Reddit user complains that Codex lacks the Ask-Mode found in IDEs like Cursor and Zed: even when explicitly stating a question, Codex proceeds to implement code. The author added a skill to constrain this but Codex keeps ignoring it. They also want persistent side chats — a crash currently wipes unrecoverable side chat content the user already paid for.
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