Incorrect tooltip: functionality advertised is disabled by default

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Jan 27, 2026 by unitof Closed Jan 28, 2026

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.92.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex xhigh

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.2.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Terminal.app 2.15 (466)

What issue are you seeing?

When launching Codex today, I saw the tooltip Press Tab to queue a message instead of sending it immediately; Enter always sends immediately. and drove myself nearly mad trying to do so.

It does not work: both <kbd>Enter</kbd> and <kbd>Tab</kbd> add to queue while Codex is busy, and only <kbd>Enter</kbd> works when Codex is idle.

I eventually discovered it is an experimental feature: Steer conversation must first be enabled in /experimental or config.toml.

Relevant PR: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/9077

Relevant commit: https://github.com/openai/codex/commit/cbca43d57a961cf37950895d39684413000bab6c (added both feature and tooltip)

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Keep running /new until the tooltip Tip: Press Tab to queue a message instead of sending it immediately; Enter always sends immediately. appears. Next, ask Codex to write something long and observe that this is not the case.

What is the expected behavior?

Tooltips should not include default-disabled experimental features. This tooltip should be removed.

Additional information

annoucements for staged features are already cycled into the pool of available startup tips in tooltips.rs, including this feature, so it will already be advertised with proper instructions to enable:

https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/28051d18c6877108a8982fdcb7ae16f37b45e1a6/codex-rs/core/src/features.rs#L458

I have confirmed it eventually shows up by repeatedly running /new:

<img width="860" height="365" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/841893c9-06fa-490b-812c-7304cf4916cd" />

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