Codex Desktop environments need a "teardown" config
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 3, 2026 by corrylc Closed May 10, 2026
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What feature would you like to see?
Codex Desktop added the (extremely useful) idea of environments, but didn't add the ability to set a teardown step/script.
While this wasn't necessary for Codex Web, where the whole environment is destroyed, it is very necessary for local development.
For example, if the environment for a project creates a Docker Compose stack during setup, we would want to run docker-compose down when the environment/worktree is closed out.
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+1
I've had to hack around this by creating a "start" script that sets up a heartbeat and executes the teardown once the script is terminated.
This feature request hasn't received any upvotes in multiple months, so I'm going to close it.