Disable inline ghost suggestions in Codex CLI input

Resolved 💬 8 comments Opened Feb 3, 2026 by BigSurTrailmap Closed Mar 20, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

Codex CLI terminal UI in ubuntu codex-cli 0.94.0

What feature would you like to see?

Description:
When I open the Codex CLI terminal UI, gray inline "ghost" suggestions appear in the input box before I start typing.
They are distracting and usually irrelevant.

Expected behavior:
Provide a setting or feature flag to disable inline suggestions in the CLI input.

Tried:

Added 'suggestions_feature = false' under [features] in ~/.codex/config.toml
codex features list shows no suggestions-related flag

Impact:
The inline text adds visual noise and makes it harder to focus on writing prompts.

Additional information

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8 Comments

hasan-ozdemir · 5 months ago

Hey folks, this is really destructing feature in terms of accessibility! i have to read all these suggestions every time whenever i read the line with my screen reader as a blind Codex-Cli user!
Could we please prioritize putting a convenient configuration to disable these inline suggestions on the message composer input?

etraut-openai contributor · 4 months ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so closing.

stroxler · 3 months ago

How does one upvote issues? The hints are at worst mildly annoying to me in a full terminal, but if I run in a limited one (like embedded emacs / neovim terminals, which have advantages because then agents can more easily communicate back to the editor) they become very distracting

This is probably similar to what @hasan-ozdemir is experiencing, although I imagine it's even more of a problem for someone using a screen reader.

Claude Code has a similar feature but made it controllable with an environment variable CLAUDE_CODE_ENABLE_PROMPT_SUGGESTION, which is sufficient for my purposes. I'd be pretty happy if codex had something comparable

eja-git · 3 months ago

how is this not planned? please consider it. it can't be hard to implement a config.toml user setting. It's very annoying to see that text in the prompt constantly.

tillrathmann · 3 months ago

The suggestions are distracting and unnecessary in my opinion.
As a workaround I overwrote the strings in the Codex binary with spaces using a hex editor:

"Explain this codebaseSummarize recent commitsImplement {feature}Find and fix a bug in @filenameWrite tests for @filenameImprove documentation in @filenameRun /review on my current changesUse /skills to list available skills"

But after a Codex update I have to do that again of course.
An option to disable the suggestions would be much more sensible. Please reconsider it.

stevenellis-od · 2 months ago

Crazy that you won't give us the option. Is this a vibe code gimmick or a professional tool.

serprex · 1 month ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so closing.

juxtaposition with comment above really gets across "accessibility only impacts a fraction of users, so closing."

eja-git · 1 month ago

I'll use OpenCode instead. I can't imagine why OpenAI would ignore this, but anyway, good job.

EDIT: well, OpenCode isn't so great with GPT models... so I built my own codex with all the prompts removed.