Lean message mode
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 4, 2026 by alippai Closed Feb 4, 2026
What variant of Codex are you using?
VSCode
What feature would you like to see?
I see in the logs that the messages are quite a bit cluttered. Even without MCP, SKILLS or AGENT.md they are all referenced by default. Same with personality and other unrelated things to coding or the actual task. An empty message is roughly 15000 tokens.
Given it's in an IDE extension, it should be able to craft the message needed successfully finishing the task.
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