Full path urls are being shortened
Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Feb 5, 2026 by coygeek Closed Feb 9, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
Version 260205.0946 (552)
What subscription do you have?
Pro
What issue are you seeing?
When i pasted a full path to a file (on the computer), i saw a shortened version in Codex Macos App.
Example:
- I pasted to chat
/Users/user/Desktop/@DONE/2026-01-30-openclaw/toolkit-self-fix-issues/runs/20260205-204046-oneshot/audit-output.md
- I saw on screen
/Users/user/Desktop/audit-output.md
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Open a new chat, paste in a large url to a document.
However, Codex actually understood what file i was refering to, so the glitch must be just showing the wrong URL on screen.
What is the expected behavior?
Full paths should be visible in the chat, not shortened versions.
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Related to my annoyances with these pills: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/8543
FYI @btraut your issue is with Codex CLI, my issue is with Codex App (for macos).
My issue was the extension, not the CLI. It's possible I'm mistaken, but I had assumed some (much) of the extension and Codex app code is shared. If I'm wrong or my issue is otherwise irrelevant, then I hope OpenAI folks give attention to both of ours.
That's correct. A significant amount of code is common between the extension and the Codex app. That includes the code that updates these path pills.
This looks like the LLM (Codex in this case) taking a shortcut by not displaying the full path, in order to save some tokens.
Basically, Codex is being lazy.
Closing.