Feature Request: Live Activity Feed for Codex Agent While Coding

What variant of Codex are you using?

App

What feature would you like to see?

What issue are you seeing?

When the Codex agent is running, it’s sometimes unclear whether it’s actively working, stuck, or has encountered an error. From the user perspective, it can look frozen/bugged, so I can’t tell if it’s making progress.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Start a Codex agent run (any task that takes >30–60s helps reproduce).
2. Observe the UI while it’s running.
3. Note that there is no clear “heartbeat” / activity indicator, and the agent may appear stalled.

What is the expected behavior?

A live activity feed / progress view that shows what the agent is doing in real time (or at least periodic status updates), for example:

• Current phase (Planning → Editing → Testing → Done)
• Files being analyzed/edited
• Commands being executed
• Retries/errors/fallbacks
• “Last updated” timestamp / heartbeat updates

Additional information

This would improve trust + usability on longer runs, and make it easier to distinguish “working” vs “stuck”.

Additional information

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