Feature Request: Easy Way to Add/Remove Files for Context And Specify Maximum Context Length
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened May 25, 2025 by chigkim Closed Nov 16, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (christophkogler, contributor)
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Apologies if this feature already exists, but I’ve been searching for it over the past few days without success.
I’m testing out codex -p ollama with DevStral, and the good news is that Codex is successfully communicating with the model.
However, I haven’t found a straightforward way to add or remove specific files from the context.
Running codex -f seems to include everything even assets and binary files.
Also, how can I configure the maximum context size? The default appears to be set at 2,000,000, which is too large for a local model.
There must be simple ways for these tasks in order to make local models more usable.
Thanks!
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There is actually a big list of default ignored file types and folders, in
context_files.ts. Unfortunately, you would have to recompile any time you wanted to change the list. I'll see if I can get a system for reading from a.codexignoreworking.This feature request has been open for more than six months and hasn't received any upvotes, so I'm going to close it.