When in plan mode, Codex asks redundant questions

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

0.4.71

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which IDE are you using?

VSCode

What platform is your computer?

25.2.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

Look, I understand the appeal of exposing interactivity with design choices when Codex is in plan mode, and I think it would be a HIGHLY valuable way to expose more user input into design choices for those of us that do not want to have to wrestle with Codex to implement things correctly. But, in my experience, it seems like the questions Codex asks are forced/just to provide the illusion of interactivity.

I use plan mode a lot to make large changes to my projects, usually in the context of turning my large brain dump of a prompt into a structured plan. I have yet to experience Codex asking me a question that was not already explicitly answered in my prompt.

One example:
I was working on Terraform code for an AWS-based CRM disaster recovery application. My prompt contained:
"add one consistent transient-error retry policy to each Lambda-invoking task" and "set cloudwatch_log_retention_days to 7 days instead of 30"

Codex asked two questions:

1. "Which retry policy should be used for each Lambda-invoking Step Functions task? (AWS transient errors only, on all failures including invariant logic, keep as-is)"
2. "Where should the 7-day CloudWatch retention be set? (cloudwatch_log_retention_days tfvar, new separate tfvars, manual control)"

Both of these questions are redundant and most of the options provided are explicitly not what I described in the prompt. This behavior repeats every time I use plan mode.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Turn on plan mode on VSCode IDE extension in an existing repo.
2. Write a long, detailed prompt describing changes.
3. Observe Codex asking for implementation details about things explicitly described in the prompt.

What is the expected behavior?

Desired UX would be:

1. Codex does not ask questions that have already been answered in the prompt
2. Codex does not ask "junk" questions just for the sake of asking them
3. Codex only asks for user input in plan mode when there is a legitimate design tradeoff/desired behavior is unclear from the user prompt.

Additional information

I know this is a new feature and I think it would be very useful. Just sharing my feedback as someone who uses it a lot.