Always display the current working directory
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Feb 14, 2026 by doggy8088 Closed Feb 15, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What variant of Codex are you using?
codex-cli 0.101.0
What feature would you like to see?
I wish Codex CLI could display the current working directory in the input box. I often have multiple tabs open, each running a different instance of Codex CLI, and I frequently forget which instance is associated with which folder. Displaying the working directory would make it much easier to keep track of them.
Additional information
Here is the screenshot from Copilot CLI for example.
<img width="1953" height="737" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4eb23e56-94ab-46b0-83da-cc5504551a56" />
2 Comments
We recently added a
/statuslinefeature that allows you to customize the status line below the input box. It allows you to display, among other things, the current working directory. Does that meet your needs?Yes, that is enough.