CLI Reinstate v0.98 single reply colorized diff view and permission request

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Feb 17, 2026 by eborremans Closed Mar 29, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI 0.98

What feature would you like to see?

I am using the CLI version 0.98 which already has the desired functionality: when I am asking for a code change, before applying I will be presented a diff of the change with color coding similar to the git diff command. In the reply where the diff is shown, it also asks for permission to apply the change. The colorization makes the change stand out and the permission request visually close to the change, which makes review and approval conveniently efficient. In addition I can quickly scroll back later because the diff colorization serves as a visual anchor in the usually lengthy session.

This version of the functionality seems to have been removed or severely downgraded in version 0.101. The colorized syntax highlighting has been removed. In addition the showing of the diff and the permission request for actually making the change are not in the same reply anymore.

I cannot do this anymore in 0.101 so I reverted to 0.98. Can this functionality be restored or made configurable?

Additional information

This issue is similar to https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/2520 where I placed a comment. I was asked to post a new issue.

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 6 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #11915

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so I'm closing it.

eborremans · 5 months ago

It turns out changes and improvements are being added so regularly this was basically fixed "en passant".