Codex CLI: Add fast mode status to the statusline

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 6, 2026 by miraclebakelaser Closed Mar 10, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

Add a statusline option that displays the current fast_mode status.

/statusline
``
[x] model-with-reasoning Current model name with reasoning level
[x] fast-mode Current fast mode status (omitted when off)
[x] current-dir Current working directory
[ ] context-remaining Percentage of context window remaining (omitted when unknown)
[ ] context-window-size Total context window size in tokens (omitted when unknown)
[ ] model-name Current model name
[ ] project-root Project root directory (omitted when unavailable)
[ ] git-branch Current Git branch (omitted when unavailable)
[ ] context-used Percentage of context window used (omitted when unknown)

gpt-5.4 medium · fast · ~/project/path



in `config.toml`

status_line = [
"model-with-reasoning",
"fast-mode",
"current-dir",
]


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3 Comments

oxysoft · 5 months ago

Related broader proposal: instead of only growing the built-in statusline element list, a custom widget API could let users build things like fast-mode indicators, edited-file stacks, and richer airline blocks. I just opened #14043.

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This is included in the latest version. See this PR.

miraclebakelaser contributor · 5 months ago

Thank you!