Steering Message After Compaction Won't Work

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Mar 9, 2026 by Kare-Udon Closed Apr 3, 2026

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.112.0

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4 medium

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

Ghostty 1.2.3 Build 12214

What issue are you seeing?

Steering messages added after the /compact command won't work.

<img width="220" height="138" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d9d91acb-4333-4651-b813-947cf6e0f4fe" />

The cli app also did not respond to ctrl-c, while ctrl-d do quit the app.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. run /compact command
  2. when compact is going, add a steering message
  3. the steering message won't work

What is the expected behavior?

When compaction ended, steering message will be sent and there will be a response

Additional information

_No response_

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