code_mode is neither documented nor available in /experimental

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 11, 2026 by smileBeda Closed Mar 11, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What is the type of issue?

_No response_

What is the issue?

Release 0.114.0 added an experimental code_mode, which is neither documented, nor available in /experimental command.

Where did you find it?

https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/13418

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4 Comments

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

If it's not in /experimental, then it's not yet ready for documentation or external use.

smileBeda · 5 months ago

Ok, but .. it is been announced as released :D
https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/tag/rust-v0.114.0

thoughtdna · 5 months ago

@smileBeda it says "experimental" in the Changelog of the link you provided.
Change log documents all commit merges, as per general SDLC, which includes features, and experimental features. Experimental features are flagged literally with that label for a reason.

I think you have mistaken "Production" ready with "Release" ready.

smileBeda · 5 months ago

@thoughtdna
I'm not comparing or assuming release is production.
My point is simply that feature is not available, not even under /experimental :)

No one is arguing that releases can't contain experimental features - isn't that precisely what /experimental is for?

What’s odd here is that the release notes mention an (experimental) feature that isn't actually accessible at all, not even through the /experimental command.
So at the moment it's effectively an experimental feature that can't be experimented with 😆 - and in other words completely irrelevant to the user who reads the changelog.

Maybe it will show up there in a future release. Maybe a "unavailable" instead of "experimental" flag would save a ticket.