Codex does same work twice and ignores prompt

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 22, 2026 by mgryning Closed Mar 29, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.115.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

Gpt-5.4

What platform is your computer?

WSL

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

Windows Terminal

What issue are you seeing?

Codex does same work twice and ignores prompt. It's a waste of tokens.

I ask A. It does A. Test. Everything is OK
I ask B. It start to do A. See that most is done, maybe a small change. Says A is done
I ask B. It does B.

Thread ID 019d05c1-2a5f-7611-ac5f-eac27e4b8b4

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019d05c1-2a5f-7611-ac5f-eac27e4b8b43

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

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

#15318
#14787

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ghost · 5 months ago

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

Thanks for the bug report. We'll share the feedback with the team responsible for training our codex models. We're tracking this feedback and similar reports so we can improve future models. And thanks for using the /feedback command. That additional information is useful.