Weird symbols and lines being printed in terminal on each answer

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Mar 23, 2026 by savinmikhail Closed Mar 23, 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 0.116.0

What subscription do you have?

plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.4 medium

What platform is your computer?

Linux 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64 x86_64

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

I used PHPStorm's terminal with zsh shell

What issue are you seeing?

The model constantly ending its answers with weird symbols and lines:
<img width="1841" height="509" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5bd42edb-8c13-4b59-88f7-0edbbba4a0da" />

I cannot stop this behavior neither by restarting, nor turning off all mcp servers or sending messages. only ctrl+c worked

text representation of this behavior:

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What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019d109e-6562-77c3-b79d-41ea5c20f432

What is the expected behavior?

just absence of this repeating hallicutiations

Additional information

_No response_

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

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

  • #14214
  • #13867

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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.