run commands in a actual terminal where user can stop them
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 4, 2026 by TenofHearts Closed Apr 4, 2026
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What variant of Codex are you using?
IDE Extension
What feature would you like to see?
Codex should run commands in a terminal, or add a button to stop the command but not the session. Sometimes codex will run a mul-formed command which may end up in a infinite loop or simply not be able to run.
For example, my codex tried to run:
python run -c "
***some code here***
# No second quote
which got stuck. I had to restart the whole session.
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You can press the stop button in the chat composer to stop pending tool calls. Then pick up where you left off by issuing a new command prompt.