steer does not work with shell commands

Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Apr 15, 2026 by Szpadel Closed Apr 21, 2026

What version of Codex CLI is running?

v0.121.0-alpha.14 | v0.120.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

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What platform is your computer?

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

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What issue are you seeing?

Sending steed command while manually executed command is issued breaks codex

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. run any command like !sleep 10
  2. send steer follow up like hi
  3. wait for sleep to finish

What is the expected behavior?

After command is done, codex still does not continue and stays in Working counting to infinite.
Pressing ESC will lock up cli completely.

Additional information

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