Suggestion: Interactive choice prompts for user confirmation in Codex CLI/client

Open 💬 2 comments Opened May 20, 2026 by YouliangJiang
💡 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 0.131.0

What subscription do you have?

pro 5x

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?

I’d like to suggest adding interactive confirmation prompts to the Codex CLI or client, similar to the experience in Claude Code.

When Codex needs to ask the user for clarification or confirmation in the middle of a task, it would be helpful if it could present several selectable options in an interactive popup or prompt, rather than only asking the user to manually type out a full response.

The key idea is to turn many clarification moments into “multiple-choice” interactions instead of purely open-ended subjective questions.

This would have several benefits:

More convenient interaction
Users could quickly choose from suggested options instead of writing long manual replies.
Better guidance and more possibilities
By showing several possible directions, Codex can help users discover options they may not have considered themselves.
Preserve full user control
Users should still be able to reject all suggested options and respond with custom text when needed.

In short, I think Codex would feel more efficient and collaborative if it could surface structured, interactive choices during clarification steps, while still keeping the flexibility of free-form user input.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019e43ac-6bb1-7281-8669-3dcf6a8a3bc4

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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2 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 3 months ago

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

  • #22764
  • #23480
  • #23041

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andreszs · 3 months ago

I just created a more detailed related issue here:

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/24750

From the tool error exposed in the chat, this capability already seems to exist internally as request_user_input, but it is currently unavailable in the default Codex workflow:

request_user_input is unavailable in Default mode