Summarize *high-level* details about current task in CLI status bar

Open 💬 0 comments Opened May 21, 2026 by jackhumphries

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What feature would you like to see?

I often provide a task to codex that requires multiple steps, particularly with /goal. For example, I may ask codex to convert 100 functions from one language to another. While codex prints out periodic updates and shows me the current command it is running, it is not immediately apparent where codex is overall in the task.

So during the 100 functions task, while I may know that codex is compiling something, I don't know how many functions it has converted so far overall and I don't know the name of the current function it is converting. I might be able to figure that out by scrolling through and reading codex output, but this is tedious and time-consuming.

Having a high-level natural language summary of what codex is doing right now would be helpful. This summary could be placed in a status bar so that it is always visible.

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