Add a Simple “Feature Workflow” to Codex CLI
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Aug 20, 2025 by michaelboeding Closed Sep 3, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (dedrisian-oai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What feature would you like to see?
Feature Request: Add a Simple “Feature Workflow” to Codex CLI
Summary
Introduce a small set of commands that handle the most common Git workflow around AI-assisted edits:
start a feature → work → open PR → finish/merge — without leaving the CLI.
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Why
Codex CLI already handles local edits well, but users still have to drop down into git or provider CLIs to:
- create a feature branch,
- push it
- open a PR
- merge it safely once CI passes
That glue work is repetitive and inconsistent. A built-in workflow would streamline this and enforce best practices.
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Proposed UX
codex feature start <name>- Creates and checks out
feature/<slug>from the base branch. - Prompts interactively for base branch, issue key, or other metadata if not provided.
codex feature pr- Pushes the branch and opens a PR.
- Prompts for title, reviewers, labels if not passed as flags.
codex feature finish- Safely merges into base only if CI checks and approvals are green.
- Offers option to delete the branch.
- Prompts for merge method (
squash|merge|rebase) if not configured.
codex feature status- Shows branch info, linked PR, and CI state.
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Are you interested in implementing this feature?
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Additional information
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2 Comments
Looks like Google just implemented something similar here with custom slash commands. Basically allows you to accomplish what I mentioned above. Implementing that with some pre-built items would like the 'feature' mentioned above would probably be the best route now.
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioners/gemini-cli-custom-slash-commands?e=48754805?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=unpaidsoc&utm_campaign=fy25q3-googlecloud-blog-ai-in_feed-no-brand-global&utm_content=-&utm_term=-&linkId=16212414
We recently released custom prompts! https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/2696 Closing for now.