When asking permission for large amounts of code, the request is cut off so it cannot be seen fully or response options

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 28, 2025 by dv8silencer Closed Sep 6, 2025

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.25.0

Which model were you using?

gpt-5

What platform is your computer?

WSL2 [Ubuntu] (wezterm, bash, Windows OS is host)

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Start a new conversation in codex-cli. First user message:

I'm trying to debug something in codex-cli (you). Whenever you ask me for permission and the message is large, it gets cut off at the bottom. For example, when asking to run a program that is python program that is long (say 150 lines?), the button of the program is cut off. Go ahead and do that now. (easy: python program that almost nothing, but most of it is just comments). Don't think too hard. It's straight forward.

Then see the response.

What is the expected behavior?

I would expect to be able to see the full content of what is being requested. Now you just have to press a 'blind enter' to get the chat to progress. Or escape. Then you get control over the prompt again and see the part of the message that was clipped off earlier. So maybe be able to scroll down? Also the options for the request are not visible (Yes, No, ...) as they are clipped as well.

What do you see instead?

You can see that you cannot see further than line "45" here and mouse scroll down, or keyboard button down, --- neither help you see the full message.

<img width="1112" height="1345" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4dae8dd2-6b35-4c78-a532-fe225651a025" />

Additional information

Another example:
<img width="1249" height="1346" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/85c76406-cc76-444f-a4d3-c01612ad79b3" />

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