Make the PR number in the CLI status line clickable

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Jun 26, 2026 by Eiji-Kudo Closed Jun 26, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.142.2

What feature would you like to see?

I'd like the existing pull-request-number status-line item to let me navigate to the current GitHub pull request.

Today, the TUI status line can render something like:

gpt-5.5 high · Context 100% left · feature/example · PR #123 · ~/repo

That PR #123 display is useful, but in my terminal it does not open the GitHub pull request when clicked.

Why this would help

When working through PR review feedback in Codex CLI, I often need to jump back to the current PR in GitHub. Since the status line can already show PR #123, making that segment clickable would cover the navigation use case without needing to display the full URL in the footer.

This is especially helpful when juggling multiple branches or worktrees.

Possible behavior

When pull-request-number knows the PR URL, render PR #123 as a terminal hyperlink where supported.
Keep the visible text compact as PR #123 rather than showing the full URL by default.
Omit or render plain text gracefully when no open PR is found, gh is unavailable, the repo is not hosted on GitHub, or the terminal does not support hyperlinks.
As an optional fallback, add a separate pull-request-url / github-pr-url item for users who need the explicit URL string in terminals or workflows where clickable links are unavailable or unreliable.

Current workaround

I can run this manually:

gh pr view --json url -q .url

Or add a local alias such as:

gh alias set prurl 'pr view --json url -q .url'

But it would be more convenient if the existing PR #123 status-line segment navigated directly to the PR.

Related issues

#22697 mentions existing git-related status-line items, including pull-request-number.
#23473 discusses pull-request-number lookup behavior and shows that the PR lookup path already requests url from gh pr view.
#17827 is the broader request for a fully customizable status line; this request is narrower and could be implemented as clickable behavior for one existing built-in item.

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

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

#28733

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Eiji-Kudo · 2 months ago

Small clarification after testing the current behavior:

The existing pull-request-number status-line item does render PR #123, but in my terminal it is not clickable / does not navigate to the GitHub PR.

So the navigation use case is still not covered for me. Either of these would solve it:

make the existing pull-request-number status-line item clickable when a PR URL is known, or
add a separate pull-request-url / github-pr-url item that renders the explicit URL.

The second option is still useful as a fallback for terminals or workflows where clickable terminal links are unavailable or unreliable.

Eiji-Kudo · 2 months ago

Update: I tested the same pull-request-number status-line item in VS Code's terminal, and PR #123 is clickable there.

So Codex already appears to emit the PR number as a terminal hyperlink. The behavior I saw seems specific to Warp's handling of OSC 8 / terminal hyperlinks, not Codex CLI itself.

Closing this since the original Codex-side request is already covered.