Timed user-input questions auto-dismiss in VS Code extension

What version of the IDE extension are you using?

26.707.41301

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Business

Which IDE are you using?

Visual Studio Code

What platform is your computer?

Linux 7.1.3-1-cachyos x86_64 unknown

What issue are you seeing?

The Codex VS Code extension presents questions for user input with a countdown timer. If I am still reading the question when that timer expires, the question disappears and Codex continues without receiving my answer.

This is a significant usability problem: the extension asks for input, but can remove the opportunity to provide that input before the user has finished reading the prompt.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

1. Open Codex in the VS Code extension.
2. Start a task that causes Codex to ask a user-input question.
3. Do not answer immediately; read the question instead.
4. Wait for the displayed countdown to expire.
5. The question disappears and Codex continues without an answer.

What is the expected behavior?

Provide a setting to disable timed auto-resolution of user-input questions. When enabled, questions should remain available until the user answers or explicitly dismisses them.

Additional information

• The behavior has been observed in the VS Code extension.
• A manual test in the current Codex chat did not show a timer, so the observed scope is the extension rather than Codex generally.
• Desktop session: KDE
• Display: 1920x1080
• Embedded Codex CLI: 0.144.0-alpha.4