Allow codex thread start in plan mode
Open 💬 1 comment Opened Aug 2, 2026 by alexander-schranz
What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
It would be awesome if you could create a new codex thread via the codex thread deeplink in plan mode e.g.: codex://threads/new?mode=plan&prompt=...
Additional information
Allow better integration in other apps.
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Additional use case: parent-thread orchestration
The same capability is also needed when one Codex task creates and coordinates another Codex task.
Today, the Desktop agent-facing
create_threadtool requires an initialpromptand starts the new task immediately, but it does not exposecollaborationMode.send_message_to_threadalso cannot change the target task's collaboration mode. As a result, a parent task cannot create a new task whose first turn runs in native Plan mode; prompt text such as "plan only" can imitate the behavior, but it is not the real Plan mode.I verified locally that the underlying app-server already supports the required lifecycle:
The missing piece is exposing this through the Desktop task-management tools. Either of these API shapes would solve the orchestration case:
or:
Expected behavior:
This is closely related to the proposed
codex://threads/new?mode=plandeep-link parameter, but covers agent-to-agent/task orchestration in addition to external-app integration.