@ symbol seems to only autocomplete one level down from CWD.
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Sep 17, 2025 by ocolluphid Closed Jan 10, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.38.0
Which model were you using?
codex-medium
What platform is your computer?
linux-ubuntu24
What steps can reproduce the bug?
just try using @ from any project folder and you can only see autocomplete for one level down.
What is the expected behavior?
ideally autocomplete would search entire codebase and provide better suggestions
What do you see instead?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
4 Comments
Similar problem here, on macOS 15.7.1 running OpenAI Codex (v0.46.0) in the default mac Terminal. Autocompleting paths with
@used to work well, matching a deeply nested file by name, but this broke sometime in the last several versions (or something changed in my configuration)? Now it only discovers top level, and seemingly random files. See this screenshot, where searching for@GameNumbeshould (and used to) match several files, but now it only finds one.<img width="1267" height="655" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/141e021d-c80e-4294-85e9-f9cd1666cc03" />
It does seem to match top-level files though, as @ocolluphid indicated.
I am seeing the same problem in Ghosttty 1.2.2
Something else is off. Note that the directory above is
~/phet/root, but the relative path to the discovered file isjs/game/view/GameNumberLineNode.ts. It should have matchednumber-pairs/js/game/view/GameNumberLineNode.tsinstead. Somehow it is missing that top directory.Testing the hypothesis that something was off in my configuration, I cleared my
~/.codexand re-initialized, usingOpenAI Codex (v0.46.0). This had the same symptom (cannot discover files with@symbol)Closing old bug.