Add Tool Call Visibility as an Option

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Aug 21, 2026 by witherhoard99 Closed Aug 26, 2026

What variant of Codex are you using?

CLI v149

What feature would you like to see?

Add tool call visibility as a config.toml option, similar to how it was before.

I understand that some people prefer this new collapsed view for tool calls (only showing x tool calls ran) such as here.

However, I, along with other people, would much prefer being able see tool calls for several reasons (one of them being to steer the model if the user observes the agent making a mistake). The ctrl + T mode is fine for viewing command output, but with the number of sed calls being run with massive output, the ctrl + T mode is not practical for viewing tool calls.

The raw mode is only for copying, it becomes too much to read when there is a lot going on.

This is especially relevant with the lack of output from modern OpenAI models explaining what they are doing (such as when debugging).

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3 Comments

siddhpant · 7 days ago

+1, I keep auditing what codex is doing and the compactness is a hostile change to that.

otanim · 6 days ago

This "feature" must be disabled by default, its the worst change since Plan mode's timer's integration - making it unusable.

This is a serious UX regression. Commands are actions executed on the user’s machine, and users should be able to see them continuously in the primary TUI without opening a separate transcript. Requiring Ctrl+T adds friction precisely where transparency and auditability matter most.

Please keep individual command activity visible, or provide a dedicated option to disable command compaction while preserving the normal rich TUI. tui.raw_output_mode = true is not an equivalent solution because it replaces the rich renderer rather than disabling this one compaction behavior.

I'm reverting Codex back to 0.148.0 until this bug is not fixed.

siddhpant · 3 days ago

Please mark this as duplicate of other one so everyone goes to the right issue.

Yeah this was the original, but the other blew up.