Context remaining and compact feature in Codex IDE extension
Resolved 💬 7 comments Opened Sep 22, 2025 by sudarshan227 Closed Oct 22, 2025
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What feature would you like to see?
I was wondering if there was a way to view context remaining and compact conversations in the VSCode IDE extension. If not, this would be very beneficial.
Are you interested in implementing this feature?
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https://developers.openai.com/codex/ide/
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I'm in the same boat. I want to see the Context that is supposed to be there already...
This is crucial. Please add it soon
An auto-compact would be nice if the model is likely going to reach the capacity of the context window.
Yea this makes IDE kind of un-usable when we have no idea of the context left
Well, I discovered you can at least see the remaining quotas in the "local" popup menu (although this should be shown more prominent, not hidden behind two submenus). Running into a full context window is a hard blocking wall, there's no way to send a "compact" command as you could do in the CLI.
compacting is needed asap
Context usage shipped recently. Duplicating against #4924 for
/compact. It should be launching soon. Thanks for your patience.