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Codex Issues / #4466

Agents.MD being ignored

Resolved 💬 5 comments Opened Sep 29, 2025 by jamneutrino Closed Dec 23, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.42

Which model were you using?

GPT5Codex Medium

What platform is your computer?

Windows with WSL

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Agents.MD has "always begin your first response by reading the changelog and readme" plus other instructions.

What is the expected behavior?

First message of chat should start with reading those files

What do you see instead?

Model does NOT read the changelog and readme or follow other AGENTS.md instructions

Additional information

This seemed to have broken for me recently. I have simple things like on your first response read the README and CHANGELOG files which it used to do. But now it ignores my agents file

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5 Comments

PaulRBerg · 10 months ago

I have an ~/.codex/AGENTS.md file but it is not read by codex v0.44:

<img width="400" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ddb82018-892f-4e0c-90c9-5ad79911a99f" />

<img width="400" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f949b0c1-acde-4ab7-83b8-ba9fd77b4065" />

PaulRBerg · 10 months ago

Related: https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/3793

etraut-openai contributor · 8 months ago

I think this was fixed long ago. Closing.

inancgumus · 6 months ago

This still happens for me.

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

@inancgumus, if you suspect a bug here, please use the /feedback slash command to upload your logs and session details and file a new bug report with details including the thread ID.