Support adding multiple directories in a single session
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Oct 18, 2025 by CollatzConjecture Closed Dec 8, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What feature would you like to see?
- This feature would be very helpful for people who work across different related repositories.
- It would be great to have the ability to add multiple directories into a single session, such as by selecting several folders from the slash command so codex can search and reference files across all directories seamlessly.
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3 Comments
This will be possible with --add-dir locally but please bring this to the app too!
Use case example: My Github account has two private repositories A and B, both of these are apps. I am working with Codex app on B but I want to tell it to look at how a certain feature was implemented in A and implement a feature in B similarly.
(Codex has access to both A and B individually)
Even something as simple as having to manually give Codex the git clone URL for A in B's session would suffice.
Thanks for the feature idea. This hasn't received any further upvotes or posts in a couple of months, so I'm going to close it.
Codex does allow you to specify multiple writable roots in your config file. It's admittedly a bit cumbersome, but it works in cases where it's needed.
+1