Ability to bypass/disable AGENTS.md pipeline (CLI)
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Oct 30, 2025 by robertmsale Closed Jan 20, 2026
What feature would you like to see?
This is a two-part feature.
- Ability to disable AGENTS chain loading completely with CLI argument
- Ability to offer alternative
For example:
codex --bypass-agentscodex --bypass-agents "$(cat alternative.md)"
Additional information
I think this would be very handy for a number of reasons.
- Helps with troubleshooting AGENTS pipeline
- Allows for auditing such as "explain how this feature is implemented, compare to AGENTS.md description" (Codex not pre-loaded with potentially inaccurate info, draws own conclusions)
- Enables switching out personas, or customizing load order by concatenating different files on launch (less janky than renaming AGENTS.md to something else, renaming something else to AGENTS.md and launching; adding/deleting AGENTS.override.md to switch personas)
Only thing I'm not sure about is how the project_doc_max_bytes would work with an override - whether it obeys truncation rules or not. I look forward to discussing the details, if anyone else is interested of course!
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