Append the instructions of the MCP servers to the system prompt

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Nov 3, 2025 by hzy Closed Dec 31, 2025
$ codex --version
codex-cli 0.53.0

What feature would you like to see?

Append the instructions of the MCP servers to the system prompt, or somewhere the LLM can see.

The behavior of Claude Code:

<img width="1524" height="576" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/15d11e0e-a486-473d-9a27-510ef26c3bf5" />

MCP servers response the instructions from the "initialize" request:

<img width="1364" height="1154" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9aa8749f-57ae-49ea-8cde-3f8b465c05e8" />

This usage is also used by the official Github MCP server:

(from their blog)

https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/blob/main/pkg/github/instructions.go#L10

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