Adopt multi-platform extensions for Codex VS Code extnesions
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Nov 19, 2025 by isidorn Closed Feb 23, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What feature would you like to see?
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Right now Codex extension ships platform specific binaries that make the extension large.
Please make Codex a platform specific extension https://code.visualstudio.com/api/working-with-extensions/publishing-extension#platformspecific-extensions
Using those steps you can package the platform specific binaries only for the required platform. It will make your extension smaller. Thus the install / update process will be much better
If you have any questions let me know
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4 Comments
Closing in favor of #2766.
I suggest to keep this one actually, since the recommendation how to solve is more on-point. You should not download binaries in post-install, but instead make the extension platform-specific. Post-install downloads might not work for enterprises that have strict network settings. Also the first extension startup will be slower (you have to download)
@etraut-openai @anoop-openai this one would actually help with download / update speed of your extension. It will make a very meaningful impact for all the users that are not on high-speed internet. I suggest to keep it open
This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so I'm closing it.