Codex is ignoring instructions, agents.md and making stuff up as it goes along -- it's become very hard to actually use for productive development.
Resolved 💬 2 comments Opened Nov 27, 2025 by pippu Closed Nov 27, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
0.63.0
What subscription do you have?
Max
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1-codex high
What platform is your computer?
Linux codistry-1 6.8.0-86-generic #87-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Sep 22 18:03:36 UTC 2025 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
What issue are you seeing?
Codex is ignoring instructions, agents.md and making stuff up as it goes along -- it's become very hard to actually use for productive development.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Uploaded thread: 019ac630-34cb-7351-a896-e483c3082817
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
_No response_
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