VS Code extension showing debug panel?
Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Dec 17, 2025 by btraut Closed Jan 27, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
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What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.60.1, vs code extension 0.4.52
What subscription do you have?
Pro
Which model were you using?
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What platform is your computer?
Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
When returning to an existing conversation, I saw a strange green panel overlay flash on the screen for a few seconds and then disappear. I've noticed this a few times since, but it's unclear to me what the trigger is.
<img width="564" height="331" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a91f464a-1bed-45a9-a467-d7f1d3670754" />
What steps can reproduce the bug?
This happened most recently when I clicked on the past conversations icon and chose one to restore, but I don't have a consistent repro on it.
What is the expected behavior?
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Additional information
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3 Comments
Thanks for the bug report. This is a toast notification that's telling you about a deprecated feature that you have configured (
web_search_request). Look in yourconfig.tomlfile to see if you can find this text and delete it.The styling for this toast looks wrong. It shouldn't be semi-transparent like that. We inherit this particular style from VS Code. For me, this toast appears as an opaque green color. I'm not sure why it's appearing as semi-transparent green for you. We'll need to investigate further.
Yep, that was it! Thanks. Removing the deprecated property fixed the issue. I'll leave it up to you folks what you'd like to do about the styling.
Sidenote: I find it pretty wild that Codex's default is to disable web search, and even more wild that the only way to enable is to edit a config file with a value I needed to look up online. But I suppose that's a matter for a separate issue.
This is fixed in the next release of the Codex IDE Extension.