Blue inline links in extension lead to poor user experience in many cases

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Dec 25, 2025 by btraut Closed Mar 29, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of Codex is running?

0.63.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

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What platform is your computer?

_No response_

What issue are you seeing?

<img width="944" height="266" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4b09ef36-eb96-4000-9d50-7fc5d1b86efa" />

I like the idea of linkifying file paths and URLs, but there's a number of problems with their current implementation:

  1. In cases such as the one above, the agent is trying to tell me something about the hostname, but the hostname is stripped off and I must hover in order to understand what it's saying.
  1. Worse still, I've seen a number of cases where it failed to differentiate between many files that were named similarly but different only in (hidden) base path. I don't have a screenshot handy, but it said something along the lines of, "This problem happened in <package.json> and <package.json>, but not <package.json>".
  1. All these links show a cursor:pointer when very few of them are actually clickable. It's a great feature to be able to click them to navigate to parts of the code or to pop a URL into my browser, but if it's not actually a real URL I'm intended to follow, it doesn't make sense to linkify or give me a pointer.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

See conversation id 019b543d-d834-7211-84d7-f596097e6494. I'm not sure how to repro exactly, but it's not too hard to prompt your way into similar issues.

What is the expected behavior?

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Additional information

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 8 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #5016
  • #1575
  • #4344
  • #5013

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btraut · 7 months ago

Here's yet another case where these blue links completely obfuscate what the model is intending to say, and the boxes even pick up an end quote erroneously.

<img width="715" height="202" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3612f576-477c-4679-a712-fd7fbbdd44b9" />

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This bug report hasn't received any upvotes or additional posts in three months. Closing.