Hidden file edits marked as "Search" and "Explored"

Resolved 💬 1 comment Opened Jan 12, 2026 by benwaffle Closed Jan 13, 2026

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.80.0

What subscription do you have?

chatgpt plus

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.0.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

When codex decides to do an edit like the following command, using perl for the actual file updates, per the transcript:

rg -l "QkBindingController" presentation/src/main/java | xargs perl -pi -e 's/QkBindingController/QkController/g'

It is displayed in the main view as:

• Explored
  └ Search QkBindingController in java

Which is implying that it was a read-only operation.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. enter a new directory
  2. start codex
  3. ask it to update all files using "rg | xargs perl" to replace the number 1 with 2

What is the expected behavior?

It should indicate that there was a write. Ideally the full command would be shown as in claude code

Additional information

_No response_

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