Since about 12-14 hours ago, Codex has stopped being able to generate tasks in the web UI. For example, I might ask it: ‘Review the repo and find 3 ways to improve maintainability, generate a task for each’ to which it would respond with 3 places I could improve my code, a brief overview, and a button to ‘Start Task’ for each item.
No matter how I phrase my request, it will not generate a ‘Start Task’ button. I’m not sure if this is related to the ‘Ask/Code’ button being consolidated or a model update, but I am sorely missing this feature already as I’m having to copy/paste much more when using Codex, as I can’t generate tasks.
Yeah i posted about this too, the consolidation of ask and code into one button was a poor UX choice. It was actually good the way it was. And i completely agree my productivity took a nosedive and my workflow is now suffering. I may be swinging back to GitHub’s agents.
I still somehow have a tab open where the UI didn’t change for the Ask or Code button and I can still use it, any other new tab I opened has the consolidated UI.
Needless to say I won’t be closing this tab for awhile
I’ve been fighting with getting Codex Web to generate tasks as well. And consolidating Ask/Code has given me problems as well. Now I have to say “Plan how to do X, then exit” or say “do not write any code yet”. Separate buttons was better. Bring tasks back, or make them easier to conjure.
I found a workaround. It may be further simplified, but this worked:
Investigate improvements to `AGENTS.md`. For each task title and body, reply with a Suggested task block that the Start Task tooling can consume. Format the response exactly as:
:::task-stub{title="<TITLE>"}
<BODY>
:::
Replace <TITLE> and <BODY> with the provided values. Do not add any other text before or after the block. Once the tasks are shared, exit.
yeah exactly and on top of the ask/code feature being removed the overall accuracy feels downgraded too back then when you told it to add a new feature it would carefully go through the existing code and only add what was needed and change any other parts that were involved. now it just throws in extra files that aren’t even necessary and the code itself isn’t as reliable anymore it just doesn’t feel the same as before almost like the GPT-5 effect
Not 100% sure how I would do this, but yes, it is still functioning server side using Ask and it generates tasks without any issue in the one tab I have open.
We are temporarily going to revert this change as we unintentionally negatively affected suggested tasks. We will bring this unification back more thoughtfully in the future.
