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 butt…

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.

Yeah, my productivity has nosedived since this change.

Same for me as well its incredibly frustrating

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.

Please bring this back. The dual search pattern compared to the single was also better. Sometimes I am asking something basic and it just codes.

btw, I think tasks just came back.

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 [image]

Are you able to catch how is the request to “Ask” and “Code” looks like? If the internal logic is still working, it’s solvable on the client side…

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…

Codex Web UI unable to generate tasks

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nicholas.a.ridge September 25, 2025, 7:55am 13

Are you adding this to custom instructions?

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Codex Web UI unable to generate tasks

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