Hi everyone, I’d like to propose an improvement specifically for the official OpenAI Codex extension for Visual Studio Code (Codex – OpenAI’s coding agent). Right now, when this extension performs code edits, it applies changes directly to the file. That works fine for small adjustments, but it qu…

Hi @isaacT, this is a really thoughtful suggestion, and honestly, a fair one. Right now the Codex extension applies edits directly, which is fast, but as you pointed out, it can get hard to track what changed once the edits get larger. Especially in professional workflows, being able to review a dif…

Helo, I just switched over from another IDE/extension where this was a native feature. Without it, I can’t clearly see what Codex has changed, and I need a way to track those edits. My codebase is 50,000 lines long; when it modifies 20 different locations, I can’t verify if the changes are correct o…

Is there any movement here? This is the only thing that prevents me from entirely switching from Cursor to Codex. Are there workarounds? Hunk-level Accept/Reject is a must-have and VSCode seem to already support it.

I registered on the forum just to put my vote for this feature be implemented faster.

+1, all agentic coding providers have this (AntiGravity, Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor…), besides Codex… :frowning: I am also missing that when I enter the plan mode, it auto-creates the bullets, and I can clearly see which bullet it is currently implementing in the agent mode.

+1 for this, I would like to switch from cursor to codex, hunk-level accept/reject is a must-have

+1. Trying to switch to codex as well, and this is an absolute must. Copilot showed the differences intuitively, and I was able to reject anything I didn’t like. Has there been any progress on this?

+1 need more control of codex in the IDE extenstion.

The entire Codex has this mentality of exactly what OpenAI says. Right now the Codex extension applies edits directly, which is fast, Guys, that’s NOT ok. The goal of an AI is to work WITH the human, the human reviews and guides the code in real time. An AI that makes rapid changes with out hum…

Feature request: Diff preview + granular accept/reject workflow in OpenAI Codex VS Code extension

ChatGPT Feature requests

Ehsan_Ahmad_Khan April 29, 2026, 9:30am 9

same issue with me I use windsurf along with codex but I need more control with codex due to this I only use codex in limited capacity to review the code changes only.

Topic		Replies	Views
Improvement Suggestion for the VS Code Extension – Codex (OpenAI) Codex CLI chatgpt	0	170	September 19, 2025
Feature request: Add a real code editor to Codex App like Cursor Codex	1	92	April 25, 2026
Codex VSCode Extension - Tiny fixed size review window Codex vscode	3	467	April 14, 2026
Add a “Restore to Pre-Prompt State” Feature in Codex for VSCode Codex codex , feature-request , codex-app	2	95	April 13, 2026
Feature Request – VSCode Extension Integrating Codex with ChatGPT Subscription & Windsurf Codex CLI codex , codex-cli	2	3627	April 12, 2026

Feature request: Diff preview + granular accept/reject workflow in OpenAI Codex VS Code extension

Related topics