In the Codex VS Code interface, commentary and progress messages disappear or are collapsed when the final answer is displayed. These messages often contain useful engineering explanations that users may still be reading.
Please provide an option to preserve them in the conversation and append the final answer below them, or at least keep them accessible through an expandable “Work log” section.
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That’s probably an interesting feature. I do hope they make thinking more transparent in general, but all indications point to no 
One thing you can do in the meantime is have it post little checkpoint summaries into a rest endpoint as it goes along.
I personally found it less useful than expected - more noise than anything, but it might be useful for post-mortems. It’s important IMO to keep these products out of your git history.
+1 for an expandable “Work log” section. Maybe even toss it in the sidebar along with subagent activity but keep it persistent.
As a Codex user managing several projects, I need a persistent work log so that I can quickly re-orient when flipping between sessions.
Hey bernard.dautrevaux, welcome to the forum!
Thanks for sharing this! Keeping progress updates available after a task finishes would make it easier to pick up where you left off. We’ll pass this to the product team. We don’t have a timeline to share.
Avinash