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In Codex Desktop, Plan mode questions created via request_user_input show an info icon next to each option, but hovering over the icon does not display the option description.

This makes the UI hard to use when the short option label is not enough to understand the tradeoff. In my case, I could not confidently select an option because the important explanatory text was only available behind the info icon.

Root Cause

This makes the UI hard to use when the short option label is not enough to understand the tradeoff. In my case, I could not confidently select an option because the important explanatory text was only available behind the info icon.

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Summary

In Codex Desktop, Plan mode questions created via request_user_input show an info icon next to each option, but hovering over the icon does not display the option description.

This makes the UI hard to use when the short option label is not enough to understand the tradeoff. In my case, I could not confidently select an option because the important explanatory text was only available behind the info icon.

Environment

  • App: Codex Desktop
  • Platform: Windows x64
  • Codex App version: 26.513.4821.0
  • Comparison:
    • VS Code: the option description/tooltip interaction works as expected.
    • Terminal Codex: there is no hover UI involved, so this specific problem does not occur there.
    • Codex Desktop: the descriptions appear to be hidden behind the info icon, but hover does not reveal them.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Use Codex Desktop in Plan mode.
  2. Trigger a request_user_input question with multiple options where each option has a description.
  3. Hover the info icon next to any option.

Expected behavior

The option description should appear as a tooltip/popover on hover.

Ideally, there should also be a click or keyboard-accessible fallback, because these descriptions can be essential for making the selection.

Actual behavior

Hovering the info icon does nothing. No tooltip or popover appears.

The option labels remain visible, but the descriptions are inaccessible in the Desktop app UI.

Impact

This can make Plan mode questions effectively unusable when the descriptions contain the information needed to choose between options. The issue is especially noticeable when option labels are concise but the real tradeoffs are in the hidden descriptions.

Related context

There are other open Desktop hover/tooltip issues, but I could not find one specifically for request_user_input option info icons in Plan mode.

Disclosure: this issue report was drafted collaboratively with Codex. The bug was observed by a human user; Codex helped structure the report and reproduction details.

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Expected behavior

The option description should appear as a tooltip/popover on hover.

Ideally, there should also be a click or keyboard-accessible fallback, because these descriptions can be essential for making the selection.

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