codex - 💡(How to fix) Fix missing context % usage in new version [3 comments, 3 participants]

What version of Codex CLI is running?

codex-cli 0.120.0

What subscription do you have?

API Key:

Which model were you using?

gpt-codex-5.4.

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.3.0 arm64 arm

What terminal emulator and version are you using (if applicable)?

ghostty

What issue are you seeing?

Since a recent upgrade, I no longer see the % left of the context window. I noticed that this may be intentional as we now have decent auto-compaction, but in the cli I like to have more control myself rather than this being abstracted away. Sometimes the agent does start acting "drunk" and I rather have control over this as to continue like that, or start a new session. I sometimes rather do either my own /compact when I want, or even instructing the agent to write a Handoff.md for the next agent, but I prefer to do this myself and not rely on auto-compaction. Having more control, is the reason I prefer the cli over codex desktop too. Thank you for your consideration.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

% usage / tokens left in context window is not longer shown.

What is the expected behavior?

I can see the % usage as before

Additional information

As a cli user I like to have more control over the "raw machine", not too much, like we had to decide before the temperature, but with the token window I rather not auto handle that.