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Codex agents reply in the thread instead of nesting under the mention - #851
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…tion Codex defaulted send's reply to the triggering message, so a mention inside a thread nested the answer under that reply. Default to the thread root (or the top-level message itself), point <context> reply_to there, and use Claude Code's threading wording. Signed-off-by: morgmart <98432065+morgmart@users.noreply.github.com>
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AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L194-L204
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What changes
A Codex agent mentioned inside a thread now answers in that thread, not nested under the message that mentioned it, which matches Claude Code. It still nests or posts top-level only when the human explicitly asks.
Before, the Codex plugin filled in
send's defaultreplywith the triggering message. In an open thread, that message is usually itself a reply, so each answer started a sub-thread under it. Its<context>also labelled that message asreply_to. Claude Code instead tells the model to reply at the thread root.replyis now the thread root, or the top-level message itself (rootOf, already used for the tool thread).<context>reply_topoints at the same root.sendreplies in the request’s thread; a top-level request starts its own thread. Passchannelonly when the human asks for a top-level post."), replacing "Without channel or reply, tools use the latest accepted request’s thread." The code default does the enforcing, so no emphasis is added.No change to session scope, steering, tools or the DM case beyond replying at its thread root like Claude Code.
Validation
vitest run src/bundled/codex: 45 pass. Four runtime tests asserted the old nested-reply tags; they now expect the direct thread-root reply.tsc --noEmit; pre-commit and pre-push hooks pass.