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Codex tends to "reanswer" previous questions #10446

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@jiaxi98
jiaxi98
opened on Feb 3, 2026

What version of Codex is running?

0.94.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.2-codex

What platform is your computer?

Linux 5.4.0-81-generic x86_64 x86_64

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

No response

What issue are you seeing?

I am asking codex to init a job. While upon finishing, it automatically starts to answer a few questions I asked before this turn (which has already been answered). It is not bug but not sure if this is caused by some context management.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Uploaded thread: 019c192e-ee35-7f22-931a-e1a0f478198f

What is the expected behavior?

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  1. jiaxi98
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  2. github-actions commented on Feb 3, 2026

    @github-actions
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    on Feb 3, 2026 – with GitHub Actions
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    Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

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  3. etraut-openai
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    on Feb 3, 2026

  4. etraut-openai commented on Feb 3, 2026

    @etraut-openai
    etraut-openai
    on Feb 3, 2026
    Contributor

    Thanks for reporting. Yes, this is likely due to an auto compaction. We've received other reports of this behavior and are looking at ways to fix it.

    Since we're already tracking this, I'm going to close it as a duplicate of #10346

  5. etraut-openai
    closed this as a duplicateof Automatic context compaction causes Codex to lose track of the current turn and start trying to re-perform the previous turn instead #10346 on Feb 3, 2026

  6. Tsury commented on Mar 8, 2026

    @Tsury
    Tsury
    on Mar 8, 2026

    Suffering from this as well, A LOT since 5.4 btw

  7. Robin-kwan commented on May 4, 2026

    @Robin-kwan
    Robin-kwan
    on May 4, 2026

    +1 I've been having this issue for a few months. Really frustrated, especially when they repeated the long answers.

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