Hitting Ctrl+C once should interrupt the model and give you a chance to redirect it

@fouad-openai

Currently, hitting Ctrl+C interrupts the model in the Rust TUI, but if you submit another message, the model is generally confused and you cannot actually continue your conversation with new instructions. I believe this is because there is almost always inevitably a tool call outstanding when this happens and when the user hits Ctrl+C, we just fail to respond.

I believe this is because we need to respond with "aborted" along the lines of:

codex/codex-cli/src/utils/agent/handle-exec-command.ts

Lines 363 to 373 in 029f39b

    
           return { 
        
             outputText: "aborted", 
        
             metadata: {}, 
        
             additionalItems: [ 
        
               { 
        
                 type: "message", 
        
                 role: "user", 
        
                 content: [{ type: "input_text", text: note }], 
        
               }, 
        
             ], 
        
           };

so that the model has a response to the tool call, after which it will consider the next user message.

/cc @fouad-openai to confirm this

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Hitting Ctrl+C once should interrupt the model and give you a chance to redirect it #1244

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	return {
	outputText: "aborted",
	metadata: {},
	additionalItems: [
	{
	type: "message",
	role: "user",
	content: [{ type: "input_text", text: note }],
	},
	],
	};

Hitting Ctrl+C once should interrupt the model and give you a chance to redirect it #1244

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gpeal commented on Jun 24, 2025

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