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Add option to suppress non-fatal startup warnings #24070
Please add a CLI/config option to disable or hide non-fatal yellow startup warnings in the Codex CLI.
Motivation
Some warnings are useful during setup, but can become persistent noise when they are known, non-blocking, or intentionally deferred. For example, on startup Codex currently prints warnings like:
⚠ Skipped loading 2 skill(s) due to invalid SKILL.md files.
⚠ /Users/dhruvanand/.codex/skills/canvas/SKILL.md: missing field `description`
⚠ /Users/dhruvanand/.agents/skills/canvas/SKILL.md: missing field `description`
⚠ MCP client for `html-portal` failed to start: MCP startup failed: handshaking
with MCP server failed: connection closed: initialize response
⚠ MCP startup incomplete (failed: html-portal)
These are visible every time even when the CLI can otherwise continue normally.
Requested behavior
Add a supported way to suppress these non-fatal warnings, for example one of:
a config setting in ~/.codex/config.toml, such as hide_startup_warnings = true
a CLI flag, such as --quiet-startup-warnings
a more granular setting to disable specific warning categories, such as invalid skills vs MCP startup failures
Ideally errors that prevent Codex from running would still be shown; the request is specifically about warnings that do not block startup.
Activity
github-actions commentedon May 22, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
computer-usefailed to start #22856Powered by Codex Action
dhruv-anand-aintech commentedon May 22, 2026
not duplicates of those
lamka02sk commentedon Aug 10, 2026
Guys, it is august. AI can probably implement this in a blink of an eye.
skibitskiy commentedon Sep 2, 2026
This is annoying