Eight Codex Config Tweaks That Fix the 'Worse Than Doubao' Problem

I'm Brother Biscuit. I gave everyone on the NGS team a $200 Codex Pro subscription.

Last week, someone on the team told me: Codex is worse than Doubao; without it, I can't get anything done!!

I was shocked. It's the exact same plan, yet the other side has been going crazy with it.

I pulled up the settings from both sides and compared them. It's not a Codex problem — these 8 configurations weren't touched. Everyone, check yourselves!

01 Permission Mode Click Settings → General → Permissions → Turn on Full Access. The default permission asks for confirmation every time a file is modified. I usually just mindlessly max out the permissions to avoid being interrupted by pop-ups.

02 Personalization Click the settings in the bottom left corner, find Personalization. Change the tone from the default "Affable" to "Pragmatic" to cut the fluff; Turn on the memory function to remember user preferences; For custom instructions, search GitHub for "forrestchang/andrej-karpathy-skills" — the open-source rules written by Karpathy complaining about the Agent. Just copy and paste the whole block in.

03 Follow-up Behavior Click the settings in the bottom left corner, find General. Under Editor, switch the default "Queue" to "Guide"; This lets you interject and correct mistakes mid-task without waiting for it to finish and redoing the work.

04 Session Management When a session freezes or the context is too long to salvage. Right-click the task and "Copy Session ID", then give it to another dialog window to continue editing; If the background is complete but you want to branch off, choose "Continue in New Task".

05 Computer Control Find "Computer Control" in settings, and turn on the "Any Application" and Google Chrome options; For daily app operations and web browsing, let Codex freely play with your computer.

06 Search Tasks When you have too many tasks to scroll through, click the search icon 🔍 at the top of the left sidebar. A panel pops up to search tasks directly, which is faster than scrolling through the list.

07 Voice Dictation Click "Voice" in settings, set up a shortcut key; Start dictating anytime, anywhere. It automatically transcribes to Chinese, faster than typing.

08 Reconnection Issues If you keep encountering the "Reconnecting 5/5" problem, it's because Codex wants to use WebSocket, and the proxy doesn't support it, causing repeated reconnections.

First, throw the following prompt to Codex to fix it: " Please help me fix the 'reconnection' issue: Back up config.toml to config.toml.bak, add a new provider (name openai_http, wire_api=responses, supports_websockets=false, requires_openai_auth=true, skip if the same name already exists), change the top model_provider to openai_http, and tell me what you changed when done. "

If it still gets stuck, there's another method: " Help me detect the local proxy port. First check if .codex/.env already exists and back up the existing content. If the port is found, update or append these two proxy lines without overwriting the whole file; If not found, ask me; tell me exactly what was changed and how the port was determined when done. " Then restart and it should be fine.

(* If you find sessions are fewer after changing this, it's a normal phenomenon of grouping by provider. Just change it back.)