Question, how do I get the equivalent of Claude's "normal mode" in Codex CLI?

It is super annoying that it either vibe codes and just edits and use tools, or it has a plan mode, but no in-between where it asks me whether it's fine it does a or b.

I'm not understanding why it lacks such a capability, why in the world would I want to choose between having to copy paste the edits or auto accept them by default...

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klipklop 18 hours ago | parent [-]

Usually I give it a prompt that includes telling it to formulate a plan and not not do any coding until I approve. I will usually do several loops of that before I give it the instruction to go forward with the plan. I like to copy and paste the plan elsewhere because at times these LLM's can "forget" the plan. I usually do testing at each major milestone (either handed off to me or do builds/unit tests.)

	▲	epolanski 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, no way I'm doing copy pasting or allowing it to vibe it. I want it to help me come up with a plan, execute and check and edit every single edit but with the UX offered by claude, Codex is simply atrocious, I regret spending 23 euros on this. I see the visual studio code extension does offer something like this, but the UX/UI is terrible, doesn't OAI have people testing those things? The code is unreadable in that small window[1], doesn't show the lines above/below, it doesn't have IDE tooling (can't inspect types e.g.). https://i.imgur.com/mfPpMlI.png This is just not good, that's the kind of AI that slows me, doesn't help at all.