What version of the IDE extension are you using?
26.417.40842
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which IDE are you using?
VSCode/.Cursor (same)
What platform is your computer?
No response
What issue are you seeing?
I am trying Codex (after years of using Cursor and months of Claude Code) and the system prompt looks bloated.
Asking a simple question "what is 2+2" consumes ~13k (13 thousand!) tokens. I don't have any skills, custom prompts, MCPs, my project's agents.md is 30 lines (500 tokens).
I interrogated Codex to tell me how big the system instructions are and it says:
A reasonable estimate for this session is:
* System instructions: 2k-4k
* Web/browsing policy and source-handling rules: 3k-5k
* Developer instructions for coding behavior/style/workflow: 3k-5k
* Tool schemas and tool descriptions: 2k-4k
* AGENTS.md and environment context: 0.5k-1k
* Your actual message: under 100
Pardon my French, this is nuts.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Ask "What is 2+2" in VScode extension, see this
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
No response
What version of the IDE extension are you using?
26.417.40842
What subscription do you have?
Plus
Which IDE are you using?
VSCode/.Cursor (same)
What platform is your computer?
No response
What issue are you seeing?
I am trying Codex (after years of using Cursor and months of Claude Code) and the system prompt looks bloated.
Asking a simple question "what is 2+2" consumes ~13k (13 thousand!) tokens. I don't have any skills, custom prompts, MCPs, my project's agents.md is 30 lines (500 tokens).
I interrogated Codex to tell me how big the system instructions are and it says:
Pardon my French, this is nuts.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Ask "What is 2+2" in VScode extension, see this
What is the expected behavior?
No response
Additional information
No response