agent-signals

Screen codex/busy-background-v0-163-0

A turn runs a shell command. The busy line adds "1 background terminal running · /ps to view · /stop to close" after "esc to interrupt". Measured by the tg-bridge project with Codex CLI 0.163.0 (codex --no-daemon) in a private tmux server, and published in its report "Codex CLI and Cursor CLI as harnesses: measurements, 2026-10-24".

Expected state
BUSY
Agent version
Codex CLI 0.163.0
Provenance
measured-edited
The text of the screen codex/busy-background-v0-163-0: 120 columns by 40 rows, a plain capture.
› Run the shell command `sleep 20` and then reply SLEPT.
• Working (2s • esc to interrupt) · 1 background terminal running · /ps to view · /stop to close
› Ask Codex to do anything

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Expected result

state
BUSY
dialog
none

Metadata

agent
codex
agent_version
0.163.0
measured
2026-10-24
capture
plain
pane
120 columns, 40 rows
provenance
measured-edited
edits
  • the source report removed the empty lines of the capture
  • the project path is scrubbed to /work/example
  • the source report shows the update banner and the header only on its idle screen; this excerpt has the lines that the report shows
  • the source report shows the screen down to the input box only
facts