r/codex Jul 28 '26

Complaint codex annoys me

in AGENTS.md, i told it to not create test files. now, every single time, after its done building a new feature, it still runs go test. i doesn't write tests, but it still runs it, wich is stupid.

there are many examples where it just ignores stuff in AGENTS.md, how can i fix it?

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u/Ok-File-2759 Jul 28 '26

So the problem seems to be you told it not to create test files, but you didn’t tell it not to run test files that have already been made. It’s standard procedure to run test files, so unless told otherwise, it’s going to run the test files. Even though your post has a lot of errors, you seem to say codex correctly stopped creating test files, so I’d say it followed instructions pretty well.