Add persistent user preference recall across Codex CLI conversations
OpenAI Developer Community
June 20, 2026
Yes, currently this has not been implemented in the way @adrian.a.adewunmi is describing it.
My suggestion to use a master project to provide personal preferences to individual projects is just an idea for a workaround. I think it can work well across quite a few use cases, but it is definitely not the same as a central preference setting.
Following this conversation, I just wanted to add one small detail that may be helpful when working with agents: there can be several agents.md files inside a project. For example, a large monorepo can benefit from this.
Agents are trained to always read the nearest agents.md file. This is another way to stay in control. Codex, for example, re-reads agents.md after a context compaction.
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