diff --git a/codex-rs/core/src/custom_prompts.rs b/codex-rs/core/src/custom_prompts.rs
index 3785a0c42d..b2f75d61bc 100644
--- a/codex-rs/core/src/custom_prompts.rs
+++ b/codex-rs/core/src/custom_prompts.rs
@@ -52,12 +52,6 @@ pub fn discover_prompts_in_excluding(dir: &Path, exclude: &HashSet<String>) -> V
     out
 }
 
-/// Discover prompt files in the default prompts directory, excluding any with names in `exclude`.
-pub(crate) fn discover_prompts_excluding(exclude: &HashSet<String>) -> Vec<CustomPrompt> {
-    let dir = default_prompts_dir();
-    discover_prompts_in_excluding(&dir, exclude)
-}
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;