Digest / January 14, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — January 14, 2026
21 new issues filed ·
62 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (21)
- Interactive mode silently exits when ~/.codex/rules is a file instead of directory
- vi editing mode (like claude code /vim)
- Add generation replication
- resuming codex with <session-id> will lose some information
- Codex MCP: Unable to connect to Context7 (Docker startup timeout / npx server fails)
- VSCode Extension 0.5.59 doesn't persist the mode "Custom"
- Please make "/undo" back
- Plan mode on codex
- Codex could automatically use different models based on task type
- Rules are useless
- `/review` seems to be extremely verbose
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- os error 2 after Windows Update
- Support Token Counter for custom models
- Codex Remote Control
- exec not compatible with oss
- [BUG] Codex cannot discover scripts in skill's scripts directory
- VSCode Codex unexpected status 401 Unauthorized:
- Got blocked for safety reasons when I shouldn't have been
- Linux sandbox regression in v0.81: workspace-write fails with EPERM writing /proc/self/uid_map
- Not able to read/write in directories where the config.toml has configured that directory as a writable root
Resolved issues (62)
- Interactive mode silently exits when ~/.codex/rules is a file instead of directory
- Increase non interactive Mode Timeouts
- Allow specifying specific commands that don't need permission to run
- Configuration for inherited environment variables
- Add ability to open Codex chat in new window in VS Code
- Allow branch off from a past conversation in the current session
- Verbose output mode
- shortcut to copy output to clipboard
- Limited web search per request
- Setting key for 3rd party model provider through auth.json
- Add expand/collapse prompt view in codex resume picker with ←/→ keys
- Show Ctrl+T/Ctrl+C shortcuts in transcript overlay footer
- Otel metric exporer
- Add ability to add additional labels to otel events
- Support instance-level originator metadata
- Switch CLI update check to “once per calendar day” based on local timezone (have-we-checked-today) instead of 20h
- Add Vim-style navigation keys (k/j, Ctrl+U/Ctrl+D) to the transcript overlay pager
- Allow env variable in while configuring mcp in config toml
- Distinguish webFetch and webSearch
- gpt-5.2 stopped working - requests routing to gpt-5.1-codex-max instead
- VS Code Codex sidebar do not work with custom multi-stroke keybinding
- Error running remote compact task
- Missing conversationId of Codex MCP Server
- Documentation for Docker Desktop MCP Gateway
- Confusion between gpt 5.2 and codex models
- `docs/example-config.md`
- 'none' value for model_reasoning_summary rejected despite documentation stating it's valid
- `Allowlist` config ? `tried to run {command}, but this environment’s command allowlist blocked it`
- ERROR: exceeded retry limit, last status: 401 Unauthorized when using OPENAI_API_KEY
- Replace experimental_use_rmcp_client with [features].rmcp_client
- Add section on data privacy/security
- Show full file path on editor view code diff
- Codex SDK: Add abort() / cancel() method to stop active thread.run(...) calls
- Expose MCP management APIs in the TypeScript SDK (codex.mcp.*)
- Improve context window transparency: `/context` command providing detailed context window overview
- Feature Request: Minimal Line Editor Commands
- Tagging Codex From GitHub Issues Page
- Incorporate GPT 5 Prompt Optimizer into CLI with /optimize
- Feature Request: Add SlashCommand tool-style auto invocation to Codex CLI
- Display the shortcut for transcript mode next to long commands
- Added forward/back selection during Esc-Esc backtrack preview (code ready)
- Cost Tracking & Usage Analytics
- Ability to set prompt_cache_retention
- Support Task-Scoped Context with Session-Level Code Container to Reduce Redundant Token Usage
- Show Credits on VS Code Extension
- Terminal Buffer Logging
- Enhancement: Respect macOS “double-space for period” system preference
- Auto complete / Code completion
- Test mode for evaluating AGENTS.md changes
- Codex web: Allow environment duplication
- Add tab file name expansion (and file browsing) to @autocomplete
- feat: support handing off long prompts to external editor via Ctrl+G
- Request: resume shortcuts (tab completion, partial matches)
- Context window size at launch should approximate effect of `AGENTS.md`
- Plan mode on codex
- Change the CLI quit command to CTRL-C + CTRL-C
- Ctrl-C should not exit cli (linux)
- Odd "citeturn5view0turn6view0" placeholders in generated text
- Strange characters showing up at end of some paragraphs (VS Code Ext)
- citations have a weird display
- exec not compatible with oss
- Linux sandbox regression in v0.81: workspace-write fails with EPERM writing /proc/self/uid_map