Digest / January 31, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — January 31, 2026
16 new issues filed ·
57 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (16)
- Support otel metrics exporter
- Problem with resume
- Codex VS Code extension fails to recognize the file I’ve opened or the code I’ve selected
- Diff view shows "No diff data" until file is clicked again
- Failed to load apps: Request failed with status 403 forbidden
- secret
- Please add a status bar a la claude code cli that states your current working folder, your github branch if it's dirty etc. colored.
- Update codex using pnpm
- Add a dedicated read_file tool for Codex (apply_patch is not enough)
- The application panicked (crashed). Message: /tmp is absolute: Os { code: 1, kind: PermissionDenied, message: "Operation not permitted" }
- GPT 5.2's security mechanisms are excessive and hinder normal development.
- Prompt name filtering fails for partial matches
- /experimental doesn’t list collaboration_mode but /plan requires it (v0.93.0)
- Codex CLI: Enable access to ChatGPT conversations
- CLI: add `--from-pr` to `codex resume` and `codex exec resume`
- ask_user_question: Tab-to-notes sometimes cannot type notes
Resolved issues (57)
- Codex VS Code extension fails to recognize the file I’ve opened or the code I’ve selected
- Problem with resume
- HTTP connection pool timeout mismatch causes request failures with some third-party providers
- OSS mode outputting chunks
- Tool result ordering is incorrect
- Parallel tool_calls cause "tool_call_id missing response" error
- Undo code
- Change rate limit accounting
- Support notify for user approval events
- StatusEngine for TUI status display
- `--enable` and `--disable` should list available feature keys when no value is provided
- @!filename override to force the reading of an entire file
- please consider temporary back-compat or clearer error; rmcp stdio client: handshake fails on legacy `notifications/message` ({level,message})
- Push Notification upon Task Completion
- Continued interaction during processing times
- When code review limits are hit use the other limits!
- Codex IDE really needs the /init command
- Stop blocking commands when MCP servers start
- Regularly clean up historical session data
- Improve verification
- Allow configurable reasoning efforts for Review Mode
- A way to reload MCP server
- Tab key support for selection item
- Add full RTL (Right-To-Left) text direction support for Arabic & Hebrew users
- Add automatic Toon conversion if json files are used
- MCP request meta data to MCP server
- Feature Request: Persistent Pre-Prompt via `/prep` Command a **persistent pre-prompt** that is automatically prepended to every user prompt in a Codex session.
- Direct MCP tool invocation
- Proposal: opt-in JSONL run tracing for codex-cli (CODEX_TRACE_PATH)
- Ability to choose task based on Session ID
- Allow writing to zig global cache
- Support customizing system prompt in exec?
- Clicking the Codex IDE icon allows you to open Codex in the terminal on the right side
- slash commands parity in vscode extension
- stream disconnected before completion: UTF8 error: invalid utf-8 sequence of 1 bytes from index 0
- codex 5.1 max migration prompt won't hide
- Codex hanging because of reconnection issue
- VSCode Extension expands some 'Ran <command>' outputs by itself
- Slash commands fail when input is long and pasted (Codex CLI replaces input with “[Pasted Content XXX chars]” and Speckit workflows stop executing)
- Compact not working
- Status bar spikes to 100% left while working
- Edited file making zero changes
- Window refresh's mid chat conversation and all history is lost.
- Undocumented ~7-8 MB size limit on SQLite databases in workspace-write sandbox mode
- MCP tool call fails with transport disconnect and invalid CallToolResult (missing content) on gpt-5.1-codex-max
- [Bug] CLI returns success but applies no changes when LLM-generated diff has minor whitespace mismatches
- failing to apply code
- Prompt input don't look good on MacOS transparent terminal
- codex --version error
- VS Code extension does not work with custom model provider
- Codex no longer can run git push but it can before
- Add a dedicated read_file tool for Codex (apply_patch is not enough)
- GPT 5.2's security mechanisms are excessive and hinder normal development.
- Prompt name filtering fails for partial matches
- Diff view shows "No diff data" until file is clicked again
- Codex CLI: Enable access to ChatGPT conversations
- Multiple Nix build failures