Digest / February 7, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 7, 2026
61 new issues filed ·
20 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (61)
- Warn when CODEX_HOME is full; avoid silent loss of session history
- Unified exec: long-running background commands stops unexpectedly
- Pin selection of models with hotkey to swap between them.
- Codex App: conversation history lost on branch switch
- Open in: Zed is very buggy and unreliable.
- Codex App blank commit message autofill ignores configured Git commit message format (creates subject-only commit)[/-]
- Codex CLI: Add enforced PowerShell mode (rewrite/lint + exit-code aware execution) to fix Windows reliability
- Allow queueing `/review` requests while agent performs work, when steering is on
- Skills loader ignores symlinked SKILL.md (breaks Nix/Home Manager installs)
- High GPU usage and system lag with long conversation context on macOS
- Add Hand Off option
- Codex app is REALLY CPU hungry
- stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Regression: forced remote compaction removes local fallback and compaction visibility
- Xcode Codex sign-in fails in Safari when HTTPS-only / HTTP warning blocks http://localhost callback (WebKitErrorDomain:305)
- Regression Shift Tab no longer cycles plan mode
- Issue: CLI banner tells users “run codex app” even though codex app is not a CLI subcommand and the Codex desktop app is not available on Windows.
- Codex app crashes on macOS shortly after launch
- Bug: Messages in Codex are being trauncated
- opt out pre-main process hardening
- App UI gets stuck after some work (background work continues)
- Prefix every prompt with the active model version (e.g. 5.3)
- please add option to see our session limits on our plans inside codex app
- `git branch -d` blocked by policy despite sandbox_mode=danger-full-access (CLI 0.97.0/0.98.0)
- Codex App: developer_instructions (config.toml) are not attached to threads initiated within the App
- Codex - OpenAI's coding agent - Approval button lockup
- Codex wiped the whole drive by accident. Oops!
- Chat mode gone in VSCode extension!
- Codex locks-up / deadlocks if you steer just as it's printing final message
- VSCode: Add a project to use codex
- stream disconnected before completion
- Switching between threads is very slow
- Severe process spawning regression in Codex 5.3 (rg.exe / conhost.exe storm, system input stalls)
- Model changes to Medium uninstructed
- 0.98.0 breaks scrolling when running over ssh with iOS client apps
- MCP server extremely slow when analyzing project — hangs for minutes with no response
- Codex app crashes silently during task execution on MacBook Pro (M2 Pro)
- Can’t use GPT-5.3 even though it was mentioned in the release notes.
- Codex App: Project threads broken after moving project folder to new path
- Flake build fails on NixOS due to missing build dependencies for rama-boring-sys
- Add ability to update/migrate thread references when projects are moved to new locations
- Codex desktop app for Linux
- Codex App enters a crash loop after update
- TUI /agent picker shows stale closed agents after Agent closed events
- Bug: Enter key used to confirm Japanese IME composition submits answer in Plan Mode
- macOS: Codex.app repeatedly asks “would like to access data from other apps” and quits even after Allow
- Opening a thread puts you at top of conversation instead at bottom
- TUI: Initial lines of streamed output disappear during rendering (scrollback inaccessible)
- FATAL ERROR: Reached heap limit Allocation failed - JavaScript heap out of memory
- Is damaged and cant be opened
- VS Code extension: Chat/Agent mode selector disappeared after model switch and does not return
- Whitespace formatting is lost when you leave a new chat and come back to it before submitting
- : Intermittent “Awaiting approval” deadlock for safe read-only PowerShell commands
- I can't download the codex extension in vscode on a macbook pro Apple M4 Pro,
- Resume session view omits reasoning/code edits; request optional raw transcript display
- Performance degradation in Codex App with large Git changes, even when Diff Editor is not open
- "Introducing gpt-5.3-codex" message shown frequently / many times
- Codex VS Code – Tasks never load, sidebar stuck on infinite spinner (regression)
- Conversation interruption/steering broken with 0.98/5.3
- Pasted text placeholder has broken behavior for longer text
- Tools are sent to the model even if not configured
Resolved issues (20)
- Pin selection of models with hotkey to swap between them.
- Nix build fails: unwrap() in cargo-auditable/src/rustc_wrapper.rs
- Approval UI can deadlock when multiple shell commands request escalation in parallel
- Increase effective context window 272000 -> 350000
- Codex CLI: Add enforced PowerShell mode (rewrite/lint + exit-code aware execution) to fix Windows reliability
- `/review` to accept custom instructions up front (so we can queue requests)
- Skills loader ignores symlinked SKILL.md (breaks Nix/Home Manager installs)
- High GPU usage and system lag with long conversation context on macOS
- Constant requests to `https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/wham/usage` even in API mode
- Codex app is REALLY CPU hungry
- Issue: CLI banner tells users “run codex app” even though codex app is not a CLI subcommand and the Codex desktop app is not available on Windows.
- Bug: Messages in Codex are being trauncated
- Prefix every prompt with the active model version (e.g. 5.3)
- Codex - OpenAI's coding agent - Approval button lockup
- Chat mode gone in VSCode extension!
- Severe process spawning regression in Codex 5.3 (rg.exe / conhost.exe storm, system input stalls)
- Codex wiped the whole drive by accident. Oops!
- Codex App: Project threads broken after moving project folder to new path
- TUI: Initial lines of streamed output disappear during rendering (scrollback inaccessible)
- VS Code extension: Chat/Agent mode selector disappeared after model switch and does not return