Digest / February 8, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 8, 2026
57 new issues filed ·
32 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (57)
- ID 019c3ac3-535f-71d1-9cd5- 228c7b527e6b
- Include a `skill_name` on OTel tool events
- Context compactization forgets current mission
- App: When moving right from a selected plan mode question, SELECTED status persists
- When moving right from a selected plan mode question, SELECTED status persists
- Keybinding to focus text box
- Codex session disconnects during long-running/high-output commands on Windows PowerShell (aborted / Unknown process id)
- Staging first file in edits sometimes does not hide first item
- Sometimes unable to cmd+enter to push queued steer
- Easily share user preferences across machines
- Steering broken - codex stops ongoing work and steers off completely
- TUI: cursor jank during streaming/scroll + occasional bottom-pane drift
- 5.3-Codex isn't very good at remembering that a task is running in the background
- Experimental skills Github link is 404ing
- Allow refreshing / loading new skills without restarting the cli
- vscodium + codex: Can't install openai.chatgpt extension because its not omcpatibler VSCodium version 1.76.2 + Debian Stable trixi
- Suddenly fails to compact by itself and it shows 0 token usage.
- Context compaction triggered after tool calls in a fresh session
- Feature request: Custom colorscheme / Codex app
- Codex App: Type branch name to use
- Allow specifying `model` type to be used in a skill
- Dead loop
- High CPU when idle due to stdin EOF busy-loop after terminal is closed (/dev/pts/10)
- Code section formatting by Codex (using ` U+0060) leads to broken file location link
- @filename autocomplete not working
- Codex App seems to not actually load the files in the Cloud branch for a given task
- Codex Cloud screenshots are missing in Codex App
- `429 Too Many Requests` somehow
- New worktrees set to a new branch do not checkout the branch itself, just the commit
- App: duplicate conversation
- App: message editing
- High credit usage
- got ZodError when listing files
- Codex on MacOS keeps crashing after latest update
- Codex App UI freezes: worker crashes, massive git/worktree errors, and concurrent orphaned app-server processes
- Codex App: Allow resizing branches pane
- Codex Cloud: Disable `linear-mention` and `slack-mention` branch feature prefixes
- TUI: request_user_input options render vertically when option label is long (description column collapses to 1)
- Allow Codex Web to actually see the screenshots which it takes
- Cannot reach localhost services from sandbox
- codex can't run commands that are shipped as snap packages in Linux
- Add notification support for plan mode questions
- Writing to an extremely large C++ file triggered Windows' command-line length limit
- Bug: Enter key in embedded terminal triggers chat option selection
- Codex macOS app intermittently exits (self-aborts): exited due to SIGABRT | sent by Codex, no crash report generated
- Codex mac app: “Open in editor” fails on Cursor when workspace path contains spaces
- Clipboard Interference in Codex Shell with Superwhisper Auto-Paste
- Transcript Overlay (Ctrl+T) Over-Allocates User Message Background Height
- High credit usage
- [cli security] Different command is run compared to what is approved
- Plan mode allows mutation if model attempts it
- Model drifting away from the instructions
- Add --append-system-prompt for exec
- [Feature Request] Hotkey to tab between thinking levels of current model.
- Paste image not working in Windows WSL
- Long prompts cause output-format drift in non-interactive CI runs
- [Bug]: Massive CPU usage (100%+) and overheating (100°C) on M4 Mac Air - Version 260208.1016
Resolved issues (32)
- ID 019c3ac3-535f-71d1-9cd5- 228c7b527e6b
- App: When moving right from a selected plan mode question, SELECTED status persists
- Ctrl+C stash drops large paste payloads when recalling history in TUI
- Context compactization forgets current mission
- Sort tasks by last usage rather than creation
- Allow `/prompt` usage within custom reviews
- Compact my prompts
- Reasonable Review Limits
- Codex web: Add favorite environments and filter tasks by environment.
- Hover popup for skills
- Inbound hook to resume Codex session on external events
- Differentiate between when we use subscription credit and when we use additional purchased credits.
- Add support for using WireAPI:Responses with Ollama
- Add explicit permission flag to allow file changes
- partial resume id
- Support using OPENAI_API_KEY without writing to auth.json
- Ability to compose response while viewing diff
- Support webp image input
- File-specific rules
- CLI hangs when loading mcp servers
- Issue: `codex login` hangs on MSYS2
- PageUp/PageDown in Ctrl+T transcript overlay skip messages (pages are not continuous)
- Dead loop
- Allow specifying `model` type to be used in a skill
- High credit usage
- got ZodError when listing files
- Codex on MacOS keeps crashing after latest update
- vscodium + codex: Can't install openai.chatgpt extension because its not omcpatibler VSCodium version 1.76.2 + Debian Stable trixi
- Plan mode allows mutation if model attempts it
- Model drifting away from the instructions
- Paste text to the codex CLI via CTRL+V keyboard combination is broken
- Add --append-system-prompt for exec