Digest / February 10, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 10, 2026
56 new issues filed ·
22 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (56)
- [Improvement] Enhance test error messages in CLI tests
- [Question] Clarify TurnStartedEvent.model_context_window optionality
- [Observation] Unused import with allow annotation in landlock.rs
- `pbcopy` isn’t available
- Codex UI treats empty list_mcp_resources as “no MCP access” (servers actually available)
- Enable clarifying questions in normal mode (not only Plan Mode)
- Ctrl+C can become non-functional during /review and MCP startup (startup/shutdown deadlock)
- Tool to run any bash command in background
- Codex 5.3 Disconnecting and Running Extremely Slowly
- Keeps crashing
- Plan Mode dialog reappears after switching to another agent and back with /agent
- CODEX is not asking permissions before edits
- Codex Desktop: orphaned app-server from stale Sparkle path + AppKit menu inconsistency leads to crash on project resume
- Add ability to export full conversation or compacted to folder in project
- WinGet install exposes target-suffixed executable name instead of codex.exe
- Cannot initialize Streamable HTTP MCP servers
- Codex VS Code extension stopped working overnight with ChatGPT login (Plus user)
- Codex VS Code extension stopped working after being prompted to download the mac codex app
- MCP OAuth login fails for Kapa-hosted Strapi docs server unless authorize URL includes resource parameter
- Supabase works in the CLI, but fails in the app
- Keeps asking for permission to run commands
- macOS app consumes 99% of CPU even when idle on a M4 Max - App completely broken
- Use codex.toml (or configurable filename) instead of generic config.toml
- Cannot start conversation: relay: json error
- Codex macOS desktop app hangs on launch (Dock icon bounces indefinitely, no window created)
- Model claims that it can not read files
- MCP client for `playwright` failed to start
- Voice input doesn't keep track of cursor and always pastes at last
- GPT-5.3-Codex's false refusals
- Codex CLI doesn’t load skills from .agents/skills when it is a symlink
- Context compaction causes task drift: assistant reverts to stale prior request and executes unrelated command
- sandbox_permissions: Landlock read restrictions not enforced (has_full_disk_read_access TODO)
- Enter key pressed in Terminal context submits approval for execution of command in thread
- Can't submit feedback
- When in plan mode, Codex asks redundant questions
- MCP servers eat up memory when multi-tasking in Codex App
- Manual /compact command in Codex app
- Automations not respecting schedule
- Codex Desktop UI cannot initialize or detect existing Git repository (git init failed) while CLI works
- Are Pro 5.3 users all secretly just using 5.2? Certainly looks like it! ~/.codex/models_cache.json, gpt-5.3-codex is marked supported_in_api: false
- [TUI] Render markdown for plan responses
- Update broke Codex IDE extension in codeserver environment
- Skills loader ignores symlinked SKILL.md files (breaks stow/dotfiles setups)
- PR creation appends full instruction template to PR description
- Support extension in browser version of vscode
- 019c48d6-97da-75f2-818b-9840de2cc724
- Second file in diff is not updating/refreshing
- Business subscribers: Allows workspace administrators to allocate codex limits among themselves
- Comprehensive compare between how ChatGPT approached a task, and how a 30+ years C++ veteran approached the same task.
- Subagents are off, yet `/review` uses them
- Scroll position is lost sometimes
- Native "Commit" button ignores custom Git instructions and generates empty commit body (unlike Chat command)
- Two
- App is constantly freezing
- Improve handling of quoting and escaping for PowerShell commands
- GPT 5.3 Codex constantly lies about its available tools
Resolved issues (22)
- [Question] Clarify TurnStartedEvent.model_context_window optionality
- [Observation] Unused import with allow annotation in landlock.rs
- Enable clarifying questions in normal mode (not only Plan Mode)
- Codex Desktop appears to ignore `sandbox_workspace_write.writable_roots`
- Keeps crashing
- CODEX is not asking permissions before edits
- /resume does not list sessions started via Zed Codex agent integration
- Skip api.openai.com/v1/models refresh when using custom responses-api-endpoint
- Update broke Codex IDE extension in codeserver environment
- Codex Desktop App Becomes Unusable Due to `codex-tui.log` Being Used as State / Index
- GPT-5.3-Codex's false refusals
- Skills loader ignores symlinked SKILL.md files (breaks stow/dotfiles setups)
- Are Pro 5.3 users all secretly just using 5.2? Certainly looks like it! ~/.codex/models_cache.json, gpt-5.3-codex is marked supported_in_api: false
- 019c48d6-97da-75f2-818b-9840de2cc724
- Model claims that it can not read files
- Comprehensive compare between how ChatGPT approached a task, and how a 30+ years C++ veteran approached the same task.
- Selecting `gpt-5.3-codex` in Codex shows response.model = `gpt-5.2-2025-12-11`
- Scroll position is lost sometimes
- Two
- App is constantly freezing
- GPT 5.3 Codex constantly lies about its available tools
- GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2