Digest / February 14, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 14, 2026
22 new issues filed ·
48 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (22)
- Agreeable, but refuses to build.
- Leaking Tool and Thought Stream
- v0.100.0 removed a critical user capability: hard 90% clamp nullifies user-defined compaction threshold
- On WSL, Codex is running extremely slow.
- Run `notify` hook for approval-request events (not only turn completion)
- Codex CLI fails on native Termux (Android) - authentication, request, and lock failures
- Codex Android app and Codex daemon
- Wrong wording: mcp [experimental] Run Codex as an MCP server and manage MCP servers
- CLI: show agent/thread attribution on action status rows (read/search/update/exec)
- Codex mcp-server can hang indefinitely when command approval requires elicitation but MCP client cannot answer
- CLI: /<skill> unrecognized while $<skill> invocation works
- Spark usage unreported
- Send Codex notifications to chatgpt phone app
- MCP tool discovery InOp
- CLI is unuseable with a screen reader while text is streaming due to repeated/partial announcements of incoming text
- Failed to resume task when logged in – cannot start new agents
- Support Reviewing Arbitrary Source and Target Branches
- Direct thread switching with Cmd+1..9 in Codex desktop app
- Responses API: reasoning items with content: null rejected by non-OpenAI providers like Openrouter
- Always display the current working directory
- GPT-5.2 (codex) API Regression Report: False Refusal on RFC 5321 Systems Implementation
- codex
Resolved issues (48)
- Focus is stolen from terminal when codex requires a reply
- Agent loop fails to start after task recognition (agent roop stops and waits for input)
- Regression Shift Tab no longer cycles plan mode
- `git branch -d` blocked by policy despite sandbox_mode=danger-full-access (CLI 0.97.0/0.98.0)
- Can’t use GPT-5.3 even though it was mentioned in the release notes.
- Opening a thread puts you at top of conversation instead at bottom
- : Intermittent “Awaiting approval” deadlock for safe read-only PowerShell commands
- Agreeable, but refuses to build.
- Resume session view omits reasoning/code edits; request optional raw transcript display
- Leaking Tool and Thought Stream
- Allow refreshing / loading new skills without restarting the cli
- [cli security] Different command is run compared to what is approved
- v0.100.0 removed a critical user capability: hard 90% clamp nullifies user-defined compaction threshold
- Run `notify` hook for approval-request events (not only turn completion)
- gpt-5.3-codex does not expose apply_patch tool while gpt-5.2-codex does
- Codex cli screenshot display
- 5.3-codex(xhigh/high/medium) has become slow + does not update progress as often
- [Improvement] Enhance test error messages in CLI tests
- Codex VS Code extension stopped working overnight with ChatGPT login (Plus user)
- Use codex.toml (or configurable filename) instead of generic config.toml
- Codex CLI doesn’t load skills from .agents/skills when it is a symlink
- Can't submit feedback
- Do users of other companies' development tools need to verify their identity when using 5.3-codex?
- Codex loses chat history when switching between tmux and non-tmux session
- Support extension in browser version of vscode
- macOS: Codex.app repeatedly asks “would like to access data from other apps” and quits even after Allow
- CLI: /<skill> unrecognized while $<skill> invocation works
- Wrong wording: mcp [experimental] Run Codex as an MCP server and manage MCP servers
- Codex cannot handshake with WebStorm MCP server (SSE endpoint), initialize fails
- Open in: Zed is very buggy and unreliable.
- Failed to resume task when logged in – cannot start new agents
- cannot open any new task for specific project, giving "Error loading task"
- Codex bypasses workspace restrictions, edits in other folders with 0 permission requests
- Performance degradation in Codex App with large Git changes, even when Diff Editor is not open
- Responses API: reasoning items with content: null rejected by non-OpenAI providers like Openrouter
- 5.3 codex instead of 5.2 gpt
- False 'missing YAML frontmatter delimited by ---' for valid SKILL.md
- tui.notifications stops working randomly; iTerm2 notifications no longer triggered
- Approval menu receives focus while typing
- Entire 5-Hour + 22% Weekly Limits + All Credits Burned Without Running
- VS Code's horrible confirmation work-flow
- Codex app is offered by codex CLI, but it's offered regardless of minimum system checks
- Gg
- TUI banner shows v0.98.0 after upgrading to 0.101.0
- Allow overriding the base URL for OpenAI in config.toml
- GPT-5.2 (codex) API Regression Report: False Refusal on RFC 5321 Systems Implementation
- Does not register use all the time command
- codex