Digest / February 21, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 21, 2026
36 new issues filed ·
24 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (36)
- Add “General Chat” mode + convert chat to project
- Allow importing environment variables via file upload or paste - Codex Web
- Bottom row of controls can get squished, not responsive
- Sign in with Device Code fails to display code and loops back to the selection menu on headless servers.
- Keyboard-bindable command for inserting editor selection with @-mention
- codex-cli 0.104.0 on Windows 10 exhibits unbounded memory commit growth when idle (reaches ~90GB, causes system OOM)
- compact issue
- Files not in worktree will show in `@` suggest list
- Allow the parent agent to decide whether to send the full history when spawning a sub-agent.
- view_image requires user to explicitly paste path to image to be viewed
- AST Transformations for Deterministic Refactoring
- TODO is not getting updated correctly
- Severe Performance Degradation in GPT-5.3-Codex - Model Effectively Crippled
- Add keyboard navigation to jump to prev/next user message in a chat in Codex App
- [Bug] UI Rendering Failure: Queued tasks overlap and become unclickable (Desktop App)
- [Feature] Support for Tree-based Conversation Management (Chat Tree / Branch)
- [FEATURE] Add a command to display ONLY user prompts
- TUI: Alt-d should delete next word in chat prompt
- TUI: Alt-d should delete next word in chat prompt
- [BUG] IDE Context `.env` & Terminal Control Stop
- File changes Undo button does NOT work
- Mouse wheel scrolling doesn't work in legacy Windows console (conhost.exe) due to alternate screen buffer
- Reconnecting loop
- Clarify Read Access Boundaries in Security Documentation (Related to #5237, #5474, #8396)
- Feature: Hierarchical Agent Delegation & Per-Agent Tool Access Control in TOML Configuration
- Content filter blocking benign content
- Feature: Inter-Agent Communication Channels for Direct Agent-to-Agent Messaging
- /cwd command to switch working directory without restarting session
- Better tools & workflows to keep ~/.codex/config.toml in sync with new releases (without manual doc scraping)
- Feature: allow choosing stable releases vs prereleases for update checks
- Spark ran out of context
- Switching to sub-agent and back re-asks permission for commands previously ran that aren't being run again
- Response has special character rendering has a box with a question mark
- Add support for Positron editor in "Open in" menu
- Bad Request
- Click Stop on running terminals in Codex app does not close them out
Resolved issues (24)
- Allow multiple CLI terminals per project + add a “General Chat” mode (convert chat → project)
- Allow multiple CLI terminals per project
- Creating a skill + automation does not trigger immediate execution
- Edit Queued Message with `Option + Up` (⌥↑ edit) Not Working on MacOS terminal or iTerm.
- Add option to hide icon in editor tab area on VSCode
- Nix package broken since 0.89.0 version
- Spark usage unreported
- Termux + SSH + Zellij: inline mode scrollback appears truncated / jumps to pre-Codex history
- MCP tool discovery InOp
- Undo does not work
- [Question] What did you guys do to make worktree creation much faster on codex desktop app
- Manually added skills don't auto-suggest when typing '$' until the app is restarted.
- compact issue
- TUI: Alt-d should delete next word in chat prompt
- TUI: Alt-d should delete next word in chat prompt
- File changes Undo button does NOT work
- Add `--max-turns` CLI option
- Resume after reconnecting can show stale working state without model invocation
- Response has special character rendering has a box with a question mark
- Add support for Positron editor in "Open in" menu
- Content filter blocking benign content
- Feature: allow choosing stable releases vs prereleases for update checks
- Context remaining/token estimate overcounts MCP image data URLs (base64)
- Long URLs/links break when wrapping