Digest / February 26, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — February 26, 2026
79 new issues filed ·
24 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (79)
- Auto set light/dark theme variants based on OS preference
- Control over which ANSI colors are mapped
- Bug report: Uploaded thread 019c9756-ef38-7f72-8704-e9780a14b212
- WSL tab close during running turn leaves resumed session stuck in Working (missing task_complete)
- Main thread kills subagents too eagerly
- Not able to setup permissions.network setting
- Usage limits warning message appears despite limits not being close to exhaused
- Codex Desktop threads stuck in “Thinking” and cannot be stopped unless background process is force-killed
- Text to speech does not work on WSL (Terminal/VSCode terminal)
- When I deployed the qwen model using VLLM, I encountered an error that the model was not found
- MCP OAuth discovery fails behind Cloudflare: rmcp HTTP client sends no User-Agent header
- get "Oops, an error has occurred" when create(or open) threads in certain project
- App (Codex.Renderer process) crashes with CPU overload
- CLI: add --worktree and --tmux flags for one-command isolated sessions
- Allow use of worktrees created outside codex app
- Codex sandbox blocks DNS/SSH sockets; git push fails with "Could not resolve hostname github.com"
- CLI degrades after stale streamable-http MCP session; subsequent tool calls fail
- Codex IDE extension fails on long-lived thread with Error running remote compact task: 413 Payload Too Large
- [Praise] The new experimental voice transcription is amazing!
- 019c98da-8d41-7da3-b5ed-36d05aac0a49
- Significant delay before first comment in VSCode (WSL) extension.
- [FEATURE] Config setting for plans save directory
- Codex can't find executables on Windows
- User initiated tool calls
- Status line disappears while typing in prompt input area
- Prompt textarea does not support Shift+Arrow text selection
- [Feature] Allow configuring / adding additional developer instructions for the new voice transcription feature
- can not get response
- Agent edits resulting in "command failed; retry without sandbox?"
- I need worktree
- `ansi` theme is rendered as explicit RGB colors instead of terminal ANSI palette indices
- Voice transcription stops functioning after a little while
- Dictated text does not appear
- File search does not work
- Enable voice transcription in Linux/WSL builds
- `This thread's worktree was removed to save disk space` for threads actively worked on.
- Codex CLI in read-only mode can write
- "Read" tool should contain line
- Using /personality reports no support for namespaced model IDs like `openai/gpt-5.3-codex`
- Codex fails to start on Windows with CPU capability error (requested: 0x20000000)
- Voice transcription/realtime can rapidly consume usage limits (possible transcript echo loop)
- VS Code extension opens file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net links in external browser
- Color diff in Warp terminal is unreadable in the new version (Windows)
- codex-rs/shell-escalation/README.md bash repo out of date (no longer public)
- New Codex Killed by Kaspersky EDR
- CODEX IDE COMMAND ERROR
- Codex CLI themes are genuinely unusable
- `codex exec` emits no OTel metrics; `codex mcp-server` emits no OTel telemetry at all
- Running command elapsed time resets when changing between views
- Keyboard shortcut to switch models and thinking
- invalid_request_error Failed to parse request body as json with error: Expected end of string, but instead reached end of data. LineNumber: 0 | BytePositionInLine:
- Scheduled automations cannot access GitHub API in default sandbox despite allowlisted gh api and loaded token
- chatgpt.com/cyber doesn't allow me to start verification
- Remove `awaiter`
- error in codex cli with any prompt after updating codex cli to 0.105.0
- Codex got stuck waiting for permission but never prompted for approval
- Plan mode: Add explaination command
- Add `developer_instructions_file` for stronger local guidance
- Bad request after change /theme
- Persist sort preference in resume picker
- Sub-agent timer is lost after switching agents via /agent
- Windows global npm install misses optional @openai/codex-win32-x64; codex fails to start
- Allow opting out of forced GIT_PAGER=cat and NO_COLOR=1 in Codex tool commands
- Adding editors to the "Open in" dropdown menu
- Cannot sign in with BYO api key
- Prompt text box becomes extremely laggy when chat displays any rich UI elements
- Accidental prompts using the Tab key
- codex app installs ARM-only Codex.app on Intel Mac; launch fails with NSOSStatusErrorDomain -10661
- /review base-branch picker includes current branch (e.g. main -> main)
- tui: add codex resume --history-lines to cap replayed scrollback
- tui: add --no-keyboard-enhancement for terminal compatibility
- the session happened on rebase don't have a branch name
- different worktree can't share the same session
- Codex stale-thinking thread spinner may persist after stream-state mismatch
- Codex stale-thinking spinner persists after stream state desync (thread stale detection + targeted recovery results)
- Keep agents busy, treat them as a pool rather than run them in batches
- As a user, I would like the ability to edit or drop previously queued messages without stopping the current turn.
- Codex app-server crashes on Windows 11 build 26200 (HW capability error)
- Search past conversations in codex app
Resolved issues (24)
- Text to speech does not work on W11 via Terminal (PS7)/CMD
- WSL tab close during running turn leaves resumed session stuck in Working (missing task_complete)
- Not able to setup permissions.network setting
- App (Codex.Renderer process) crashes with CPU overload
- When I deployed the qwen model using VLLM, I encountered an error that the model was not found
- Text to speech does not work on WSL (Terminal/VSCode terminal)
- Voice transcription fails with 403 (Cloudflare HTML challenge) and silently drops transcript
- TODO is not getting updated correctly
- Reconnecting loop
- [BUG] IDE Context `.env` & Terminal Control Stop
- Stuck in reconnecting loop. Finally times out 5/5 with message: "stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Vision OCR fails in sandboxed Python with CoreVideo CVPixelBuffer error (-6662), works unsandboxed
- Codex IDE extension fails on long-lived thread with Error running remote compact task: 413 Payload Too Large
- Codex can't find executables on Windows
- User initiated tool calls
- Status line disappears while typing in prompt input area
- Main thread kills subagents too eagerly
- Codex sandbox blocks DNS/SSH sockets; git push fails with "Could not resolve hostname github.com"
- spawn_agent forces approval_policy=never; breaks collab thread navigation and blocks sandbox escalation
- I need worktree
- VS Code extension opens file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net links in external browser
- Sub-agent timer is lost after switching agents via /agent
- Windows global npm install misses optional @openai/codex-win32-x64; codex fails to start
- Adding editors to the "Open in" dropdown menu