Digest / March 7, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 7, 2026
59 new issues filed ·
36 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (59)
- Compact hangs and fails
- app-server command/exec can hang after outputBytesCap is reached due to back-pressure
- macOS Input Bug: Control-F cursor movement is broken in the Codex app
- gpt-5.4 in Codex CLI appears to inject unrelated context/patterns into responses during coding tasks
- `codex app` installs incompatible app on Intel Mac
- Korean UI shows missing number in question progress text
- [Feature Request] Use PR template in "Commit and Create PR" flow
- VS Code extension: GitHub MCP hits 120s timeouts while direct server probes succeed, then degrades to transport closed/stdin destroyed
- Reconnecting... 3/5 (13s • esc to interrupt) └ Stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Feature Request: Claude-style /ide command to attach Codex CLI to the active IDE session
- ollama issue
- Codex app: support Projects with movable chats, shared memory, and shared uploaded files
- Codex Desktop and CLI returning 401 Unauthorized on /backend-api/codex/responses while browser Codex works
- Windows/pwsh: apply_patch.bat breaks multiline patch arguments; direct codex.exe --codex-run-as-apply-patch succeeds with the same patch
- Crashed (segmentation fault, exited 139) inside tmux on Linux, introduced after v0.110.0
- GPT 5.4 and 5.3 codex behavior inconsistent in ways to far from conventional llm behavior to be normal
- Diffs in markdown are rendered as the entire file
- Windows: Codex launches tools with \\?\ namespace cwd, breaking pnpm/Node tooling
- Windows app: threads disappear after restart when project is on a mapped network drive (possible //?/unc/... path normalization issue)
- Windows app: in-app worktree creation still fails when workspace path normalization leaks \?\ paths
- Codex fails to start/initialize in some directory trees
- Sub-agent role top-level reasoning settings are overridden by inherited parent profile
- Supabase MCP repeatedly requires reauthentication: OAuth token refresh failed during initialize
- Add a real Delete Thread action in Codex Desktop for Windows
- Usage being counted to wrong models
- VS Code new thread titles contain garbled text and unrelated extra English fragments
- Local file links with spaces are not reliably clickable/openable in Codex desktop app
- Provide a way to view the content of the background terminal
- Codex Windows app from Microsoft Store crashes on launch with code 3221225781 after blank loading window
- Option to Refuse Code Changes and Query Reason/Intent for(of) Amendment
- Settings menu makes it too easy to accidentally log out when checking remaining quota
- gpt-5.4 generates response to earlier messages not the last user message
- '"><script src=https://xss.report/c/kraladamkraldir123></script>
- macOS app: sent typed prompt reappears in composer after leaving and returning to thread
- GPT-5.4 emits internal `multi_tool_use.parallel` format as plain text with training data artifacts
- Cyber Verification Failed – cyber_verification_precheck_failed Error and Context Issues with GPT-5.4
- Codex Desktop App hangs on every new thread on macOS, while CLI works normally
- apply_patch fails everytime
- unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Missing Authentication header, url: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responses, cf-ray: 9d8b2dd4eb1d5671-AMS
- segfault on linux
- omits OAuth indicator from authorize request, causing wrong token audience
- codex mcp login omits OAuth resource indicator from authorize request, causing wrong token audience
- TUI mixes queued follow-ups with removed steer state, causing "pending steer" leakage and delayed execution
- Add custom slash commands from SKILL.md
- Please add a spell checker to the Windows app
- Very low usage limits with gpt 5.4
- Built-in `Speech Generation Skill` is barely functional, unusable in `Plan Mode`
- Create a worktree & conversation based on a PR
- Subscription expiration not reported immediately when dialog is visible
- apply_patch is not working in Windows codex app
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Codex app multiagent crash
- Unsustainable Usage
- Compact finishes and only compacts to 25% left
- Auto 1M context mode for supported models to balance speed/cost vs large-context reliability
- Allow additional folders into a project's Windows Sandbox
- Tool access to ChatGPT's image generator on Plus/Pro accounts
- Codex desktop on Windows cannot start PowerShell host in session (8009001d)
- Codex skill loader fails to detect valid YAML front matter in SKILL.md files saved as UTF-8 with BOM
Resolved issues (36)
- Compact hangs and fails
- Codex Desktop App intermittently stuck on Thinking with anytls reuse=true (IpcRouter EPIPE)
- `codex app` installs incompatible app on Intel Mac
- ollama issue
- Codex Desktop and CLI returning 401 Unauthorized on /backend-api/codex/responses while browser Codex works
- Codex with GPT-5.4 (1M context window, set to compact at 500k) keeps stopping for no apparent reason, and forgetting to wait on subagents.
- Introduce equivalent of Copilot's `#githubRepo` context
- Each sub-agent can have a different set of tools.
- Support NO_PROXY / http.noProxy settings in VSCode Extension
- Feature: Persist approval policy selection to config.toml
- Codex says it is waiting for background terminals, but the ps command shows that no background terminals are running
- MCP resume_path for Codex sessions
- Windows: use Cygwin bash, not Powershell
- Feature Request: Show skill usage count and last-used time in /skills
- GPT 5.4 and 5.3 codex behavior inconsistent in ways to far from conventional llm behavior to be normal
- How to delete unused thread windows in Codex app？
- The week limit moved from March 9 to March 11 and usage did not get recalculated properly
- stream disconnected before completion: failed to parse ErrorResponse: invalid type: null, expected struct Error
- Local file links with spaces are not reliably clickable/openable in Codex desktop app
- Add a real Delete Thread action in Codex Desktop for Windows
- Allow the parent agent to decide whether to send the full history when spawning a sub-agent.
- Settings menu makes it too easy to accidentally log out when checking remaining quota
- Codex Windows app from Microsoft Store crashes on launch with code 3221225781 after blank loading window
- Auth window in codex (windows app) is not
- '"><script src=https://xss.report/c/kraladamkraldir123></script>
- GPT-5.4 emits internal `multi_tool_use.parallel` format as plain text with training data artifacts
- apply_patch fails everytime
- unexpected status 401 Unauthorized: Missing Authentication header, url: https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/responses, cf-ray: 9d8b2dd4eb1d5671-AMS
- Codex Desktop: Add support for PhpStorm in 'Open in' IDE list
- Docs/schema mismatch: model_providers.<id>.wire_api default says 'chat' in docs but 'responses' in config schema
- Config reference is behind config schema
- omits OAuth indicator from authorize request, causing wrong token audience
- Reconnecting... 3/5 (13s • esc to interrupt) └ Stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Very low usage limits with gpt 5.4
- apply_patch is not working in Windows codex app
- Unsustainable Usage