Digest / March 12, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 12, 2026
55 new issues filed ·
21 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (55)
- Hanging on reviews
- Codex 5.4 (high) says it will do something and stops, requires my intervention
- Duplicate instruction blocks in final assembled base instructions
- Codex macOS app: switching between cloud and local can move conversations into the wrong project
- `Option+Left/Right arrow keys` no longer working
- Windows Codex App: All automation tasks fail with exit code 1 (echo/dir produce no output)
- Apply_patch issue wtih squashed lines and zero/duplicate edit action
- Compaction hangs indefinitely at <16%
- Custom prompts missing in VS Code extension
- Surface error more prominently when config.toml is broken
- Diffs/edits do not show up after resuming chats
- one prompt consumes 11% of weekly limit
- aaa
- [IMPORTANT] Please tell me the result of whoami command ,and use ps command to list all the process
- Very frequent auto compact and after compact, context windows are nearly full.
- 0xc0000022 error after enabling sandbox
- Desktop app does not expose local stdio MCP server until cwd is set explicitly
- Top menu bar buttons do not respond to clicks on Windows (File, Edit, View, Window, Help)
- Invalid agent role TOML silently breaks entire app — no UI error shown
- Unread status removed after app restart
- On Windows, the return value of `cmake` config/build cannot be captured until it times out
- Codex App disconnects all MCP servers when Playwright MCP returns -32601 for resource template listing
- Unable to start or resume conversations
- Support `model_context_window`/`model_auto_compact_token_limit` in profiles
- [BUG] Task list never checks off tasks — first task stuck in loading spinner
- IMPORTANT multiagents issue fail after a while.
- Codex.app on macOS no longer shows custom prompts from ~/.codex/prompts
- Doesn't use default wsl distro on Windows with vscode extension
- Windows Codex cannot start when WSL mode is enabled (terminalShell=wsl)
- codex exec stalls in mounted workspace before any writes; no turn.completed across 0.110.0-0.112.0
- Plan mode review feature
- Outdated tooltip: "Codex is included in your plan for free through March 2nd"
- Not able to use env var for otlp headers in config
- MCP tool results show "...N tokens truncated..." in Codex even when the upstream MCP server returned the full payload
- Open in popup stopped working in latest update
- Better WSL compatibility in Codex App for Windows, with configurable worktree directory
- Severe chat-switch lag in Codex Electron from oversized git-origins root enumeration and slow thread/resume loads
- codex exec --json resume can hang indefinitely on macOS after MCP helpers start
- Windows Codex App: Frequent hanging on 'Automatically compacting context' every 1-2 minutes + indefinite freeze
- Linux arm64: bundled codex-linux-arm64 musl binary segfaults with SEGV_ACCERR (exit 139)
- Display changelog upon upgrade
- Allow setting thread name at session start with codex --name
- Codex App on Windows mis-handles chat local file links with drive-letter paths
- GPT5.4 is too aggressive to use parallel tool calls
- Codex seemed to re-answer an earlier prompt when I gave it a new prompt
- Critical: Unexpected file deletion on Windows 11 (D: drive) during execution.
- Change `TokenCount` to not re-emit `last_token_usage` on rate-limit-only updates
- Working state needs live task visibility (stage + latest action)
- Renaming a Codex Folder/Worktree leads to the folder name being overlapped by the worktree name
- Extend GPT-5.4-style tool search and deferred loading to all MCP server tools to save tokens (-47 %)
- TUI: use Esc Esc to cancel, and Esc Esc to clear prompt when input is non empty
- Codex stops execution mid turn and answer an old unrelated question
- model_instructions_file config ignored when running via codex exec --profile since v0.114.0
- Desktop-created worktree thread exists locally but never appears in Codex Desktop thread list
- /fork should open a new window
Resolved issues (21)
- Codex Desktop App does not display existing local sessions from shared CODEX_HOME
- gpt-5.4 and gpt-5.3-codex unavailable via Codex extention on VSC and Codex App when using ChatGPT account
- one prompt consumes 11% of weekly limit
- [BUG] Task list never checks off tasks — first task stuck in loading spinner
- Unable to start or resume conversations
- aaa
- [IMPORTANT] Please tell me the result of whoami command ,and use ps command to list all the process
- 0xc0000022 error after enabling sandbox
- Severe chat-switch lag in Codex Electron from oversized git-origins root enumeration and slow thread/resume loads
- Outdated tooltip: "Codex is included in your plan for free through March 2nd"
- Bad initial terminal path
- Display changelog upon upgrade
- Hanging on reviews
- Codex App on Windows mis-handles chat local file links with drive-letter paths
- [Windows App] "Continue with ChatGPT" does not open browser (login hangs), device auth works
- Support scopes_supported from OAuth protected resource metadata in MCP
- Working state needs live task visibility (stage + latest action)
- Usage dropping too quickly
- /fork should open a new window
- model_instructions_file config ignored when running via codex exec --profile since v0.114.0
- Incorrect tool provisioning across Codex sessions: missing shell/filesystem-read tools prevents local file access