Digest / March 17, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 17, 2026
66 new issues filed ·
22 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (66)
- Invalid git submodules handling
- Subagents stay stuck as "awaiting instruction" and do not reliably follow the default GPT-5.4 model
- Make subagent feature optional
- AI agent runtime should support non-blocking handling of long-running / blocking IO tasks
- Bubblewrap regression on Linux/WSL: missing writable_roots fail command startup and detached children are reaped
- Archiving spawned sub-agent thread collapses all threads.
- Stream disconnected before completion
- Proposal: reduce token usage for common verbose exec_command outputs
- rate_limits is always null in rollout session files
- Proposal: add PreToolUse/PostToolUse lifecycle hooks to Codex hooks engine
- Chat file links are not clickable, and Open in PyCharm fails
- [TUI] config to set `persist_extended_history` flag
- [TUI] improve bash mode UI
- [App] connect to a remote App Server
- ChatGPT Models 5.3 and 5.4 not supported on Business ChatGPT account
- Limit Codex diff view to the current project subdirectory
- Codex (desktop/CLI) can’t use provided images or generate new ones
- Codex Missing Dwayne from in the subagents name list
- codex cli no ouput asking prompts again and agin
- Subagents UI is very nice in codex app, can IDE extension users get that too please?
- ShellSnapshot refresh can delete the active snapshot file via Drop on the previous generation
- close_agent returns the pre-close status, which is easy to misread as the final close state
- Modifier keys behave incorrectly in VS Code + WSL terminal when chatting with Codex
- After last update Git integrationis broken
- Compaction error
- Codex in Codex App giving 401 unauthorized
- Support multi-user deployments
- VS Code Codex extension hangs on Local mode and repeatedly fails with "local-environments is not supported in the extension"
- bwrap: Failed RTM_NEWADDR: Operation not permitted
- Support bun v1.3 in Codex Web
- Pop-Out Chat Panel for VS Code Extension
- Desktop app: explicit cross-thread orchestration over existing thread/* and turn/* primitives
- Windows app Settings no longer shows the WSL section, so I can't switch the agent runtime to WSL
- spamming ".tests"
- `/mcp` stops showing tools for MCP servers with hyphens in their names in `0.115.0`
- Stream live output from background terminal processes
- Enabling `/ide` before resending a message doesn't work
- MCP stdio handshake times out with Honeybadger MCP server despite valid initialize response
- Codex is remove the last empty line, and can not bring it back
- bwrap: Approval prompt shown for almost every command
- Codex App: Archived threads should keep latest renamed title
- Add keyboard shortcut for yolo mode
- [BUG] Skill creator skill is confusing for the agent (skill placement)
- Issue when downloading Codex Desktop in MS Store
- Codex VS Code extension renders file references as blue links, but clicking does not open files in the editor
- codex cli stalls in reasoning after compaction
- Aborted Windows shell task leaves orphaned child processes and may resume into process storm on restart
- Stale MCP "node" helper process trees from older sessions
- codex CLI crashes in xterm
- [BUG] Worker launches fail when gpt-5.4-mini is unavailable for account
- Orphaned process pairs burn CPU when terminal is closed (SIGHUP not handled)
- Subagent reasoning level is displayed incorrectly
- Select model for plan implementation
- Regression: Codex overwrites PR titles with “Codex-generated pull request #XXX
- agent "working" for very long time
- Bubblewrap sandbox fails inside container for commands on bind-mounted host paths
- Inconsistent localhost access across approved command prefixes can silently invalidate debugging
- codex /model slash command mutates config.toml
- Cancel send pending message
- Add a hard config kill-switch and warning path for spawn_agent fork_context
- Sub-agents disappear when compacting context
- Add rendered LaTeX math support to the Codex App (inline)
- rmcp MCP OAuth sessions do not recover on 401 invalid_token; stale session fails while new session succeeds
- codex.exe processes fail to terminate upon closing the application
- Commit attribution: optionally supply the model name instead of the generic Codex name
- Codex TUI input/prompt contrast is too low over SSH on Linux EC2 devbox
Resolved issues (22)
- Make subagent feature optional
- Codex App: Add subagent monitoring to the UI
- [App] connect to a remote App Server
- ChatGPT Models 5.3 and 5.4 not supported on Business ChatGPT account
- Can't start chat nor select model
- Codex in Codex App giving 401 unauthorized
- Pop-Out Chat Panel for VS Code Extension
- Expose thread/read and thread/list as MCP tools for tool-only clients
- spamming ".tests"
- close_agent returns the pre-close status, which is easy to misread as the final close state
- bug: Agent-job finalization uses a brittle 250ms grace period that misclassifies successful workers
- ShellSnapshot refresh can delete the active snapshot file via Drop on the previous generation
- Subagents stay stuck as "awaiting instruction" and do not reliably follow the default GPT-5.4 model
- Provide the ability to allow workspace-write to access ./.codex
- Codex VS Code extension renders file references as blue links, but clicking does not open files in the editor
- codex cli stalls in reasoning after compaction
- Failed to apply patch: bwrap: Can't mkdir .codex/memories: No such file or directory
- codex /model slash command mutates config.toml
- rmcp MCP OAuth sessions do not recover on 401 invalid_token; stale session fails while new session succeeds
- Long-running (idle?) codex sessions have bwrap failures
- Windows App: stale processes
- codex.exe processes fail to terminate upon closing the application