Digest / March 19, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 19, 2026
52 new issues filed ·
29 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (52)
- MCP OAuth login does not persist across Codex restarts; remote MCP startup incomplete
- Usage & Rate Limit Widget for macOS
- Expose built-in slash commands like /review to agent tool calls and sub-agents
- codex-core --test all fails on latest-alpha-cli (168 failures on 0.116.0-alpha.3)
- Codex CLI usage showing as other
- Add workspace thread combine support
- Local skills under ~/.codex/skills are not injected into runtime "Available skills"
- Allow control slash commands like /permission and /fork during an active run
- Model selector not available with custom LLM provider
- When modifying the code, Chinese characters will be changed to garbled text
- Title: Unexpected high credit consumption and possible rate limit issue with Codex 5.4
- app-server websocket listener lacks built-in auth; propose optional Basic Auth via env vars
- Other Usage when using Codex v0.115.0
- CLI composer cursor drifts after pasting tabs
- Windows desktop bundles rg.exe in WindowsApps, but executing it returns 'Access is denied'
- Feature request: configurable additional skill directories with precedence/fallback for user skills
- Bug: OPENAI_API_KEY env var silently overrides OAuth token, causing misleading 401 error
- Codex CLI v0.115.0 has serious output corruption issues with sub-agents
- alpha codex-cli 0.116.0-alpha.11 can exit after external request is rejected before any bot-side turn starts
- Queueable manual compaction at turn boundaries
- Symlinks are not resolved for permission checks
- Windows: editing non-UTF-8 Unity C# files can corrupt Korean text after invalid UTF-8 detection
- Codex CLI broad rg search can traverse macOS CloudStorage paths and trigger OneDrive/iCloud/Google Drive hydration
- Subagents Delegation Actively
- Thread-level sandbox in Codex App
- "Open in Popup Window" now replaces the existing popup instead of opening multiple windows
- Codex MCP schema translation converts array[string] tool params into string for memory_store.tags
- Windows elevated sandbox does not recursively grant usable ACLs to existing workspace files
- Weekly usage limit was exhausted after about 15 hours of use
- Interactive Codex rejects skill-style slash commands like /ralph-loop instead of routing them through skill injection
- workspace-level multi-repo support in Codex app
- Playwright MCP no longer offers or remembers "approve for this session"
- spawn_agent should preserve explicit model overrides for explorer agents
- VS Code extension slash skill picker only works once per message, unlike Codex app
- [Windows Desktop] Shell child processes get `PATHEXT` truncated to `.CPL`, causing `git`, `cmd`, and other `.exe` commands to stop resolving
- Codex CLI request hangs on network change (VPN disconnect)
- spawn_agent(model="gpt-5.4-mini") produces child thread metadata with model="gpt-5.4"
- Bug subagents/multiagents ubuntu
- Windows Store Codex App crashes after update: sandbox ACL setup fails on WindowsApps path
- Codex gets lost in the middle of an execution and returns to a context that had already been closed earlier
- Add fork ability before starting session
- Created a plan to create a script. Instead deletes existing script. Horrible!
- Support dynamic bearer token refresh for custom model providers
- invalid_request_error after any prompt in some conversations
- Local Codex logs should respect system timezone
- ...what?
- CLI 0.116.0: Approval prompt shown for almost every command
- Allow user to create rules with improved Starlark support
- thread/resume does not restore model_provider from persisted metadata — breaks cross-provider conversation continuation
- v0.116 repeatedly prompts for escalation on same file despite "don't ask again" (works in v0.114)
- codex process title shows as "node", should probably be "codex"
- Accessibility: NVDA cannot read or navigate text in Codex prompt input; missing VS Code change cues during edits
Resolved issues (29)
- Codex prompts per-file permission when worktree differs from opened folder
- Worktree indicator / dropdown menu in Codex App (next to the branch)
- Approval menu - next to permissions
- codex-core --test all fails on latest-alpha-cli (168 failures on 0.116.0-alpha.3)
- Local skills under ~/.codex/skills are not injected into runtime "Available skills"
- We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- Windows: unified_exec PTY path bypasses Windows sandbox and can run unsandboxed despite workspace-write + network_access = false
- Windows: editing non-UTF-8 Unity C# files can corrupt Korean text after invalid UTF-8 detection
- Queueable manual compaction at turn boundaries
- Multi-agent: spawn_agent fails with 'not found' when re-spawning after worker death
- Sub-agents disappear when compacting context
- Subagents Delegation Actively
- Proposed Refactor: Replace once_cell with std::sync::LazyLock
- Title: Unexpected high credit consumption and possible rate limit issue with Codex 5.4
- Codex CLI v0.115.0 has serious output corruption issues with sub-agents
- Interactive Codex rejects skill-style slash commands like /ralph-loop instead of routing them through skill injection
- Weekly usage limit was exhausted after about 15 hours of use
- Shell Commands not working
- What is the "Other" category in usage breakdown?
- Bug subagents/multiagents ubuntu
- Other Usage when using Codex v0.115.0
- Codex gets lost in the middle of an execution and returns to a context that had already been closed earlier
- Created a plan to create a script. Instead deletes existing script. Horrible!
- Codex CLI usage showing as other
- spawn_agent should preserve explicit model overrides for explorer agents
- Local Codex logs should respect system timezone
- CLI 0.116.0: Approval prompt shown for almost every command
- CLI 0.115.0: Approval prompt shown for almost every command, "don't ask again" ignored
- ...what?