Digest / March 20, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 20, 2026
69 new issues filed ·
90 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (69)
- Custom subagents in .codex/agents are not accessible from tool-backed Codex sessions as docs imply
- v0.116.0 ubuntu22.04 errors mentioning bwrap sandbox wrapper constantly occur
- UserPromptSubmit and SessionStart hooks fire simultaneously on first prompt
- Desktop thread loses MCP tool availability after auth, forcing new threads and breaking continuity
- Existing desktop threads do not pick up newly enabled MCP connections
- SessionStart not firing on session start instead it fires on first user prompt submission
- Windows app becomes unresponsive when attaching and using a ~3.6 MB JPEG image
- Support --session-id flag for `codex exec` to specify session ID upfront
- Do not poll for usage when using API key authentication
- Codex App GitHub connection for code review fails with `OAuth state invalid or not found`
- `apply_patch` fails on Windows after first write in sandbox-owned directory in VS Code Extension
- Feature proposal: configurable TUI prompt glyph and background
- Sometimes, codex finishes executing in just a few tens of seconds and then returns the previous response.
- Feature: Expose full usage/limits data in CLI (/status command)
- Suppress the warning `⚠ Codex could not find system bubblewrap at /usr/bin/bwrap` when sandbox is bypassed.
- Sandboxed tool calls fail on Ubuntu 20.04 with bubblewrap 0.4.0 ('bwrap: Unknown option --argv0')
- Codex is awful, reconnecting, lost in context, etc
- Docs mismatches: sandbox link, Homebrew install command, and Windows support wording
- Docs mismatches: sandbox link, Homebrew install command, and Windows support wording
- VS Code extension bundled Codex 0.116 fails on Rocky 8 with bwrap: Unknown option --argv0
- Desktop shell tool still prompts for sandbox approval even when default.rules allows the command
- `request_user_input` in non plan mode is not working
- On native Windows, external CLI commands are always wrapped by PowerShell, making permission rules hard to match reliably
- Sandboxed dotnet/MSBuild invocation fails during project-reference evaluation with no surfaced error
- macOS startup panic when SystemConfiguration DNS state is unavailable
- macOS startup panic when SystemConfiguration DNS state is unavailable
- default.rules is not honored for sandbox-escaping commands even when execpolicy returns allow
- Support inbound MCP notifications routed into an active Codex CLI session
- Cannot select permissions in the MacOS App UI permissions drop down selector, STUCK IN READ-ONLY
- Feature Request: Manual compaction in the Codex desktop app
- Ran pwd └ bwrap: Unknown option --argv0
- [feat] permissions level in the statusline.
- Local skills showing up as Installed skills is misleadin
- Review-mode subagent ignores runtime sandbox override and falls back to config defaults
- Subagent UI does not show up updates for agent's work in Codex App
- Pro limits now feel dramatically worse and are getting exhausted in ~2 days
- Prod - Switching branches not possible
- Approved escalated commands still inherit restricted network policy in interactive CLI sessions
- Desktop automations silently fall back to workspace-write sandbox regardless of app configuration
- Add blocking PermissionRequest hook for external approval UIs
- Windows Codex App handoff does not merge committed worktree changes back into master
- Codex VS Code extension gets stuck on “Thinking”
- Update $skill-creator guidance to cover named-arg migration from custom prompts BEFORE custom prompts deprecation
- Codex suddenly outputs an identical response from a previous turn after completing several instructions
- Codex App on Windows does not expose the manual compaction command available in the CLI
- App-server TUI does not fully reflect external live turns on shared thread
- Codex extension repeatedly ask for permission
- Codex crashed with error 4294967295
- Codex stops working when on VPN on windows when using WSL
- high CPU consuming when codex diff render
- Tools hangs when evaluating image files.
- Codex is very slow to respond
- Codex 0.116.0 sandbox commands fail on Ubuntu 22.04 with bubblewrap 0.6.1
- Codex usage dashboard appears to over-consume weekly quota and may misclassify activity as "Other"
- Codex is looking for bwrap in wrong place
- Automatic approval review failed: guardian review completed without an assessment payload
- No way to do a clean uninstall of Codex CLI on Windows that reverts system sandbox changes
- Support symlinks for custom agent TOMLS
- Codex Desktop macOS: Settings UI non-interactive (gear icon + controls unclickable)
- Support moving/remapping a workspace folder without losing thread history
- Loss of large amount of recent conversation turns / history / context after app restart
- app-server: add last_assistant_message to Thread in thread/list response
- Large and scrollable terminal history
- Supabase MCP cannot authenticate
- app-server injects client's requested personality even if disabled or overridden in config.toml
- Interactive CLI/TUI: opt-in local ingress for trusted local controllers (avoid PTY input emulation)
- bwrap: Unknown option --argv0
- GPT-5.4 swapped English words for Arabic
- Claude Code Channels (MCP) now talks bidirectionally to Codex App Server in the same live session (first bridge)
Resolved issues (90)
- Codex can't access MCP
- Desktop thread loses MCP tool availability after auth, forcing new threads and breaking continuity
- Support --session-id flag for `codex exec` to specify session ID upfront
- SessionStart not firing on session start instead it fires on first user prompt submission
- v0.116.0 ubuntu22.04 errors mentioning bwrap sandbox wrapper constantly occur
- Ability to configure bash command timeout limit
- Agents invoke CodeX, they need to output logs.
- Support Running Multiple Background Jobs in Parallel
- Include tool calls and reasoning when "No, and tell Codex what to do differently"
- Show full file paths when manually adding context to avoid ambiguity between files with the same name
- : MCP tool enable to resume conversations from persistence
- Make the TUI behave more like a modern terminal
- Expose thinking level param for Codex CLI
- Add a 'project atlas' so codex cli knows the entire project layout at each startup
- Refresh conversation history when switching/resuming conversation in same VSCode session
- Mark Unread for Codex Desktop threads
- Codex app: allow customizing path to git
- Codex Access Permission Issue
- non-interactive support for fork
- Powershell parser to properly classify commands like bash / zsh
- Request to have text formatted
- Need review options for the files edited by codex
- Codex MCP tool responses omit conversation metadata, blocking codex-reply
- Inline diffs (show only the range changed)
- Display unmodified lines in codex diff
- [FEATURE] Add /release-notes built-in command for viewing Codex CLI changelog
- Show full shell commands rather than summaries
- Support direct file read/write APIs instead of shell commands
- Feature request: Support Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) OAuth2 Client Credentials for model providers (tenant_id/client_id/client_secret)
- Add MCP codex-reply Support for Resuming Conversations from Rollout Files
- Codex API activity logging in platform.openai.com/logs
- Integrate GitHub Issues
- Codex app needs a full auto mode
- Feature request: add `--diff-verbosity` to `codex exec` (default: `step`)
- The list of tools available for a specific App/Connector should be available
- Feature Request: Live Activity Feed for Codex Agent While Coding
- Codex app - handling of untracked files
- Click on file integration
- Add Hand Off option
- Natively Customizable Plan Template
- opt out pre-main process hardening
- Use already logged in ChatGPT account to sign in to Codex CLI
- Keybinding to focus text box
- /resume screen conversations should be middle-truncated
- Codex App: Type branch name to use
- Codex App: Allow resizing branches pane
- Codex Cloud: Disable `linear-mention` and `slack-mention` branch feature prefixes
- Disable inline ghost suggestions in Codex CLI input
- How to clear the current user input
- Add button in Plan Mode to skip questions
- Allow voice input for Plan Mode questions
- [FR] Codex App should optionally wrap code blocks
- RFC: Deterministic Session Checkpoint v1 (DSC) — Compaction Without Summarization
- Add time/use‑bounded approvals to reduce risk without prompt fatigue
- Change shortcuts for "view all" code changes (ctrl + a) and "Yes, don't ask again for these files" (a)
- Regression: forced remote compaction removes local fallback and compaction visibility
- Change to Fish Shell Rather Than Zsh
- Make tool call timeout configurable
- [Feature Request] Hotkey to tab between thinking levels of current model.
- App: duplicate conversation
- Warn when CODEX_HOME is full; avoid silent loss of session history
- Show background process progress (similar to /agents)
- Tool to run any bash command in background
- Allow us to edit the permission prompt
- Expose compaction summary/prompt to users (keep thread/compacted or add fields to contextCompaction)
- [TUI] Render markdown for plan responses
- Automation doesn't allow select interval bellow 1 hour
- Pin chat
- Inline diff should follow the line wrapping configuration of the diff view and allow to show surrounding content
- Include GIT SHA in output of `codex-cli --version`
- Support steering during /review
- Checkboxes beside the threads, or maybe a way to put a background highlight on the thread.
- Docs mismatches: sandbox link, Homebrew install command, and Windows support wording
- Desktop shell tool still prompts for sandbox approval even when default.rules allows the command
- macOS startup panic when SystemConfiguration DNS state is unavailable
- Feature Request: Manual compaction in the Codex desktop app
- Prod - Switching branches not possible
- Codex is awful, reconnecting, lost in context, etc
- Ran pwd └ bwrap: Unknown option --argv0
- Pro limits now feel dramatically worse and are getting exhausted in ~2 days
- Codex App on Windows does not expose the manual compaction command available in the CLI
- v0.116 repeatedly prompts for escalation on same file despite "don't ask again" (works in v0.114)
- Codex extension repeatedly ask for permission
- Codex stops working when on VPN on windows when using WSL
- Codex 0.116.0 sandbox commands fail on Ubuntu 22.04 with bubblewrap 0.6.1
- Feature Request: Add rendered LaTeX math support to the Codex App (inline + block)
- [codex-app-server Python SDK] UnicodeDecodeError with `Popen(text=True)` on non-ASCII Windows locales
- Large and scrollable terminal history
- Supabase MCP cannot authenticate
- Ability to set different model + reasoning for collab modes