Digest / March 21, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 21, 2026
45 new issues filed ·
21 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (45)
- Support custom provider in app
- macOS desktop Browser MCP consistently returns `Transport closed` while Codex CLI succeeds on the same machine
- VS Code extension should show exact in-editor change locations like Copilot, and Undo/Revert must be reliable
- Increase cap of sessions in VS Code extension
- Usage consumed very quickly
- Bug Report: `apply_patch` is inconsistently intercepted by Codex Desktop UI and `default_shell` configuration fails on Windows
- macOS: allow arbitrary apps or custom commands for "Default open destination"
- Windows local file links open external browser with broken file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net URL instead of opening the file in VS Code
- Orphaned child processes persist after Codex parent exits
- Inconsistent scrollback / output rendering behavior on Windows Terminal vs macOS terminal
- Sometimes it using আমি like Chinese 我， It is I (me).
- Usage breakdown shows Codex CLI usage as "Others" with abnormally high token consumption
- Regression in codex-cli 0.116.0: agent cannot work normally in Debian 12, downgrading to 0.115.0 restores functionality
- Bug: Stale Account Identity in Session Telemetry after Account Switch within the same thread
- Speed up the Working pulse animation when Fast mode is enabled
- UI is laggy and losses state wrt selected thread
- dbus-update-activation-environment Operation not permitted
- Switching chat threads is taking 10 seconds
- Codex Desktop injects both Path and PATH into command environment on Windows, breaking MSBuild/Roslyn
- Codex v26.318.11754 pegs CPU to 70%+ immediately on launch (macOS ARM64)
- Performance: high CPU utilization with IDE extension
- ```Never update memories. You can only read them.```Is this type of instruction part of your future roadmap, or is this simply an error?
- VS Code extension spams unsupported requests / thread-stream-state-changed broadcasts, causing high CPU/GPU usage on macOS
- Built-in diff viewer does not keep horizontal scrollbar visible when vertical scrolling is needed
- Open files directly in Codex app
- Configurable per-item colors and threshold-based styling for statusline
- Ambiguous cwd prompt serialization breaks file creation when a directory name is a single space
- system prompt issue
- Codex desktop app: "Stage all" fails, but single-file stage and terminal git add work
- Possible quota/accounting issue: Pro weekly limit depletes unusually fast
- Threads randomly disappear from history without deletion (possible sync/cache issue)
- CLI: duplicate numbered-list Markdown rule in system instructions (token waste)
- [FEATURE] CODEX_HOME should support shared auth with isolated config/skills
- macOS desktop startup crash when a rollout JSONL contains a huge single line
- Codex Linux sandbox fails with "bwrap: Unknown option --argv0" despite updated bubblewrap
- Codex on Windows can leave large numbers of orphaned dotnet.exe processes after .NET CLI work
- Diff rendering (still) looks bad on Apple Terminal.app on Monterey
- Codex chat font size is too small in the VS Code extension
- /review` worked on Ubuntu 22.04 with Codex `0.114.0`, but fails on `0.116.0`
- Codex keeps hanging at "thinking".. no output and no work is being completed
- Codex does not prioritize ~/.codex/AGENTS.override.md or AGENTS.md
- Windows PowerShell UTF-8 Markdown files can render as mojibake in agent context, causing patch mismatch and unreliable edits
- On Windows, some tool-generated PowerShell commands can be blocked by Defender as Trojan:Win32/ClickFix.SA!A
- Feature request: hierarchical archived context with rehydration and user-controlled compression
- Artifacts tool fails because pinned artifact-runtime-v2.5.6 manifest is missing from public GitHub releases
Resolved issues (21)
- 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)
- Usage consumed very quickly
- bwrap: Unknown option --argv0
- Usage breakdown shows Codex CLI usage as "Others" with abnormally high token consumption
- Bug: Stale Account Identity in Session Telemetry after Account Switch within the same thread
- UI is laggy and losses state wrt selected thread
- Windows local file links open external browser with broken file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net URL instead of opening the file in VS Code
- Codex usage dashboard appears to over-consume weekly quota and may misclassify activity as "Other"
- Sometimes it using আমি like Chinese 我， It is I (me).
- Switching chat threads is taking 10 seconds
- ```Never update memories. You can only read them.```Is this type of instruction part of your future roadmap, or is this simply an error?
- Possible quota/accounting issue: Pro weekly limit depletes unusually fast
- CLI: duplicate numbered-list Markdown rule in system instructions (token waste)
- [FEATURE] CODEX_HOME should support shared auth with isolated config/skills
- Codex Linux sandbox fails with "bwrap: Unknown option --argv0" despite updated bubblewrap
- Codex chat font size is too small in the VS Code extension
- system prompt issue
- Windows PowerShell UTF-8 Markdown files can render as mojibake in agent context, causing patch mismatch and unreliable edits
- Codex does not prioritize ~/.codex/AGENTS.override.md or AGENTS.md
- On Windows, some tool-generated PowerShell commands can be blocked by Defender as Trojan:Win32/ClickFix.SA!A