Digest / March 29, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — March 29, 2026
45 new issues filed ·
175 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (45)
- Codex Desktop stays on "Thinking" indefinitely for trivial prompts on macOS
- Resuming same thread crashes Codex
- Detailed Windows stdio MCP teardown report with ready patch branch
- Task-centric session workspace for grouping chats, forwarding context, and keeping long sessions usable
- Task-centric session workspace for grouping chats, forwarding context, and keeping long sessions usable
- VS Code extension: allow manually renaming existing conversations
- Markdown file links to local project files break when the path contains spaces
- Text selection disappears on mouse release in VS Code integrated terminal after upgrading from 0.116.0 to 0.117.0
- Codex hung
- Plugins rollout still leaves a separate apps surface that adds duplicate context/tool cost
- Feature request: optional Touch ID authentication gate for Codex CLI on macOS
- App is almost unresponsive for 5 mins after starting up
- Support `resources/subscribe` for MCP resources as a client (resource notification subscriptions)
- stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- apply_patch fails in Android repo subprojects when .git is a symlink to a directory (`bwrap: .../.git: Is a directory`)
- Can the CLI be integrated into the Codex Desktop?
- Tagging sub-agents in the CLI
- Make stream reconnect delay/backoff configurable in config.toml
- Drawing of the text input area messes with the TUI causing visual artifacts on successive terminal resizes
- "Working" hangs forever
- Exec approval rules are persisted globally by default (should be repo-local by default)
- Codex CLI hangs on Ubuntu during normal prompts
- Codex crashes on startup on Windows when WSL is enabled but no distro is installed
- Each Cyrillic character appears duplicated while typing
- Why am I get asked every time when codex use mcp????
- Add support for explicit-only skill injection
- Codex occasionally shows mistaken input prompts that do not affect the current task
- Built-in Playwright skill fails in Codex desktop sandbox with listen EPERM during browser startup
- Only the first successfully registered MCP server name loads tools; new server names always show 0 tools
- Not scrolling in VS Code integrated terminal
- Codex task progress is not updated incrementally, making it impossible to intervene during execution
- Prompt disappears after error "Not available in app-server TUI yet for thread <thread-id-here>"
- Mac App cannot access iCloud Mobile Documents path via writable_roots, though CLI can
- Codex Windows App spawns popout windows that can't be resized
- Feature Request: Support for higher or configurable sub-agent spawning limits
- CPU Temp Spikes after coding
- Possible repo/task context misrouting across threads with unresolved remote task ownership
- Codex Desktop on Windows creates new threads in the wrong workspace
- Playwright/browser automation in Codex App on Windows hijacks the physical mouse cursor
- VS Code terminal: CapsLock/Shift and key repeat broken in Codex prompt textbox
- Switching one thread to Full Access appears to change all active threads across projects
- TUI: completed modal view can remain mounted after paste-driven completion
- /status command does not refresh weekly limit within the same session
- Change Codex system instruction about unexpected worktree changes for better support of concurrent agent edits
- CLI panics on launch from git worktree directory: /tmp is absolute: NotFound
Resolved issues (175)
- Markdown file links to local project files break when the path contains spaces
- nix build error - rusty_v8 download issue
- Task-centric session workspace for grouping chats, forwarding context, and keeping long sessions usable
- VS Code extension: allow manually renaming existing conversations
- Codex hung
- Plugins rollout still leaves a separate apps surface that adds duplicate context/tool cost
- Resuming same thread crashes Codex
- gpt-5.4 generates response to earlier messages not the last user message
- Codex seemed to re-answer an earlier prompt when I gave it a new prompt
- fix: timeouts
- codex smart model routing
- Ability to execute a plan in a new chat (with refreshed context)
- `Implement this Plan` question needs an _optional notes_ field
- Plan mode: allow discussing proposed answsers to questions
- A way to limit command executon tokens
- /fork should accept a new chat name argument for easy navigation
- Include a `skill_name` on OTel tool events
- Group skills by scope in the Skills page
- Push to talk binding for App
- Support Reviewing Arbitrary Source and Target Branches
- Have @codex engage in all GitHub issue threads
- Direct thread switching with Cmd+1..9 in Codex desktop app
- Allow combining resume and review in a single codex command, or support a session ID flag in the review command.
- Add keyboard navigation (PageUp/PageDown/j/k) to VS Code Codex chat view
- Plan downloads in the VS code extension should save the plan to the repo
- Add toggle/config for CLI spinner (accessibility)
- Support Zed as a file opener in the Codex CLI
- Allow SharePoint connector to download files
- Codex Desktop stays on "Thinking" indefinitely for trivial prompts on macOS
- Allow reviewing past chats for skill creation
- Setting to collapse all threads by default on startup
- codex review should provide a way to add prompt to the review tasks
- Improved handling of config file errors
- Respect PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE (/ add a way to configure env variables)
- Feature request: per-tool priority for MCP servers in config.toml
- Use dash-separated header session-id instead of session_id
- Expose skill origin and allow deterministic selection when skill names collide
- Add “Clear all attachments” (bulk remove) in the composer
- Configurable Max Questions in Plan Mode
- add option to disable console tip
- Question: More details and context to facilitate decisions
- [PDF Skill] macOS: dependency install guidance should default to venv, not system `python -m pip`
- Make 'snapshot_shell' store non-exported environment
- Add “General Chat” mode + convert chat to project
- Keyboard-bindable command for inserting editor selection with @-mention
- Add keyboard navigation to jump to prev/next user message in a chat in Codex App
- [FEATURE] Add a command to display ONLY user prompts
- Add “Time Remaining” bar to /status output to show pacing vs quota
- Tab completion after `!` shell prefix in Codex CLI
- tui: make empty collab wait status messaging explicit
- feature: Instruct codex to read file before writing to a user modified file
- VS Code: Account-Linked Cross-Device Session Sync
- Support a static callback URI for MCP authentication
- Support branch switching
- "Open In" IDE choice should be at a project level
- Allow codex to manage thread names
- Organize threads in folders
- Extend sandbox policy to support MPS
- CLI Reinstate v0.98 single reply colorized diff view and permission request
- Feature request: optional Touch ID authentication gate for Codex CLI on macOS
- Text selection disappears on mouse release in VS Code integrated terminal after upgrading from 0.116.0 to 0.117.0
- Codex crashes on startup on Windows when WSL is enabled but no distro is installed
- stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- Can the CLI be integrated into the Codex Desktop?
- Why am I get asked every time when codex use mcp????
- Built-in Playwright skill fails in Codex desktop sandbox with listen EPERM during browser startup
- ripgrep operation not permitted
- Continuous permission errors since 0.59->0.60, 5.1-Codex-Max upgrade
- Xcode MCP
- Chrome-Devtools-MCP Error on Linux
- Stream disconnected before completion (invalid type: null, expected struct Error)
- Codex App triggers Xcode 26.3 agent access prompt multiple times
- Your access token could not be refreshed because your refresh token was already used
- App UI gets stuck after some work (background work continues)
- "Error creating cloud task" when no associated environment available
- CLI: Often cannot press up to recall session prompt history
- Codex Cloud - Post Setup Caching isn't working
- Shell commands include workdir in command string
- TTY echo breaks after interactive sudo prompt; requires killing Codex CLI
- Codex CLI 0.66.0 and Azure GPT-5 - 429 Too Many Requests
- Hebrew in command support (ascii jumps)
- PATH env var not preserved when launching codex
- Spawns multiple MCP servers with wrong cwd and doesn’t clean them up
- Codex cannot access files in remote directory (connected use SSHFS) in VSCode
- CLI command parsing deletes directories when chaining without a shell
- Codex strips quotes from file paths, breaking commands with spaces
- Paths with spaces are not clickable in Codex TUI diff summary
- codex resume command in Codex CLI does nothing after latest update
- Pyenv shim already exists. Commands constantly timeout in WSL2 environment
- model_reasoning_effort not forwarded to third-party providers
- Timeout compatibility issues when calling tools.
- Codex is unable to run .exe files using WSL session
- Pull request diff shows large deletions for large file (structure.sql)
- Codex plugin 0.4.44–0.4.46 regression: commands hang/timeout (even /bin/ls) while prior versions work
- Codex (VSCode extension) fails to auth/use over corporate VPN while ChatGPT web works fine (recent regression)
- windows - git bash - newlines touched needlessly on otherwise non-changed code
- Codex CLI cannot use shell
- Wrong .gitignore and message
- focus automatically returns to the Codex extension
- Codex CLI frozen immediately upon install when attempting sign-in
- Changes/Diffs are not accurate
- codex --sandbox workspace-write --ask-for-approval never cannot write files
- All `shell_command` invocations time out with exit code 124 when sandboxing is enabled
- Multiple instances of ‘Git for Windows’
- We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- Unable to use JADX-AI-MCP and APKTool-MCP-Server
- Codex doesn't persist previous approval level
- code 400
- When Windows uses codex to execute scripts, pop-up boxes always pop up that conda.exe cannot be opened
- still enforces no_new_privs when run via systemd
- MCPs are defined in config.toml. Codex CLI sees them but VS Code IDE extension does not see them
- [Windows] VS Code extension enabled in a Remote-SSH session to Ubuntu is having issues using MCP servers
- codex resume fails for specific sessions with "stream disconnected before completion", while new sessions work normally
- Login menu doesn't work with terminal that has few rows
- Seemingly degraded/slowed Codex performance in large(r) projects
- going really slow in analysis. 10x slower.
- VSCode Extension in Windows always Failed:Missing environment variable: `APIROUTER_API_KEY`. but i can use it in WSL,powershell,cmd,and i can normal use in VS code Extension 0.4.46-
- Does not display full text, cannot copy
- Invalid usage reset date
- Reconnecting
- Context compaction stalls and the session hangs after large tool outputs (codex-cli 0.74.0)
- Review against base branch includes working-tree changes and repeats non-diff hallucinated findings
- Context compaction loop leaves ~5% context and stalls session (eventually 0% / interrupted)
- Codex CLI emits unescaped paths; zsh globbing breaks on `()`/`[]`
- Hang waiting on permissions response - but codex never asked for permissions in first place
- Codex CLI v0.63.0 always interrupts conversation and hangs on basic prompts (Pop!_OS)
- GPT 5.2 keeps staging its changes
- [Remote MCP] Error when trying to log in - Error: Metadata error:
- Emoji Display Issue
- Doesn't think it can edit files or run commands in read-only mode.
- Mcp-server has no network access even with network access flags enabled
- Taking a long time / doesn't answer
- Taking too long for a single reasoning step ( > 30minutes )
- UI glitch removing text output on scroll
- Zig test commands failing in sandbox
- Garbled output / not setting dumb terminal mode with shell snapshot on
- No Sign in with ChatGPT
- Model did nothing except wait for a terminal, but the entire context window was eaten up by something.
- Codex CLI fails under Termux + proot Ubuntu on Android: `prctl(PR_SET_DUMPABLE, 0) failed` (0.42 works, 0.43+ broken)
- Hang on a question
- Shell-style commands return empty output in Codex CLI runner
- Chat text input padding doesnt focus text field
- Working or thinking endless, stuck forever
- Codex stops react on typing. After few attempts to quit by ctrl+c shows error "failed 5: I/O error"
- How to run chrome mcp under WSL ?
- Character encoding issues
- Blue inline links in extension lead to poor user experience in many cases
- Bug: Environment setup starts on default branch and resets with 'environment changed' warning
- Text omitted when pasting
- Rate limit ISSUES
- Windows: Codex CLI fails with spawn EPERM even after clean reinstall (Node 24, NVM, Windows 10/11)
- Non-Interactive mode does not Exit/Close
- Codex keeps reporting an error that isn't actually an error despite Framework MCP and Agents instruction.
- USage limit drop on pro account 20% in 5 minutes
- Bug : selection on text not being affected on Cursor IDE terminal but can copy and paste
- Input lag during high disk usage
- Lingering Codex message limit banner persists after quota reset in vscode / cursor
- Impossible to turn off "Run in WSL" once activated
- fake news usage limit warning
- Add the thinking tokens back to the Codex transcript
- 0.117.0 regression: default tui_app_server hides MCP startup failures/warnings on startup
- TUI /agent accumulates ghost subagent threads; stale entries open blank while API returns 'agent not found'
- Proposal: Add Python SDK for Codex
- Sub-agent costs are too high and too opaque
- Add support for explicit-only skill injection
- Update $skill-creator guidance to cover named-arg migration from custom prompts BEFORE custom prompts deprecation
- Bug: tool-call envelope leaked into assistant text + occasional lottery/ads injection
- Codex always breaks Windows EOL (replaces with newline EOL)
- gpt-5.4 in Codex CLI appears to inject unrelated context/patterns into responses during coding tasks
- Codex complicates a very simple directive
- Codex 5.4 (high) says it will do something and stops, requires my intervention
- Codex does same work twice and ignores prompt
- Feature Request: Support for higher or configurable sub-agent spawning limits
- Codex Windows App spawns popout windows that can't be resized
- Can't seem to use ruby from rbenv