Digest / April 2, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 2, 2026
81 new issues filed ·
68 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (81)
- VSCode Integrated Terminal is not accepting uppercase letters with Caps Lock on and accented character
- `codex resume` repeatedly fails with "Timeout waiting for child process to exit"
- Clarify personal plugin directories
- Add `mcp_servers.<id>.default_tools_approval_mode`
- Codex Desktop closes immediately after launch on Windows
- Feature request: allow configuring path exclusions for @ file mentions in the IDE
- Response took a long time
- Shell session dies when child Python process runs `os.kill(pid, 0)`
- Improve Codex CLI input UX: multiline editor-style composer and voice-to-prompt workflow
- CLI: picker renders before initial session load completes
- CLI: codex resume picker renders "No sessions yet" before initial session load completes
- Ghostty: raw `...u` escape-sequence fragments inserted into shell after abnormal SSH disconnect during Codex session
- test from codex
- Fix unstable local file link navigation in the VS Code Codex chat window
- No logout button in Cursor's codex plugin
- Codex desktop on Windows reports malformed cwd for worktree threads and can target the wrong checkout
- Outputting a bunch of gibberish
- Subagent MCP definition is ignored
- Refactor workflow drifted into cross-language rewrite that corrupted Python
- Sync agent-created worktrees with the active Codex thread/UI context
- Codex CLI works but Codex Extension is not responsive on Nvidia Spark DGX VS Code
- The Codex application creates a read-only .codex file
- 【BUG】Slash commands completely not working in Codex Desktop App (no UI + no parsing)
- Codex 0.118 stops unattended runs with opaque “Missing required artifacts and external info” approval prompts and no “Always allow” option
- Weekly Limit Drops Quickly Compared to 5-Hour Limit
- Codex on Windows reopens in English and loses Automations sidebar after closing window, while Settings still shows Chinese
- 中文乱码
- Bug: AI consistently outputs garbled text (乱码) for Chinese content during code generation and editing
- 0.118.0 gets stuck on startup when `plugins/featured` returns a Cloudflare challenge page
- Sub Agents in Fast Mode
- thread/list filesystem fallback can hide older matching threads after hitting 10,000-file scan cap
- Reasoning Effort picker missing 'xhigh' for gpt-5.4 and other supported models
- Windows codex app does not display sidebar in light mode
- spawn_agent ignores requested gpt-5.4-mini model and launches subagent as gpt-5.4
- Codex threads disappear after a few days on macOS
- codex_apps MCP startup fails on wham/apps even when proxied endpoint is reachable
- Codex does not inherit zsh aliases from .zshrc during command execution, while other shell init state is inherited
- codex_output_schema uses root type: "array" which violates Structured Outputs API requirement
- Codex becomes unresponsive on startup if the `~/.ssh/config` is large
- codex-app-server-sdk: StdioTransport crashes on prompts >64 KiB due to Python asyncio StreamReader limit
- Open in Finder does nothing on macOS
- Codex rescue task gets stuck in infinite tool-call loop during code review
- failed to resume renamed session
- KV cache bitflip?
- Forked session id on /status command
- codex resume --all still shows initial prompt instead of stored session name on 0.118.0
- Bug: occasional raw JSON subagent notifications render in Codex chat on GPT-5.4 high
- Windows: Antigravity shows generic icon in "Open in" menu instead of app icon
- Windows app: Antigravity shows a generic icon in the "Open in" menu
- Windows Codex App still fails to load native `computer-use-mcp` tool (`invalid type: map, expected variant identifier`)
- Swedish characters (åäö) duplicate when typed in CLI input
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- Windows: allow configuring the default session shell via config
- Codex is not able to access its own background processes after compactation
- Multi-agent: cascading crash when MCP server referenced in skill docs doesn't exist
- TUI word movement (Option/Alt+Arrow) treats entire CJK sequences as a single word
- bus error on codex cli sqlite thread
- 5h limit dropped to zero unexpectedly
- usage limit hits despite status tells me otherwise?
- Consolidate config under .codex/ and document .codex/skills/ discovery
- HTML files being 0 bytes and being deleted
- Make agent aware of dirs added with --add-dir
- Lost part of thread history and all subagent thread history after Codex App restart.
- VS Code Codex extension
- Stream Disconnected
- Expected a base64-encoded data URL with an image MIME type
- Resumed threads keep stale model-visible skills after new skills are added
- In appropriate text spilling all over my session
- Token Usage for CLI 0.118.0 reported as "Other"
- Button layering/alignment issue
- Are you dense? Put 5.4 Thinking and Pro on Codex connected to our subscription your marketing is deceiving.
- Clarify expected codex app-server thread visibility in Desktop history and why custom-client threads are recorded as vscode
- Open Codex Chat in a New Window in VS Code
- Windows desktop app can hang on send and may relaunch after close; plugin/connectors discovery gets Cloudflare 403 HTML
- CLI shell/tool execution fails across sessions with exit code -1 and empty output
- Add 'profile' as a status line item
- TUI renders percent-encoded bare paths instead of decoded Unicode in local file links
- Codex 5-hr time runs out extremely quickly
- VS Code Codex "All tasks" list is dropping valid sessions and showing a non-recency order
- Cleanup step used over-broad workspace move and dismantled repository boundaries
- Refactoring corrupted repository code and left syntax errors
Resolved issues (68)
- Reconnecting
- login with group ,but limit is also exist
- Unable to locate Codex CLI binaries. Ensure @openai/codex is installed with optional dependencies.
- Refresh project instructions when AGENTS.md scope changes across turns
- Internal hook calls are being exposed to the foreground
- Bug Shell command
- Codex CLI inserts leading spaces into rendered command blocks, breaking copy/paste of long shell commands
- TUI: interactive history search
- Random reponses for my quesiont
- ■ Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Remote compact task fails
- Add `codex mcp enable|disable <server>` CLI subcommands
- Shift+Enter does not work in VSCode terminal
- Stupid AI negating to obey my clear commands for my own project/files!
- New feature requesting the ability to make a Pull request
- Source code leaked
- VSCode Integrated Terminal is not accepting uppercase letters with Caps Lock on and accented character
- Approving request_permissions in the TUI app-server path returns You did not grant additional permissions
- TUI: completed modal view can remain mounted after paste-driven completion
- Improve Codex CLI input UX: multiline editor-style composer and voice-to-prompt workflow
- CLI: codex resume picker renders "No sessions yet" before initial session load completes
- `/apps` slash command disappeared after `v0.117.0` CLI
- test from codex
- Reasoning Effort picker missing 'xhigh' for gpt-5.4 and other supported models
- Codex rescue task gets stuck in infinite tool-call loop during code review
- failed to resume renamed session
- Sidebar only shows the 50 most recent threads, making older threads inaccessible
- Windows: Antigravity shows generic icon in "Open in" menu instead of app icon
- Outputting a bunch of gibberish
- Codex creates `.codex` file in repo
- The Codex application creates a read-only .codex file
- Refactor workflow drifted into cross-language rewrite that corrupted Python
- Weekly Limit Drops Quickly Compared to 5-Hour Limit
- 中文乱码
- 0.118.0 gets stuck on startup when `plugins/featured` returns a Cloudflare challenge page
- Windows codex app does not display sidebar in light mode
- No logout button in Cursor's codex plugin
- KV cache bitflip?
- Swedish characters (åäö) duplicate when typed in CLI input
- Frustrated with arbitrary weekly limit resets
- Empty `.codex` file created at repo root
- 5h limit dropped to zero unexpectedly
- Consolidate config under .codex/ and document .codex/skills/ discovery
- HTML files being 0 bytes and being deleted
- VS Code Codex extension
- TUI voice transcription
- Codex threads disappear after a few days on macOS
- Codex Upgrade to Pro is Completely Broken on VS Code
- CLI: picker renders before initial session load completes
- codex resume --all still shows initial prompt instead of stored session name on 0.118.0
- In appropriate text spilling all over my session
- Are you dense? Put 5.4 Thinking and Pro on Codex connected to our subscription your marketing is deceiving.
- Windows desktop app can hang on send and may relaunch after close; plugin/connectors discovery gets Cloudflare 403 HTML
- Interactive `/review` follow-up can crash codex-cli 0.118.0 with active turn ID mismatch
- Forked session id on /status command
- Add 'profile' as a status line item
- Diffs/edits do not show up after resuming chats
- Codex 5-hr time runs out extremely quickly
- VS Code Codex "All tasks" list is dropping valid sessions and showing a non-recency order
- Cleanup step used over-broad workspace move and dismantled repository boundaries
- Refactoring corrupted repository code and left syntax errors
- Mac app stops showing local threads even though local thread data still exists
- Allow switching/adding working directories within a Codex CLI session
- Codex App worktree setup does not seem to load rc files (fine during tool calls)
- Expose app-server over network transport for remote/mobile session attach
- Can't close search on windows App
- [Feature Request] Add first-class Japanese language support (UI, docs, prompts)
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