Digest / April 4, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 4, 2026
52 new issues filed ·
27 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (52)
- Codex App Switches folders when selecting projects
- Hooks log output is very noisy
- Add a preview for queued prompts in the IDE extension
- Codex Desktop: misleading “project/workspace” defaults + silent failure when no local workspace or Cloud repo access
- /resume selecting the currently active session causes TUI to exit immediately
- Full Access still shows permission prompts - defeats the purpose of the setting. Or add a yolo mode or something.
- `codex mcp add -c` argument does nothing.
- Zoom breaks controls
- Sandboxed pytest stalls when run via make or redirected output, but direct foreground pytest works
- Codex Desktop triggers sustained syspolicyd/trustd CPU spikes on macOS
- Flag to force ipv4 on windows
- With usage and telling me I don't have it
- Is Codex self-approving itself to get around the read-only mode?
- Worktrees broken on repo with LFS
- Codex CLI on Native Windows with PowerShell: Vitest spawn EPERM and frequent fail to apply patch on large edits
- Override allowed_domains for specific rules
- Codex Windows Desktop installer
- Find [CTRL+F] widget overlaps with application window controls
- Add /init command to app
- Codex App refuses to see GitHub CLI - shows "Install GitHub CLI (gh) to create PRs
- Working footer can show stale active work state
- Windows: codex-command-runner.exe fails before process start with error 1385 for simple workspace reads in workspace-write
- codex exec --ephemeral backfills turn items via thread/read(includeTurns=true)
- Automations fail with DNS resolution
- Codex desktop app hides Plugins UI while plugin runtime and CLI marketplace are available
- Feature request: bring back Undo / Redo for Codex-applied file changes
- Arbitrary usage resets resulting in an overall loss of tokens.
- Windows app repeatedly spawns \git ls-files --others --exclude-standard -z`; `ntfs.sys` `NtFC` nonpaged pool grows continuously`
- run commands in a actual terminal where user can stop them
- Excessive sequential command approval notifications flood UI for dependent steps
- Some messages output gibberish
- 0.118.0 regression: sandboxed commands fail with `bwrap: Can't create file at <repo>/.codex: Permission denied`
- apply_patch fails with No such file or directory on existing files in codex-cli 0.118.0
- Bug: CLI crashes with SIGTERM on large repos
- Bug: error handler leaks stack trace on malformed config
- Windows app cannot perform git operations when sandbox settings are set to "Workspace write"
- Feature: add health check endpoint for CI integrations
- Bug: codex exec ignores .codexrc configuration file
- Total Governance Failure Disaster
- Cross-project, cross-session state leak
- Codex Desktop: “Stage all” fails in every repository
- bug(cli): reasoning summaries may be omitted and some responses stream events can crash the CLI
- Make notification prompts in the message stream a different colour from all the other grey content.
- Codex desktop plugin marketplace unreachable — Cloudflare challenge blocks plugins/featured API, preventing new plugin installs
- Planned task support in iOS App
- Worktree conversation remains listed in Settings but disappears from sidebar thread list
- Context compaction regression in CLI v0.118 — 2x more frequent compactions cause token usage explosion
- Codex app on Windows: WSL agent mode fails with: Error creating task Invalid request: AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- Repository-Native Documentation Hygiene Feedback
- Codex Mac Desktop App: existing threads don't load after app restart
- Rename Chats
- [Bug] Deleted my dictation
Resolved issues (27)
- Hooks log output is very noisy
- /resume selecting the currently active session causes TUI to exit immediately
- `codex mcp add -c` argument does nothing.
- Sandboxed pytest stalls when run via make or redirected output, but direct foreground pytest works
- With usage and telling me I don't have it
- Worktrees broken on repo with LFS
- Find [CTRL+F] widget overlaps with application window controls
- Codex App refuses to see GitHub CLI - shows "Install GitHub CLI (gh) to create PRs
- Arbitrary usage resets resulting in an overall loss of tokens.
- Codex Windows Desktop installer
- Bug: CLI crashes with SIGTERM on large repos
- Working footer can show stale active work state
- Windows: codex-command-runner.exe fails before process start with error 1385 for simple workspace reads in workspace-write
- Codex sidebar fails to open in TRAE: missing command workbench.view.extension.codexSecondaryViewContainer
- Bug: error handler leaks stack trace on malformed config
- Automations fail
- Feature request: bring back Undo / Redo for Codex-applied file changes
- run commands in a actual terminal where user can stop them
- Excessive sequential command approval notifications flood UI for dependent steps
- Some messages output gibberish
- Windows app cannot perform git operations when sandbox settings are set to "Workspace write"
- Feature: add health check endpoint for CI integrations
- Bug: codex exec ignores .codexrc configuration file
- Total Governance Failure Disaster
- my account has 'free tier' limits, when i'm on 'plus' plan.
- 0.118.0 regression: sandboxed commands fail with `bwrap: Can't create file at <repo>/.codex: Permission denied`
- Rename Chats