Digest / April 6, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 6, 2026
45 new issues filed ·
33 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (45)
- [i18n/ja] Incorrect Japanese translation for "Push" button
- [Bug] app-server spawn fails with ENOENT on Windows (missing shell: true)
- Codex app limits and model selection popups are not displayed on zoom
- Codex tui logs keeps growing and not getting rotated
- Slack connector shows connected but Codex returns invalid_auth_token
- Codex usage limit consumed ~10x faster (1 message ≈ 6% of 5h window) — likely bug
- Subagent quota exhaustion is surfaced as “no response” instead of an explicit failure status to the main agent
- Codex integrated terminal crashes PowerShell 7 on startup context
- Empty explorer.toml subagent definition file triggers bug and causes explorer agent to ignore model parameter
- [BUG] Switching accounts and making a prompt makes it warn about the previous' account usage limit, stops and wastes usage
- Stdio MCP child processes are not cleaned up and accumulate indefinitely
- Add HEIC image support on Mac
- Session logs data loss
- Keep files in memory in case of disk full truncation
- CLI session loses stdio MCP connections after initial successful calls; fresh codex exec still works
- Feature Request: Ability to check agent status and parent-child wait mechanism
- Desktop thread panel hides existing workspace threads after workspace restructuring; backend pagination still returns them
- When using sub-agents, the diff shown after the changes do not reflect all sub-agents
- Windows desktop app: Plus account shows only "Skills" while free account shows "Plugins"
- TUI return can leave stale busy spinner and active-turn inhibitor after subagent completion on Linux/tmux
- TUI /agents return can leave stale busy spinner and active-turn inhibitor after subagent completion on Linux/tmux
- usage limit bug
- Invalid prompt: your prompt was flagged as potentially violating our usage po licy.
- `codex exec --sandbox workspace-write` panics in `system-configuration` / `reqwest` / `opentelemetry-otlp` before prompt execution
- CLI reports usage limit reached for Business team seat while usage dashboard says no Codex rate limits
- Linux sandbox: support safe sandbox-local AF_UNIX sockets (e.g., sccache)
- Constant ask for MCP Tool approvals
- Cursor extension: message-level fork controls disappeared (possible regression)
- TUI exits to shell on subagent/thread switch when startup skills/list fails; parent rollout stays empty
- Codex Windows app web-fetch returns stale GitHub content for youichi-uda/godot-mcp-pro
- Azure Foundry tool sessions still fail on 0.118.0 without local payload patching
- Business workspace account reports no usage, but receiving "You've hit your usage limit"
- Windows app fails to start for usernames with non-ASCII characters (Swedish Ä) due to malformed CODEX_HOME path
- Use Progressive disclosure for MCP, apps and plugins
- limit reached in 1 hour, try again in 11 days!
- Allow custom status line plugins in Codex CLI
- When using a skill automatically, codex should mention the name of the skill
- Metal devices are invisible inside sandbox on Apple Silicon, which causes false MLX failures
- Codex CLI renders hook additionalContext as visible developer message
- A way to view full output of background terminals
- Codex Desktop on macOS: worktree creation can time out after Git succeeds, leaving orphaned worktrees with no thread/session state
- Automation marked Active but does not run or create a thread
- MCP tool calls slow and intercepted/wiretapped?
- High CPU usage on macos codex extension
- mcp-server does not set residency header, causing 401 for non-US users
Resolved issues (33)
- Windows: spawn codex ENOENT in app-server.mjs — missing shell/platform handling
- [Bug] app-server spawn fails with ENOENT on Windows (missing shell: true)
- Notify send in wrong time
- Agent Teams
- Multiple parallel codex exec instances interfere via shared session restore
- Frequent re-authentication required
- Long prompts cause output-format drift in non-interactive CI runs
- codex exec resume silently starts a new thread when given an ephemeral session id
- codex exec --help advertises a second positional [COMMAND] but parser rejects it
- `codex exec --help` references `-a on-request` but `codex exec --ask-for-approval` is rejected
- codex exec resume accepts nonexistent session ids and starts a new thread instead of failing
- Codex usage limit consumed ~10x faster (1 message ≈ 6% of 5h window) — likely bug
- The built-in terminal in VSCode cannot scroll
- MCP tool schema mismatch: structured args are surfaced as strings for Hindsight retain
- Codex App: app-owned @playwright/mcp can leave Google Chrome Helper running until app restart
- Feature Request: Support a side-by-side terminal layout (terminal docked on the right)
- workspace-level multi-repo support in Codex app
- TUI /agents return can leave stale busy spinner and active-turn inhibitor after subagent completion on Linux/tmux
- codex-cli 0.114.0 on Windows exits back to PowerShell during normal interactive use
- Pressing Enter while creating git branches also accepts the pending "Implement plan" action in chat
- usage limit bug
- TUI word movement (Option/Alt+Arrow) treats entire CJK sequences as a single word
- Fast mode toggle doesn’t take effect after switching off
- codex exec --ephemeral backfills turn items via thread/read(includeTurns=true)
- Display actual skill names instead of "Read SKILL.md"
- TUI renders percent-encoded bare paths instead of decoded Unicode in local file links
- Cursor extension: message-level fork controls disappeared (possible regression)
- Codex App fails to detect sub-repositories in a workspace folder and orphans conversation context
- Codex Desktop shows STDIO for streamable_http MCP servers when authStatus is unsupported
- When using a skill automatically, codex should mention the name of the skill
- mcp-server does not set residency header, causing 401 for non-US users
- Spinner on first run of codex does not let copy link
- /mcp: "Loading MCP inventory" takes too long