Digest / April 8, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 8, 2026
56 new issues filed ·
37 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (56)
- Codex fails at interactive TUI & gets stuck in a broken state
- not a bug
- windows sandbox: setup refresh failed exit code: 1
- Marketplace local plugin path "./" cannot reference the repository root
- Questions Get Skipped When Pasting via Right Click
- Status 503 issue persistent
- Slow connections and 503 errors
- Tooltip menu hidden when zoomed in with Cmd + in Codex desktop app
- Can you stop randomly resetting limits please ?
- Received output that looked like an advertisement
- Linux bwrap fails when protected symlinked carveout points outside writable roots (No such file or directory)
- Leaked debug tracing log in the TUI Codex CLI
- Chat input placeholder should not be selectable / copyable
- (code=3221226505, signal=null). Most recent error: memory allocation of 524288 bytes failed note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
- Feature Request: Skip Auto-Triggered Skills
- **Bug/UX: No way to switch accounts without clearing browser session**
- Codex VS Code extension cannot execute any local shell command on Windows (PowerShell 8009001d / CreateProcessWithLogonW 1056)
- Messages to be submitted after next tool call (press esc to interrupt and send immediately) not working on CLI
- codex-responses-api-proxy fails with "API key is too large to fit in the 1024-byte buffer" when using Azure AD access tokens
- IDS Dashboard
- TUI-usable session-control primitive in Codex CLI
- bug: mouse pointer flickers (I-beam ↔ arrow) on macOS during terminal title spinner animation
- Ctrl+V in TUI is image-only when it reaches Codex as a key event; add symmetric text paste
- extension gets stuck in loading state
- Add hook_report_level config to suppress routine hook chatter
- figma/use_figma hangs in interactive Codex and cancels in codex exec
- apply_patch fails on Windows with `CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 206` for large patch payloads
- VS Code/WSL creates a persistent empty .codex file in workspace root
- Codex Desktop App / codex app-server does not honor project-scoped OTel config in trusted projects
- Bug: ~/.agents/skills loads, but ~/.agents/AGENTS.md is not loaded as user instructions
- Windows workspace-write sandbox launches PowerShell in a way that triggers profile access/language-mode errors; danger-full-access works
- Highly needed features
- Control-F shortcut for find conflicts with system binding for "move forward one character"
- Codex Desktop leaks stale local MCP wrapper processes after session shutdown
- Add PreSkillUse and PostSkillUse hooks for explicit and implicit skill usage
- [Bug] PTY Leak in Codex macOS Desktop App / Codex macOS 桌面端应用 PTY 泄漏问题
- Ubuntu 25.10: command failed; retry without sandbox?
- Windows Sandbox feature required but cannot be installed - Codex fails to initialize
- mprove File Reference Interaction (Clickable/Open File or Folder)
- Windows app sandbox refresh fails with localhost proxy (127.0.0.1:7890), intermittently breaking apply_patch and shell_command
- macOS: MallocStackLogging: can't turn off malloc stack logging because it was not enabled. appears when running Codex v0.118.0
- Windows desktop terminal pastes clipboard contents twice with Ctrl+Shift+V and Shift+Insert
- Skipping MCP during codex CLI startup
- let us customize user_message_style
- Was i added as a collaborator
- Pre and PostCompact hooks
- Add bulk export for CRM contacts and list members to CSV, with optional vCard export
- Have business customers been excluded from the Codex limit reset again?
- Codex Desktop macOS: Voice input, Realtime voice, Reasoning Effort, and Experimental Features missing — Statsig feature gates incorrectly disabled
- High CPU and disk usage on Windows immediately after Codex file edits when the changed-files result card appears
- Code review includes untracked working-tree files (root cause identified but never fixed)
- Responses API replay can fail on orphan reasoning item after interrupted turn
- Source builds show update prompts because version is treated as upgradeable
- Source builds show update prompts because version 0.0.0 is treated as upgradeable
- Chat scroll jumps to center and bounces uncontrollably when scrolling up
- ## Bug: Screenshot tool unavailable in environment
Resolved issues (37)
- Excessive Issue with Duplication of instructions
- not a bug
- Slow connections and 503 errors
- Codex app limits and model selection popups are not displayed on zoom
- Tooltip menu hidden when zoomed in with Cmd + in Codex desktop app
- Can you stop randomly resetting limits please ?
- Received output that looked like an advertisement
- Leaked debug tracing log in the TUI Codex CLI
- Chat input placeholder should not be selectable / copyable
- TUI shows expired promotional tip after April 2nd
- Feature Request: Skip Auto-Triggered Skills
- There was a problem, and it output a bunch of garbled nonsense
- bug: mouse pointer flickers (I-beam ↔ arrow) on macOS during terminal title spinner animation
- VS Code/WSL creates a persistent empty .codex file in workspace root
- extension gets stuck in loading state
- Ubuntu 25.10: command failed; retry without sandbox?
- IDS Dashboard
- mprove File Reference Interaction (Clickable/Open File or Folder)
- Add hook_report_level config to suppress routine hook chatter
- Bug: ~/.agents/skills loads, but ~/.agents/AGENTS.md is not loaded as user instructions
- /status doesn't mention global AGENTS.md
- Windows desktop terminal pastes clipboard contents twice with Ctrl+Shift+V and Shift+Insert
- Disabled remote HTTP MCP servers still trigger auth probing and add ~15s startup latency
- Highly needed features
- Codex app: Ability to search in the threads.
- Add a confirmation popup for logout button on the app
- Security concern: CodexSandboxOffline/Online assigned to entire user profile tree on Windows 11
- let us customize user_message_style
- Windows app sandbox refresh fails with localhost proxy (127.0.0.1:7890), intermittently breaking apply_patch and shell_command
- Was i added as a collaborator
- Azure Foundry tool sessions still fail on 0.118.0 without local payload patching
- Add bulk export for CRM contacts and list members to CSV, with optional vCard export
- Codex Desktop macOS: Voice input, Realtime voice, Reasoning Effort, and Experimental Features missing — Statsig feature gates incorrectly disabled
- High CPU and disk usage on Windows immediately after Codex file edits when the changed-files result card appears
- Responses API replay can fail on orphan reasoning item after interrupted turn
- Source builds show update prompts because version 0.0.0 is treated as upgradeable
- High CPU usage on macos codex extension