Digest / April 9, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 9, 2026
54 new issues filed ·
25 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (54)
- Agent environment and integrated terminal shell tied to the project rather than general setting for windows codex app
- Windows workspace-write sandbox can change project ownership to CodexSandboxOffline and cause persistent write failures
- Codex Web UX Issues: No Chat Organization, No Rename, and Archived Chats Not Accessible
- VSCode extension ships with two binaries, wasting disk space
- Project-based Chat Separation (Isolated Chat Context per Project)
- Feature: add a dedicated /usage command in Codex CLI
- codex resume last. This command allows users to quickly resume their last session without having to specify the session ID.
- 100% weekly usage on 1 prompt
- Long threads can jump back to top while scrolling downward toward latest output
- Alias `--resume` to `resume`
- Codex CLI terminal title animation issues under `screen`
- VS Code extension: infinite reconnect loop + "stream disconnected before completion"
- Codex CLI hangs (sometimes taken over 5-6 minutes thinking) and there are no feedback
- Im run into this issue, were its trying to reconnect
- Stream disconnected before completion: An error occurred while processing your request.
- TUI: add undo-last-paste for composer drafts
- UX: Codex App - Settings modal should be closed when collapsing the sidebar view
- Windows app: official pinned taskbar icon does not restore hidden main window after close-to-background
- Real Plan And Rigorous Mode
- VS Code extension keeps switching from ChatGPT Plus auth to API key / Codex mode
- Codex Extension running Powershell behind every command
- External review tool calls not working properly
- Codex sidebar minimum width regressed in VS Code 26.406.31014 on Windows
- Search bar problem
- Codex sidebar minimum width regressed in VS Code 26.406.31014 on Windows
- 他妈的能不能别乱更新啊，傻逼东西，车轱辘话一直说不去解决问题？？？？？？？？？
- Codex enters corrupted infinite-generation state and streams multilingual gibberish without terminating
- IDE Extension: gated VS Code debugger integration (inspect/control)
- Recurrent instruction-to-UI leakage in frontier GPT models: development criteria and agent instructions appear verbatim in final user-facing copy
- Codex app can enter an AppleSystemPolicy retry loop and drive syspolicyd/trustd high CPU on macOS
- Reopen #3927: codex auth login fails with "Port 127.0.0.1:1455 is already in use" on WSL
- Add Syntax Highlightnig for Apex Code
- Codex Windows App keeps spawning `git.exe status --porcelain=v1 -z` and leaves orphan `git.exe` / `conhost.exe` processes
- Automations fail are self archived to cover up mistakes/issues forever - wasted credits/lost subscriptions
- Download plan button should create NAMED md files, not plan.md files
- fix: unified_exec yield_time_ms behaves as floor instead of ceiling
- CLI: first-party completion sound still needed despite hooks / terminal notifications
- codex is dropping zero length .codex files in filesystems.
- Path-aware dynamic rule loading for better code-quality control
- Codex tool runtime intermittently loses `apply_patch` path and fails with `No such file or directory`
- Export chat session in the Codex Desktop App as a markdown file
- CLI/TUI: support editing an already-sent user message and regenerating downstream turns
- Windows: Codex desktop loses VS Code connection after first message, main "New chat" button stops working, app-server exits after plugin 403
- /mcp shows Tools: (none) for working stdio MCP servers on codex-cli 0.118.0 (Linux)
- Confirmation screen after submitting /feedback
- plan-mode-prompt TUI notification does not fire for plan-mode clarification questions in codex-cli 0.118.0
- Lost my pinned threads (and multiple chat threads) with latest app update.
- Codex App for Windows fail to startup in WSL Agent mode
- Prioritize recent file references in Codex chat autocomplete for @file mentions
- Codex 5.4 Extra High Memory Leak
- The full patch hit the Windows command-length limit
- feat: /model support for LM Studio and Ollama local model switching
- Codex does not auto-refresh routed MCP OAuth tokens even when a refresh token is stored
- zero bytes .codex file being created in repo on codex response
Resolved issues (25)
- codex resume <name> can fail after a fresh thread is auto-named, and unsaved name entries can shadow older saved sessions
- Codex Web UX Issues: No Chat Organization, No Rename, and Archived Chats Not Accessible
- VSCode extension ships with two binaries, wasting disk space
- Published Codex config schema is stricter than tolerated real-world `~/.codex/config.toml` files (4 root-level fields)
- Source builds show update prompts because version is treated as upgradeable
- codex resume last. This command allows users to quickly resume their last session without having to specify the session ID.
- Codex sidebar minimum width regressed in VS Code 26.406.31014 on Windows
- Stdio MCP child processes are not cleaned up and accumulate indefinitely
- Lost part of thread history and all subagent thread history after Codex App restart.
- Search bar problem
- Codex CLI terminal title animation issues under `screen`
- Real Plan And Rigorous Mode
- Alias `--resume` to `resume`
- 他妈的能不能别乱更新啊，傻逼东西，车轱辘话一直说不去解决问题？？？？？？？？？
- Codex enters corrupted infinite-generation state and streams multilingual gibberish without terminating
- 100% weekly usage on 1 prompt
- Recurrent instruction-to-UI leakage in frontier GPT models: development criteria and agent instructions appear verbatim in final user-facing copy
- High CPU usage when idle: background git/subprocess churn in Codex (Electron/Node) even when UI is inactive
- fix: unified_exec yield_time_ms behaves as floor instead of ceiling
- codex is dropping zero length .codex files in filesystems.
- Desktop app: archived child threads still show spinner after archive in sidebar
- CLI/TUI: support editing an already-sent user message and regenerating downstream turns
- misbind Ctrl+F on macos
- Path-aware dynamic rule loading for better code-quality control
- zero bytes .codex file being created in repo on codex response