Digest / April 18, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 18, 2026
56 new issues filed ·
63 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (56)
- Codex App regression after Apr 17 update: first message in a new thread sends immediately, follow-up messages stall on send button before inference starts
- Let user change reasoning level/model when accepting a plan
- --add-dir does not grant write access on Ubuntu (workspace-write); writable_roots works
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Windows sandboxed shell commands fail with CreateRestrictedToken failed: 87 even with [windows] sandbox = "unelevated"
- [Codex Desktop] Add .lua syntax highlighting to .luau code blocks
- Codex Desktop: Plugin search does not match plugin description text
- Codex Desktop: Plugins page loses scroll position when navigating back from a plugin detail
- [Bug] reqwest HTTP clients missing User-Agent override → Cloudflare 403 from HKG edge on Codex Desktop 26.422.x
- CLI activity log shows only basenames for Explored/Read entries
- Persistent "Unable to transcribe audio" issue
- Composer gets stuck sending and leaves residual text after send
- Timeout waiting for child process to exit
- sustained high CPU after launch/reopen (persists during use) + model picker broken
- Feature request: allow rebinding an existing Codex Desktop conversation to a new workspace folder
- Windows: tool-called PowerShell fails before command execution, even for trivial commands like 'exit 0'
- Codex Desktop (from ms store) breaks file encoding and fails to save changes when files are inside folders with square brackets in the name
- Codex desktop app pegs CPU on macOS after latest update; fans surge and system lags even on small requests
- Add feature to forbid codex to push to git repo or to execute db commands
- [Proposal] Versioned Session Action Export
- Add Plan mode model override
- Desktop: first turn sometimes shows "Reconnecting... 2/5" even though app-server transport remains connected
- App automations should support minute-level schedules
- Codex sandbox loses captured stdout/stderr from nested Node.js child processes writing via `process.stdout` / `process.stderr`
- Can't stop a conversation
- -c config override for projects.<path>.trust_level is not ephemeral and can persist the opposite value to ~/.codex/config.toml
- The task status misses when the task is running
- Desktop app: user_input dispatches immediately and websocket connects immediately, but first tool/model event is delayed by 7-10s
- Bring back the diff view - I can view the entire file but not the diff - it's poor review UX!
- Language (native not coding) Switched to Portuguese
- High CPU usage / overheating on macOS when running scripts or making edits in Codex app
- Model migration prompt stores acknowledgements as [notice.model_migrations] mappings when keeping the existing model
- Codex Desktop thread list flips between symlink and realpath workspace projects
- Codex is increasing network usage
- Installing Codex CLI globally from npm
- Windows Codex Desktop MCP tool wrapper reports `Transport closed` while same stdio server works directly
- Implement the command /new to create a new chat in IDE Extension
- Retain status line when in plan mode
- Allowing compact to be triggered by prompts in VSCode
- Add a 'Compact context and implement plan' option to Plan Mode
- [Feature request] Extend PreToolUse hooks beyond Bash + implement updatedInput rewrite
- write_stdin dispatch is not gated on exec session stdin liveness
- macOS desktop follow-up message submit delayed 5-10s after Computer Use update
- Plan mode fails exact replacement of security redaction placeholder block and still reports ready to implement
- Panel blocking content
- Fresh-thread token usage is massively inflated by enabled plugins/skills/apps in Codex Desktop
- Codex not working on a processor without AVX-512 support
- Windows Codex App remote connections fail when the remote machine's 127.0.0.1:9234 is already in use
- tui onboarding: warn when trusting git subdirectories
- Windows Codex app + WSL: UNC cwd breaks terminal, Windows config leaks into WSL, and worktrees need a WSL-native CODEX_HOME
- macOS CLI: bundled Computer Use helper requests microphone permission without audio-input entitlement, then fails with "Apple event error -10000: Sender process is not authenticated"
- Codex desktop app shows verbose tool-trace rows in chat and hurts readability
- Codex Desktop deleted workspace roots + installed apps on failed archive (bypassed Recycle Bin)
- Broken flow: creating an automation template
- Enhancement: stronger Windows guardrails before destructive filesystem operations
- Please add back usage telemetry in IDE Extension
Resolved issues (63)
- Codex App regression after Apr 17 update: first message in a new thread sends immediately, follow-up messages stall on send button before inference starts
- Add option to automatically expand modified code in Codex App
- Feature request: mobile companion to view and control Codex desktop sessions
- Composer gets stuck sending and leaves residual text after send
- Failed to apply patch seems to get classified as a sandbox issue
- Windows: tool-called PowerShell fails before command execution, even for trivial commands like 'exit 0'
- Add Plan mode model override
- Desktop app: user_input dispatches immediately and websocket connects immediately, but first tool/model event is delayed by 7-10s
- Implement the command /new to create a new chat in IDE Extension
- Feature request: allow rebinding an existing Codex Desktop conversation to a new workspace folder
- Add feature to forbid codex to push to git repo or to execute db commands
- Language (native not coding) Switched to Portuguese
- High CPU usage / overheating on macOS when running scripts or making edits in Codex app
- Codex is increasing network usage
- Allowing compact to be triggered by prompts in VSCode
- Model migration prompt stores acknowledgements as [notice.model_migrations] mappings when keeping the existing model
- macOS desktop follow-up message submit delayed 5-10s after Computer Use update
- Plan mode fails exact replacement of security redaction placeholder block and still reports ready to implement
- Show custom session name on status bar
- Viewing `Codex Security` reports in the desktop application
- Desktop app: add search bar/filter in Settings on macOS
- Add queued commands alongside queued messages in Codex CLI
- Allow additional folders into a project's Windows Sandbox
- Provide model preset options for third-party API bases, similar to codexcli
- Debounce popup accelerators while the user is typing
- Support multiple bottom airline/statusline rows in the CLI
- Support CTRL + DELETE to delete full words
- Add option to disable preambles
- The MCP Resources can often fill up the entire screen.
- Better management of context output management structure
- Add --output-schema support to codex exec resume
- Support mouse event handling for seamless cursor movement in TUI
- SCAN protocol: preventing instruction drift in long sessions (~300 token overhead)
- Fine grained context per task instead of per project.
- Add path-scoped review filters to codex exec review
- Add staged-only code review target via index snapshot
- Feature request: allow a separate model for context compaction
- Add a keyboard modal for selecting and actioning structured reply units
- Support `model_context_window`/`model_auto_compact_token_limit` in profiles
- Support larger prompt images on gpt-5.4
- Distribute using open build service
- Change `TokenCount` to not re-emit `last_token_usage` on rate-limit-only updates
- Resume screen needs a structural bottom split to preview the conversation tail
- Resume/session browser needs a safe two-step delete flow
- Feature request: Text-to-speech option for streaming status updates
- [Feature Request] Scoped context compaction for exploratory phases
- Enterprise protected context injection for monorepo policy enforcement
- Feature Request: Add Credit Purchase History on Website
- Add a native pre-turn dynamic context hook for time-sensitive metadata
- No response - Uploaded thread: 019b95bd-7381-7fa0-92a3-6808dca41f08
- Codex tries to run shell commands in single quotes
- Unable to run any shell commands
- Creating cloud tasks targets wrong repo
- Read-only mode fails to run git diff - likely Regression
- Unable to use codex mcp server as an mcp within a codex session
- python_multiprocessing_lock_works_under_sandbox fails on Python 3.14; Python 3.12 passes
- TLSv1.3-only streamable HTTP MCP behind nginx fails with native-tls backend on macOS
- Compaction may leave Codex responding to an earlier request after the user has moved on
- Fix: Desktop App - Message send is delayed for ~8 seconds in new sessions after the latest update
- Codex desktop app pegs CPU on macOS after latest update; fans surge and system lags even on small requests
- Codex not working on a processor without AVX-512 support
- Enhancement: stronger Windows guardrails before destructive filesystem operations
- Broken flow: creating an automation template