Digest / April 21, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 21, 2026
75 new issues filed ·
41 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (75)
- Unrelated project in config.toml with inaccessible directory causes immediate hang
- codex mcp login fails against TLS 1.3-only OAuth providers on macOS
- macOS Intel: broken desktop UI rendering (clipped workspace/sidebar, malformed Plugins page, and broken slash-command overlay)
- stable-metadata error loop in non-git folders causes high CPU in the VS Code extension
- Show active running tabs on top similar to browser tabs
- Codex Desktop remote project picker shows WSL folders when SSH host is selected
- Codex Desktop remote project picker shows WSL folders when win SSH host is selected
- unexpected status 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- Codex App: "Branch out" button missing under message after latest update
- 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- unexpected status 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- Starting MCP servers (1/2): codex_apps when running /review
- unexpected status 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- codex change model bug
- Random action terminal exiting and redirecting to new thread
- removing "codex --enable use_legacy_landlock" will cause a lot of issues for a lot of people
- statusline usage broken
- Feedback icons (thumbs up/down) do not show a clear selected state in Codex App
- macOS desktop shows "Computer Use plugin unavailable" even though bundled computer-use plugin exists
- Shortcut must include Cmd/Ctrl or Alt.But Option is not Alt
- Codex app-server provider probe fails on account.planType = "prolite"
- Support switching ChatGPT/OpenAI accounts without losing the current session
- codex freezes when queued message is reached/begun, with multiple windows open.
- Expose exact quota reset timestamps as status line items in Codex CLI.
- Need /compact in codex app and IDE extension
- Cache expiration countdown timer in status line
- Codex extension crashes with code=3221225477 on Windows
- SSH Connect Timeout Configurable
- [FIX Request] Codex Windows sandbox networking fails due to ACL error
- VS Code: "Rate limits remaining" missing from status bar in some windows
- Custom agent requests are easy to misrout to skills instead of .codex/agents/*.toml custom agents
- Add support for Rider is in "Open In" menu on Windows
- High CPU and repeated upload activity when adding a non-git project to the sidebar
- Repeated automatic context compaction after every prompt/task.
- Windows Codex app can open repo local environment file in WSL project, but composer dropdown shows "No environments found"
- Remote compaction times out
- When pressing ESC ESC ESC up up enter you can't get back to the last turn - and this rollback sometimes crashes
- Capability-Scoped Script Access for Codex
- Always a black box blocking the view in the UI
- [Redacted by author]
- Show Hidden Counts on Each Tab
- Allow update with running conversations
- Codex Desktop macOS: renderer CPU spike with repeated stable-metadata "Not a git repository" errors
- /compact and auto-compact fail with "stream disconnected before completion" since April 15, 2026
- Startup time 20 seconds and resume 20 seconds.
- Destructive cleanup can be auto-approved during premature rewrite "finalization" under guardian auto-review
- Fast mode disappeared from settings and chat
- Codex VS Code extension fails to enable realtime_conversation; new chats cannot switch model and Output is flooded with worker warnings
- Windows Desktop: injected AGENTS.md instructions can be treated as a substitute for disk read, and fs/watch fails for AGENTS.md with AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- Windows sandbox: setup helper launch fails with "orchestrator_helper_launch_canceled: ShellExecuteExW failed to launch setup helper: 1223"
- Cannot find old context for the current workspace
- Codex Sessions 61GB ??????
- Codex still writes literal "\n" into git commit messages instead of real newlines
- TUI: /side cannot access /permissions, and returning from /side can restore stale main-thread permissions
- Add keyboard shortcuts or keyboard navigation (Talon users)
- Plugins screen ("Make Codex work your way") renders blank panel and clipped rows on macOS
- Support user-defined local slash commands in interactive Codex sessions
- Codex Desktop App: support Kitty as external terminal
- Remote TUI can remain stale after app-server slow-websocket disconnect
- Native Windows Codex app: workspace dependency repair fails; npx/tsx and esbuild hit EPERM in sandbox
- Plugin cache install silently drops symlinks from local plugin sources
- Unable to upgrade from Go plan
- Codex app terminal renders with extreme letter spacing after update on macOS
- Codex Update Error
- Ctrl+F does not move the cursor forward in the Codex composer in vscode
- MCP child processes leak when McpConnectionManager is replaced
- Feature request: Claude-style /recap
- Stop hook invalid JSON error is too opaque for unsupported fields
- Codex Desktop caches stale large-diff result after bad empty-tree snapshot is removed
- Bash profile is not loaded correctly
- macOS sandbox: Turbopack next build completes work but does not exit, leaving .next/lock open
- Codex Desktop macOS: Computer Use approval denied via MCP elicitation for every app even after reinstall, reboot, and granting Screen Recording + Accessibility
- Codex security disappeared (link gone and 404 when trying to access via url)
- Codex image generation saves transparent-background requests as opaque RGB PNGs
- TUI: support Markdown math rendering for inline and block LaTeX
Resolved issues (41)
- macOS: Cloudflare 403 blocks all chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses requests — CLI unusable while browser works on same network
- 403 Forbidden error in the middle of normal usage
- 403 forbidden error.
- Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 403 Forbidden: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact, cf-ray: 9ef4e4f49ed1fdb1-PDX Version 26.415.40636 (1799)
- We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- stable-metadata error loop in non-git folders causes high CPU in the VS Code extension
- Regression in 0.115.0: shell commands fail in WSL due to bubblewrap namespace setup
- bwrap block file modifications in the workspace direcotry
- Linux sandbox fails with "bwrap: Can't create file ... Is a directory" when protected workspace path is a symlinked directory
- Codex Desktop remote project picker shows WSL folders when SSH host is selected
- Bubblewrap sandbox fails inside container for commands on bind-mounted host paths
- Regression in v0.116.0 Linux sandbox startup: bwrap fails with "Failed to make / slave", while Landlock works
- 0.118.0 sandbox write regression on Linux
- Persisting approvals for file edits does not work
- Codex App: "Branch out" button missing under message after latest update
- 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- unexpected status 404 Not Found: Model not found gpt-5.4
- removing "codex --enable use_legacy_landlock" will cause a lot of issues for a lot of people
- Need /compact in codex app and IDE extension
- [FIX Request] Codex Windows sandbox networking fails due to ACL error
- Codex App: New window isn't focused on launch
- Codex Dictate mode cancels transcription on chat changes
- User turns can continue in completed subagent thread after parent spawned it, leaving subagent role active
- [Redacted by author]
- Random action terminal exiting and redirecting to new thread
- Accented characters not working in Codex on WSL2 terminal in VSCode
- [FEATURE] Structured session metrics in codex exec output (tokens, cost, outcome)
- [Redacted by author]
- High CPU and repeated upload activity when adding a non-git project to the sidebar
- Remote compaction times out
- Codex Desktop macOS: renderer CPU spike with repeated stable-metadata "Not a git repository" errors
- /compact and auto-compact fail with "stream disconnected before completion" since April 15, 2026
- Fast mode disappeared from settings and chat
- Windows Desktop: injected AGENTS.md instructions can be treated as a substitute for disk read, and fs/watch fails for AGENTS.md with AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path
- Cannot find old context for the current workspace
- Codex Sessions 61GB ??????
- Codex still writes literal "\n" into git commit messages instead of real newlines
- Codex Desktop remote project picker shows WSL folders when win SSH host is selected
- Support user-defined local slash commands in interactive Codex sessions
- steer does not work with shell commands
- Codex app terminal renders with extreme letter spacing after update on macOS