Digest / April 22, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 22, 2026
75 new issues filed ·
44 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (75)
- Full-line red/green backgrounds for diff reviewer (or make configurable) in Codex VS Code extension
- Windows sandbox applies DENY ACLs to .git directories in writable_roots, breaking git commits
- Persist update_plan task list in TUI after assistant response while waiting for user input
- macos intel codex app ui
- Feature request: persistent daemon agent for workspace context and main-agent coordination
- IME input issue on Windows: first character is not captured correctly when typing without focus
- [extension][Windows][Cursor/Antigravity] Long existing threads open as blank panel while short threads load normally
- Windows: Codex can fail to execute any PowerShell shell commands when PATH resolves an unusable pwsh alias
- Codex hung
- What Codex Is Missing: It’s the Harness, Not the Model
- Input box remain dark after the system theme turn to light
- Built-in image_gen is missing basic image controls like transparent background, size, quality, and masks
- Chat History Sidebar and Seperate history for each project.
- Git settings do not save commit instructions or pull request instructions
- Codex App shows different import options on same version across Macs
- stream disconnected before completion: An error occurred while processing your request
- Intermittent mismatch between displayed collaboration mode and actual model mode
- Resizable diff/code preview panel for suggested changes
- Plugin Linear authentication token expired in threads
- Frequent reconnect loop in Codex App: websocket closed by server before response.completed
- Add ability to create a worktree based on a remote branch
- VS Code extension: Existing chat thread gets stuck only in one workspace until thread receives a new response elsewhere
- app-server supports set model_provider on `turn/start`
- VS Code extension leaks and duplicates local stdio MCP processes on Windows
- Markdown diff code block does not color deleted lines in Codex Desktop dark theme
- Skills not showing for remote(s) in Codex Desktop
- Support `cwd` for `spawn_agent`
- The model has issues with recurrent visual perception.
- quota limits % used without any requests
- Codex app crashes on stale discovered SSH host after ~/.ssh/config is emptied or host entry is removed
- Codex Desktop: Computer Use approval denied via MCP elicitation for Chrome in a new thread, and no approval prompt appears
- macOS: stdio MCP tool calls can fail with raw `Transport closed` even when the underlying operation is healthy
- Add a true append-only interactive mode that preserves terminal scrollback
- Copy a piece of content to the CLI, and it is divided into two parts.
- Windows TUI: render common PowerShell actions as Read/Search/List instead of raw shell wrappers
- New handoff to worktree doesn't use environments
- [Windows] CLI hangs indefinitely during shell tool execution with large output (Get-Content -Raw)
- Windows: hide command-safety PowerShell parser process to avoid pwsh.exe console flashes
- Codex CLI notarization failure
- Unexpected adult-site string appended to output
- ignore
- Allow plugins to bundle and register custom agents
- Images 2 in Codex fails to generate backgroundless PNG whereas the web version does so perfectly.
- Request for man pages
- Model completely loses context thread and repeats previous response
- Codex App remote workspace bug
- Unable to open past conversation history in VS Code extension
- spawn_agent instructions
- Windows: stdio MCP handshake fails with Laravel Boost (php artisan boost:mcp) in Codex CLI 0.122.0
- Severe App laggyness on a good computer?
- Google tag
- Add RTK Directly Into Codex CLI to Reduce Token Usage 60–90% by Filtering Shell Command Output
- Add detection for CLion
- "You’re out of Codex messages. To continue upgrade to Plus" I am already using a Plus account
- Default permissions button often stuck in frozen state when activating older conversation
- Unrelated resume session with inaccessible cwd causes codex resume to hang
- Compact fails in CLI and Codex VS Code Extension
- Latest codex extension fails to resume after connections lost.
- Windows Codex Desktop creates automation thread but never starts agent turn
- /permissions needs to be able to be invoked during tasks
- Codex replies to my previous message, not the latest one
- "You've hit your usage limit" Despite just upgrading to Pro
- macOS 0.122.0: apply_patch hangs under workspace-write but succeeds under danger-full-access
- Surface reasoning_output_tokens in turn.completed.usage on the --json stream
- Document MCP env_vars for secret-manager session tokens like BW_SESSION
- Computer Use crashes on macOS 13.6.2 because bundled SkyComputerUseClient requires macOS 15.0
- [Redacted by author]
- Generated images are not automatically embedded after image generation
- Real usage analytics
- Session lost after battery shutdown + update — no rollout persisted for resumable session
- No prompt box or chat history
- Codex.app prepends bundled Resources directory to PATH, causing bundled Node to break native addons on macOS
- Show Q&A in session history on resume
- thread/resume and thread/fork ignore developerInstructions override on first resumed turn
- Codex Desktop review pane empty for WSL workspace because Git watcher uses Windows-local paths
Resolved issues (44)
- Terminal should open a login shell
- Allow queueing /new or /compact commands
- ApplyPatchHandler doesn't emit PreToolUse/PostToolUse hook event. Hooks only fire for Bash tool.
- `Tab` for queue message after a turn is ended does nothing
- macos intel codex app ui
- Security: init_firewall.sh does not re-resolve DNS, allowing DNS rebinding bypass
- Codex keeps asking "retry without sandbox" even when the file edit already succeeded
- Sandbox fail running commands
- [extension][Windows][Cursor/Antigravity] Long existing threads open as blank panel while short threads load normally
- Unrelated project in config.toml with inaccessible directory causes immediate hang
- Codex app-server provider probe fails on account.planType = "prolite"
- Bug: in apply-patch silently swallows mismatched replacement ranges
- CLI output & thinking order error, out of sequence & disordered
- Built-in image_gen is missing basic image controls like transparent background, size, quality, and masks
- What Codex Is Missing: It’s the Harness, Not the Model
- Ctrl+F does not move the cursor forward in the Codex composer in vscode
- stream disconnected before completion: An error occurred while processing your request
- Mac Codex Desktop misclassifies sessions from different projects under the same remote worktree as a single project
- memory creation refusing /// not adding new memorise up to a point
- VS Code extension leaks and duplicates local stdio MCP processes on Windows
- quota limits % used without any requests
- shortcut to open browser with side panel all at once
- Bug: Agent spawn slots leak across turns in persistent sessions (app-server / interactive CLI)
- [Windows] CLI hangs indefinitely during shell tool execution with large output (Get-Content -Raw)
- ignore
- The model has issues with recurrent visual perception.
- Unexpected adult-site string appended to output
- Images 2 in Codex fails to generate backgroundless PNG whereas the web version does so perfectly.
- Model completely loses context thread and repeats previous response
- Remote TUI can remain stale after app-server slow-websocket disconnect
- Severe App laggyness on a good computer?
- Codex Desktop: Computer Use approval denied via MCP elicitation for Chrome in a new thread, and no approval prompt appears
- "You’re out of Codex messages. To continue upgrade to Plus" I am already using a Plus account
- Add blocking PermissionRequest hook for external approval UIs
- hooks: add permission request event for parity with claude code's auto-approve flow
- Support "Edit|Write" matcher in PostToolUse and PreToolUse
- Codex replies to my previous message, not the latest one
- "You've hit your usage limit" Despite just upgrading to Pro
- Computer Use crashes on macOS 13.6.2 because bundled SkyComputerUseClient requires macOS 15.0
- bwrap: Approval prompt shown for almost every command
- Session logs data loss
- On Ubuntu, every single normal edit requires skipping sandbox
- Codex Desktop caches stale large-diff result after bad empty-tree snapshot is removed
- Performance: Code Helper (Renderer) exceeds 100% when Codex applies a code patch in VS Code