Digest / April 29, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 29, 2026
111 new issues filed ·
33 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (111)
- Codex resume picker is slow on WSL2 with large rollout JSONL files despite state_5.sqlite index
- ghost of claude code aka SCROLLING to a random point in the conversation
- Codex Desktop Plugins page renders broken on Intel Mac
- gpt 5.5 has a bug
- Codex Windows desktop app stuck on logo/loading screen
- Feature request: archive Codex conversations to a project folder
- Improve the VS Code extension UX and interaction flow
- Changelog on Website via HELP button only leads to authored outdated posts
- Issue: GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark appears to be blocked by the general Codex quota despite having a separate Spark meter.
- Feedback: web automation safety boundary is too conservative for single-run engineering validation
- Codex Desktop on Windows shows blank white window when auth token is invalidated
- Account has free tier plan when i should be on 'plus'
- Native Agent Creator
- Codex App Remote SSH is slow and fragile behind NLB compared with VS Code Remote SSH
- cybersecurity "risk" after crawling a public surface behind cloudflare
- Windows: browser-use IAB can initialize and list tabs, but tab.goto() fails with `failed to start codex app-server: 系统找不到指定的路径 (os error 3)`
- VS Code extension cannot reopen some local sessions that CLI can resume
- Regression: GPT-5.4 / GPT-5.5 1M context setting is ignored in Codex IDE extension, stuck at 258k
- Per-agent MCP server scoping: allow subagents to opt out of inherited MCP servers
- Session-scoped notes panel for Codex Desktop App (shared user/agent + private regions)
- Feature request: command-backed/custom statusline rendering in Codex CLI
- Figma remote MCP plugin stopped working !
- Failed to update connection
- app-server config/value/write returns configPathNotFound when clearing an unset nested config value
- Full page screenshots within App Browser
- Rider Codex - windows defender - trojan Trojan:Script/Wacatac.F!ml
- Codex App: In a Windows environment, Codex cannot initialize PowerShell
- Quotas draining like crazy: burnt 100% of my 5h limit in 10 min on Business
- automatic triggered "remote compact task" never works (Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion)
- Phone number verification doesn't work
- Speed setting resets to Fast on VS Code reopen and cannot be changed while Codex settings tab is open
- Codex Desktop on Windows 10 cannot send the first message in a newly created project (workspace_dependencies unsupported)
- Codex APP File Tree: can not copy directory path and flush files/dirs during chat creating
- codex resume --all does not list existing local sessions, while resume <session-id> can open them
- Mac app: local Markdown images fail to render when path contains non-ASCII characters
- Codex hangs on startup at 'Starting MCP servers (2/3): codex_apps'
- Codex app blank screen when expired/deactivated workspace is selected
- Weekly limits dropping too quickly
- App loads blank on Windows 10
- Codex stalling when loading past chat history.
- Codex Stopping
- Linear Agent SDK cannot spawn cloud agent
- Codex writes to stale file version when jupyter notebook has unsaved changes
- Computer Use MCP fails to start on macOS 14.8.1 because bundled client requires macOS 15
- Codex Desktop hides local history for custom Azure model provider after restart (e.g. corporate API key)
- Desktop project sidebar hides sessions when Symphony automation threads flood local thread store
- Desktop project sidebar shows No chats after Symphony automation creates many threads
- VSCode CODEX extension workspace_dependencies failure when trying to load new agent window.
- Codex Fails to Run in WSL Ubuntu After Moving Its Location Due to Missing `/usr/bin/bash`
- German localization: quota reset time is truncated in Status dialog
- When running multiple agents in a session, switching between agents clears the message queue in the main thread.
- After VS Code restart/reload, the first Codex history session I click fails to render.
- File tree labels are overly truncated even when there is enough horizontal space
- MCP server should respond to resource and prompt requests instead of dropping them
- MCP CLI should expose validation, tool listing, and enable/disable management
- Codex VSCode extension send message randomly stuck forever
- VSCode Codex can't open specific message, but when using Codex desktop open once, it can now be opened at VS Code Codex extension.
- frozen 100% shown in /status and website
- Codex stuck unresponsive in large git repos (autogen selfreport from codex)
- Rate limit widget too small to read
- GROUNDING.MD - grounding during software development enforcing agents to follow community-supported domain knowledge
- Support per-project Fast Mode / speed-tier configuration
- Inconsistent PreToolUse hook coverage across tool handlers (most tools never emit hook events)
- Codex only replies and doesn’t actually execute
- Browser Use fails on Windows Codex Desktop: failed to start codex app-server (os error 3)
- VS Code Codex extension hangs when opening previous thread; thread state broadcasts have no handler
- Performance: long time to abort after pressed Ctrl+C
- Support skill filtering for project-local skills.config entries
- Computer Use unavailable when Codex is updated under a different macOS user
- Codex/ChatGPT VS Code extension triggers fan ramp-up and software GPU/WebGL fallback on Linux with GPT-5.5
- Multi-terminal codex CLI freezes due to SQLite lock contention with no BUSY retry
- Codex App frequently freezes/stutters on Windows 11 Pro despite sufficient system resources
- Inline LaTeX formulas ($...$) intermittently fail to render in the Codex app.
- Require Double Escape to Stop a Running Turn in the IDE Extension
- Codex Windows desktop app stuck on logo/loading screen after clean reinstall
- Codex app freezes on certain threads - crashing app and making thread inaccessible
- Desktop app zsh snapshot export filter omits PATH, breaking Homebrew tools
- Missing "New Worktree" option in "Continue in"
- test_perm_check_DELETE_ME
- Codex App automatically deletes the built-in Image Gen skill after launch
- codex-rescue invocation deleted user source repo on disk (destructive cleanup before auth check)
- Codex keeps using search_tool by mistake, repeatedly.
- XTerms constantly crashing
- Quota usage is extremly high for basic tasks
- Add a first-class workflow for reviewing and clearing old CLI sessions
- Agents.md is empty in /status in current session where created.
- The sidebar review tab can't show all 17 of my changed files, even with collapsed diffs
- Codex CLI shows a cybersecurity risk warning for benign software development prompts.
- I found a bug for the infinite codex limit, but I don't know how I made the bug. / я нашёл баг на бесконечный лимит codex, только незнаю как я сделал баг
- Codex Desktop in-app browser panel width is shared across projects
- Codex usage limit not decreasing (possible bug) / я нашёл баг на бесконечный лимит codex, только незнаю как я сделал баг
- Custom command-backed TUI status line or colored status banner
- feat: treat bare `exit` and `quit` as aliases for `/exit`
- Browser Use IAB backend cannot attach: Node REPL runtime missing __codexNativePipe
- Centralize and Support High-Level Developer Instructions
- Codex App: Add UI controls to delete local threads and session data
- Codex Cloud task fails with "An unknown error occurred"
- Windows Codex Desktop sidebar hides valid local project threads while SQLite and rollout files are intact
- Feature request: optional completion / needs-attention notifications for Codex IDE Extension
- Add fish support for Unix command execution shell detection
- Store /side chats in session logs
- ctrl+d in /side should exit the side chat, not exit codex
- Codex Desktop becomes unrecoverable on launch when the most recent session rollout exceeds ~500 MB
- The context window is too small --- Auto Compact on Terminal is completely broken
- Stuck in "Loading Diff..." for Windows Codex App
- Plugins and Skills pages render blurred/unreadable in Codex desktop
- Provide in-app help for TUI slash commands
- Codex Desktop 26.422.71525 triggers AppleSystemPolicy/spctl failures and was involved in a macOS 26.4.1 kernel panic
- Vercel connector cannot recover from revoked or stale OAuth grant after account switch
- All context is lost upon editing message from before compaction
- Please add better skill organization controls in the Codex app
Resolved issues (33)
- Codex resume picker is slow on WSL2 with large rollout JSONL files despite state_5.sqlite index
- gpt 5.5 has a bug
- Improve the VS Code extension UX and interaction flow
- Typing on the CLI since 0.100 is very slow
- Feedback: web automation safety boundary is too conservative for single-run engineering validation
- Issue: GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark appears to be blocked by the general Codex quota despite having a separate Spark meter.
- cybersecurity "risk" after crawling a public surface behind cloudflare
- Regression: GPT-5.4 / GPT-5.5 1M context setting is ignored in Codex IDE extension, stuck at 258k
- Codex Desktop: Codex Helper (Renderer) high CPU when popout window shortcut is enabled
- Feature request: command-backed/custom statusline rendering in Codex CLI
- The codex application and extensions cannot be accessed
- Codex app blank screen when expired/deactivated workspace is selected
- Desktop project sidebar hides sessions when Symphony automation threads flood local thread store
- Account has free tier plan when i should be on 'plus'
- MCP CLI should expose validation, tool listing, and enable/disable management
- Support per-project Fast Mode / speed-tier configuration
- test_perm_check_DELETE_ME
- codex-rescue invocation deleted user source repo on disk (destructive cleanup before auth check)
- Codex CLI shows a cybersecurity risk warning for benign software development prompts.
- Custom command-backed TUI status line or colored status banner
- feat: treat bare `exit` and `quit` as aliases for `/exit`
- Codex App: Add UI controls to delete local threads and session data
- Codex Cloud task fails with "An unknown error occurred"
- Windows Codex Desktop sidebar hides valid local project threads while SQLite and rollout files are intact
- Feature request: optional completion / needs-attention notifications for Codex IDE Extension
- Codex desktop on Windows cannot start PowerShell host in session (8009001d)
- Windows app and CLI child processes start with missing core env vars, breaking dotnet/NuGet and git networking
- Add fish support for Unix command execution shell detection
- Agents.md is empty in /status in current session where created.
- Codex app freezes on certain threads - crashing app and making thread inaccessible
- Official codex-cli 0.120.0 sends raw multibyte JSON in x-codex-turn-metadata, breaking HTTP interoperability
- Plugins and Skills pages render blurred/unreadable in Codex desktop
- Provide in-app help for TUI slash commands