Digest / April 30, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — April 30, 2026
88 new issues filed ·
38 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (88)
- MCP tool approval_mode=approve still prompts when encrypted tool payload cannot be inspected
- Usage limits exhausting too fast
- High CPU usage in VS Code when opening Codex panel in a non-Git workspace
- First attempt to use codex in linux terminal
- Low cache hit rate when Codex integrates with GPT-5.5
- Severe display/rendering corruption in Codex app on Intel Mac
- Disappearing chat history (sentences or paragraphs randomly vanishing)
- Cannot use gpt-5.3-codex-spark model
- Codex App in-app browser does not render iframes on localhost
- Usage Limit Status both in CLI and SDKs
- Add "service_tier" to JSONL token usage logs
- Feature request: native event-driven session wake primitive
- Chronicle can drive replayd to 100% CPU and make CleanShot / ScreenCaptureKit hang on macOS 26.0
- browser-use (browser-client.mjs) marked as trojan by Windows Defender
- Codex Desktop: archived local thread cannot be resumed after restore due to mismatched path between sessions/ and archived_sessions/
- ChatGPT asking phone number verify but didn't send any code yet
- Windows Defender severe detection on bundled Codex Browser Use plugin
- MCP Toolbox for Databases read-only SQL call is blocked by safety guard after explicit approval (interactive mode)
- VS Code Codex plugin history goes blank — session_index.jsonl falls out of sync with state_5.sqlite
- Feature request: control local PC Codex remotely from the mobile app
- Repeat reconnecting loop. Can't use cli or codex anywhere
- Windows: Sandbox cannot spawn any process (all commands fail with exit code -1073741502)
- VS Code extension: repeated edits of a previous message duplicate hidden context and exhaust context window
- Codex Desktop accumulates duplicate MCP/helper process trees and multi-GB RSS during UI/debugging workflows
- Codex VS Code extension lists chats that cannot be opened
- Phone number formatting bug for +251 adds extra leading zero and prevents verification code delivery
- Allow copying of Codex-generated questions and contextual tooltips
- Codex Computer Use helper crashes on macOS 14.x: SkyComputerUseClient built with minos 15.0
- Windows Codex Desktop Browser Use fails to start app-server for DOM/screenshot on in-app browser
- When starting a new chat, thinking effort defaults to low and cannot be changed intil chat starts
- Codex does not follow instructions correctly, goes off on tangent modifying files when not asked to do so based on assumptions without reading the files
- Browser plugin missing
- Add `SessionEnd` hook event for session/thread shutdown
- perf(process_manager): replace sort with BinaryHeap in process_id_to_prune_from_meta
- Conversation interrupted
- "You've hit your usage limit." Despite 30% weekly Limit Usage Remaining
- VS Code extension fails to hydrate thread when rollout JSONL ends with dangling task_started
- Clarify Codex rate-limit reset behavior and make reset scope visible in Usage UI
- Remote connections can mix project/thread host state when SSH hosts share HOME
- Chat history not loading
- Windows: sidebar ghost trails/stale repaints at 120Hz; disabling GPU compositor fixes it
- Codex Desktop automations do not dispatch prompt correctly for WSL workspaces
- Codex IDE extension keeps asking for edit approval after "don't ask for this session" / Full access
- Windows Codex Desktop WSL: Browser Use IAB skill unavailable because node_repl/js tool is not injected
- Codex Desktop archived automation runs stay red and cannot be opened even though thread/resume succeeds
- macOS Desktop sidebar hides older local conversations despite existing thread state
- In `screen` it repeated beats while thinking
- codex cli sandbox blocks tokio signal handling on UnixStream/socketpair(AF_UNIX...)
- VS Code Codex extension is missing a way to rename and delete old chats
- Codex Desktop renderer spins at high CPU while codex MCP servers are idle
- Repeated Compact-related ERROR & Stuck in Working
- Conversation interrupted
- Make external access opt-in by default in Codex CLI
- Google Drive connector should support creating files in a specific folder
- Zoom in and zoom out is not working with Mini Window
- Feature request: Cursor-style codebase indexing for the Codex Mac app to reduce repeated Exploring time
- Mac app: persistent project index UI to reduce repeated Exploring time
- Codex gets into a state that prevents more chats
- Codex 10x usage promotion reports incorrect quota available
- Image Gen support during plan mode
- Regression: Codex desktop shell cannot attach to WSL2 distros while normal PowerShell can
- Regression: Codex desktop shell cannot attach to WSL2 distros while normal PowerShell can
- Feature request: Slack plugin inbound mentions/DMs should wake a Codex Desktop thread
- Ability to delete or clear Codex Web conversation history, especially when it syncs into Codex App
- Allow changing reasoning/thinking effort on the fly in the CLI with a slash command
- Codex Desktop shows stale last-edited age for local thread
- Add a screen-reader-friendly Codex TUI mode
- In-app browser comment marker overlay can get stuck covering the page
- Codex desktop app: add dark mode / follow system appearance
- Desktop should update or restart remote Codex app-server when version is too old
- Codex Desktop: chats disappear after update/import; imported threads open blank despite JSONL turns
- Conditionally start MCP servers based on project
- wrong classsifcion for CTF challenge as danger
- Codex app in-app browser automation fails with "failed to start codex app-server: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)" on Windows
- `/feedback` is recommended after a false-positive safety block, but sending `/feedback` is blocked too
- Feature request: support multiple named accounts per app/connector
- Regression: Alt+Enter no longer inserts newline in VS Code WSL terminal
- MCP OAuth login does not include scopes during dynamic client registration
- Codex App should not auto-select or probe SSH config hosts without explicit opt-in
- Chat History Deleted
- Codex Desktop / Automations local execution environment bug
- `codex exec` on Windows spawns a visible long-lived PowerShell helper window when launched headlessly
- MCP transport silently swallows non-2xx HTTP errors as JSON-RPC deserialization failures
- Codex App automation/heartbeat repeatedly fails to resume a running thread on Windows because the same session JSONL path is compared with and without the extended path prefix.
- MCP transport does not implement OAuth step-up authentication for 403 insufficient_scope
- It is faster to wait for the claude code's 5 hour window refresh than build codex from source code
- Please also make performance improvements on Windows
- Slack installation stalls on Windows
Resolved issues (38)
- ctrl+d in /side should exit the side chat, not exit codex
- High CPU usage in VS Code when opening Codex panel in a non-Git workspace
- WebSocket connection fails with non-ASCII characters in workspace path
- Severe display/rendering corruption in Codex app on Intel Mac
- Cannot use gpt-5.3-codex-spark model
- Windows Defender severe detection on bundled Codex Browser Use plugin
- Codex macOS desktop app infinite-loads after login
- VS Code Codex plugin history goes blank — session_index.jsonl falls out of sync with state_5.sqlite
- Feature request: control local PC Codex remotely from the mobile app
- Codex Desktop accumulates duplicate MCP/helper process trees and multi-GB RSS during UI/debugging workflows
- app-server config/value/write returns configPathNotFound when clearing an unset nested config value
- Codex App 26.422.62136 on macOS: left nav items flicker/glitch with cursor blink, typing, and hover states
- frozen 100% shown in /status and website
- Cannot run build
- "You've hit your usage limit." Despite 30% weekly Limit Usage Remaining
- Chat history not loading
- Codex IDE extension keeps asking for edit approval after "don't ask for this session" / Full access
- Codex Desktop app spawns Git on launch in read-only mode and leaves massive tmp_pack_/tmp_obj_ garbage in .git/objects on macOS
- VS Code Codex extension is missing a way to rename and delete old chats
- Make external access opt-in by default in Codex CLI
- Add `SessionEnd` hook event for session/thread shutdown
- Conversation interrupted
- Clarify Codex rate-limit reset behavior and make reset scope visible in Usage UI
- Codex does not follow instructions correctly, goes off on tangent modifying files when not asked to do so based on assumptions without reading the files
- Feature request: Cursor-style codebase indexing for the Codex Mac app to reduce repeated Exploring time
- Mac app: persistent project index UI to reduce repeated Exploring time
- We have to open Codex App to load chats in IDE extension
- Regression: Codex desktop shell cannot attach to WSL2 distros while normal PowerShell can
- Allow changing reasoning/thinking effort on the fly in the CLI with a slash command
- Update pull request when using „@codex fix comments“
- Codex desktop app: add dark mode / follow system appearance
- wrong classsifcion for CTF challenge as danger
- Codex app in-app browser automation fails with "failed to start codex app-server: The system cannot find the path specified. (os error 3)" on Windows
- codex_exec: apply_patch deletes lose file content in rollout (exec starts threads in Limited persistence mode)
- Codex Desktop review pane empty for WSL workspace because Git watcher uses Windows-local paths
- Global AGENTS.md does not appear to be loaded when a repo AGENTS.md is present
- It is faster to wait for the claude code's 5 hour window refresh than build codex from source code
- Please also make performance improvements on Windows