Digest / May 1, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 1, 2026
110 new issues filed ·
32 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (110)
- Document the /goal CLI command and Goals lifecycle in slash-command docs
- Automate Codex with Codex
- Desktop Preferences can get stuck showing "unable to save" after configVersionConflict on sequential config writes
- Codex Desktop MCP panel shows only global/plugin servers while repo-scoped MCP servers are active and usable
- When the codex app in linux
- spawn_agent creates child thread but initial task is treated as context
- Codex Desktop freezes when opening mini/popout windows; image-heavy histories are much worse than long text-heavy sessions
- Codex client experience optimization
- Codex Desktop sluggish after today's update to 26.429.20946
- codex-cli 0.128.0 on WSL/Linux reports "Unrecognized command '/goal'" although v0.128.0 release notes mention /goal
- I am paying for the and you are restricking me until 5 days! What is going on!!!!!!!!!!
- Codex Desktop plugin/skills page is covered by a white overlay on Intel macOS 26.2
- Invalid request error.
- Codex App: View > Toggle File Tree is enabled but does not reliably reveal the file tree
- Frequent 429 Rate Limit errors when using Codex with Spec-kit for automated development.
- Support for Computer Use and Dictation in Vietnam
- Shift + Enter newline ignored in Zed integrated terminal
- macOS: Screenshot freeze/stuck after enabling Codex Computer Use screen/audio recording permissions
- GPT-5.5 available in Codex CLI but missing in Codex Desktop App (same account)
- Heavy I/O activity from idle `codex` processes.
- Codex Windows App keeps spawning about 1000 git command per minute NON STOP
- Codex keeping starting vite dev server "for me to preview"
- Branch detail panel makes it impossible to use scrollbar
- Win: After upgrading Codex, I'm getting "windows sandbox: runner error: CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 1920"
- Voice transcription stays stuck after setup until toggled off and on again
- Brew package shows new update but update does not work
- Codex Mac app high memory usage regression on macOS after update (26.422.62136)
- tool_search aborts with 'unsupported payload' when using non-native API endpoints (Ollama/Bifrost)
- Codex App on Windows uses PowerShell on startup and fails to start.
- Browser Use broken after today update: no node_repl/js or no Codex IAB backend discovered
- Regression: Shift+Enter / Alt+Enter no longer insert newline in TUI prompt
- VS Code UI fails to reopen valid sessions that are resumable via CLI
- Removing the need for compactions, and better token usage
- Usage UI should show special Codex rate-limit reset events and affected quota intervals
- VS Code extension webview goes blank when chatgpt.localeOverride value is not valid
- Improving code quality
- TUI panics in wrapping.rs:52 (byte index near u64::MAX) on bracketed-paste injection over stdin
- VS Code Codex extension completely broken!!
- plugin disppeared + constantly disconnecting + high use of energy = > heat => fans - all after most recent update
- Regression: bwrap: Unknown option --perms
- `/goal` slash command does not work in 0.128.0
- Regression: Codex Desktop copy button no longer stays sticky in long code blocks
- Codex Desktop: terminal toolbar icon appears active when no terminal is open
- Provide a first-class standalone installer for native Codex binaries
- Plan Mode: allow choosing a different model before implementing a plan
- Add winget install instructions
- Setting a goal is not working with Failed to set thread goal: thread/goal/set failed in TUI
- Codex VS Code WSL app-server stuck at 70–90% CPU with outbound queue is full
- TUI freezes during idle long wait while session continues and completes
- Expose hook capabilities and a session-exit hook for integrations
- MCP schema conversion collapses array items.oneOf(object) to string[]
- Need way to hot-load local MCP changes into existing Codex thread
- Shift+Enter no longer inserts a new line on macOS in Codex 0.128.0
- Codex Desktop macOS project sidebar hides unarchived local threads even though SQLite/session files are intact
- Sources popover disables app buttons and reappears repeatedly
- Background terminal commands hang indefinitely in Codex sandbox.
- macOS startup is very slow when `sandbox_workspace_write.writable_roots` contains multiple missing paths
- Browser Use hardcodes chatgpt.com site_status policy endpoint and breaks/leaks metadata with custom model providers
- Update removes existing Commit Instructions
- Built-in image generation does not appear to emit PreToolUse hooks
- Codex App Remote SSH fails on macOS remote because bootstrap uses GNU-style chmod --
- Weekly Limit did not reset
- Codex Desktop: Sources / Web search hover popover blocks the UI
- Codex App blocks use of Local / Private Plugin Marketplaces for API Key users
- Codex desktop app remote_connections fails on Oracle Linux 8
- VS Code extension silently fails to open older local sessions
- Add /copy N support
- Windows Desktop: heartbeat/manual automation run cannot resume thread because `C:\...` and `\\?\C:\...` session paths are treated as different
- Codex App briefly shows bundled system skills, then hides them after initialization
- Codex doesn't understand Ctrl+Shift+Backspace and Ctrl+arrow in Ghostty
- Cyber flagging is out of control - Not cyber registering
- Unable to link Outlook personal accounts
- Codex Desktop: Intelligence dropdown gets stuck per workspace before first message
- In-session `/profile` command for Codex CLI
- SSH remote: app-server bootstrap silently fails on macOS-to-macOS, leaving repeated WebSocket 1006 errors
- Codex skill discovery silently misses global skill when entry file is SKILL.MD
- Leak of internal reasoning and premature plan interruption in Codex output
- Windows: codex fails silently without Visual C++ Redistributable installed
- Expose external or detachable browser support for Browser Use
- Forking conversations doesn't exist anymore in the past 6-7 versions of the mac desktop app
- Add full text selection support to the CLI composer
- Starlog published a deep-dive on openai/codex
- Codex Desktop: Add conversation turn navigator with jump-to-response support
- Resolution failure for flattened MCP tool names from OpenAI-compatible proxies
- Google Drive Sheets connector fails with AttributeError: GoogleSheetsConnector._connector missing
- Plan mode makes active /goal look stuck because continuation is suppressed silently
- Codex Desktop: Branch Details Blocking Stop & Send Buttons
- Windows Codex app: Browser plugin can attach to tab, but DOM/screenshot APIs fail because codex app-server cannot start
- Windows app Settings crashes when external agent import panel renders (`path.win32` is null)
- Codex Desktop dictation fails in API-key auth mode because /backend-api/transcribe rejects API keys
- Code-comment block not rendering properly
- mcp-search fails after clean reinstall on Windows: ChatGPT backend plugin/connectors requests return Cloudflare 403, Settings UI also breaks
- Expose root/subagent metadata in hook payloads
- fix(browser): Browser Use cannot connect to IAB from Node REPL on macOS
- Codex Desktop pet overlay appears to increase idle GPU/renderer CPU on macOS
- Computer Use crashes SkyComputerUseService when inspecting Outlook on macOS
- Codex Desktop session replay is poisoned after compaction emits malformed tool_search_call arguments
- Auto Open/Update PR on web agent run
- Codex Settings page crashing
- Cybersecurity risk, false detections
- Codex Windows App breaks input device drivers
- Interrupted resume can render internal rollout_summary/raw_memory JSON as assistant output
- Alt+Enter does not insert a newline in the terminal
- TUI: support zsh-style Ctrl+U as a configurable line-kill command
- Solve the issue so the model can solve hackthebox machines challenges and CTF challenges without getting flaged as " possible cybersecurity risk"
- Codex desktop renders identical-looking file cards when multiple edited files share a basename (e.g. README.md)
- ⚠ Skipped loading 1 skill(s) due to invalid SKILL.md files.
- Codex App skill install spinner finishes, but the skill is not added on Windows
- pet/avatar overlay feature gate blocked
- Codex Desktop shows Readwise MCP/plugin as available when OAuth does not complete and no tools are exposed
Resolved issues (32)
- Codex App Native Linux Release - x64
- When the codex app in linux
- Codex client experience optimization
- codex-cli 0.128.0 on WSL/Linux reports "Unrecognized command '/goal'" although v0.128.0 release notes mention /goal
- I am paying for the and you are restricking me until 5 days! What is going on!!!!!!!!!!
- Codex Desktop plugin/skills page is covered by a white overlay on Intel macOS 26.2
- GPT-5.5 available in Codex CLI but missing in Codex Desktop App (same account)
- Codex keeping starting vite dev server "for me to preview"
- spawn_agent creates child thread but initial task is treated as context
- Codex App code/text previews in threads do not wrap long lines, making them unreadable without horizontal scrolling
- gpt-5.5 shown in Codex, but rejected for ChatGPT Plus account with 400 unsupported-model error
- Expose hook capabilities and a session-exit hook for integrations
- Add support for Azure DefaultAzureCredential authentication when using codex CLI with Azure Hosted Models
- Codex Desktop: clicking a file reference opens the right-side code pane but does not jump to the referenced line
- Codex desktop app remote_connections fails on Oracle Linux 8
- Frequent 429 Rate Limit errors when using Codex with Spec-kit for automated development.
- Improving code quality
- Shift + Enter newline ignored in Zed integrated terminal
- Regression: Shift+Enter / Alt+Enter no longer insert newline in TUI prompt
- VS Code Codex extension completely broken!!
- Windows Desktop: heartbeat/manual automation run cannot resume thread because `C:\...` and `\\?\C:\...` session paths are treated as different
- Shift+Enter no longer inserts a new line on macOS in Codex 0.128.0
- `/goal` slash command does not work in 0.128.0
- Cyber flagging is out of control - Not cyber registering
- Regression: Alt+Enter no longer inserts newline in VS Code WSL terminal
- Codex Desktop: Intelligence dropdown gets stuck per workspace before first message
- Leak of internal reasoning and premature plan interruption in Codex output
- Codex Desktop session replay is poisoned after compaction emits malformed tool_search_call arguments
- Cybersecurity risk, false detections
- Codex 10x usage promotion reports incorrect quota available
- Alt+Enter does not insert a newline in the terminal
- Solve the issue so the model can solve hackthebox machines challenges and CTF challenges without getting flaged as " possible cybersecurity risk"