Digest / May 5, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 5, 2026
99 new issues filed ·
37 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (99)
- changing git branch prefix broken
- false positives blocking work with 5.5 model
- Codex CLI - Shift + Enter Not Working
- Bug Report — Codex runtime bundle not provisioned (bundleVersion=null)
- apply_patch sandbox retry can request duplicate approval and hang app-server turns
- Browser Use actions fail with "Codex auth token is unavailable" in API-key mode
- Codex Desktop sidebar loses chat history when thread titles contain large transcript chunks
- Codex CLI tends to add and remove blank lines when patching files
- /goal auto-runs after `codex resume` without user confirmation
- Codex Mac App: /goal shows “No commands” and is not usable from slash command autocomplete
- Codex Desktop silently hides project conversations outside the global recent-50 window
- Windows Codex app dictation records audio but silently produces no transcript
- Allow configuring semantic TUI colors beyond syntax highlighting
- Codex Mac App: action log details sometimes fail to expand even when the chevron is open
- Codex App in-app browser shows wrong gallery item for URL query parameter
- Codex desktop app renders Plugins and Skills pages with a full-page blank overlay on macOS Intel
- Codex Desktop becomes unusable on long active threads due to app-server/renderer memory and TRACE log churn
- Codex App intermittently ignores mouse clicks after enabling pets
- Conversation pane does not support reliable keyboard scrolling
- Plugin cache refresh can keep stale bundled/local plugin contents when source changes without a version bump
- 我被这个UI问题困扰一个月了，谁能帮我解决它，我被搜索框挡住了，什么插件也看不到。我是Intel芯片的MacOS
- Codex Desktop thread summary panel auto-opens on right-edge hover with no opt-out
- Allow remaining weekly usage before reset when 5-hour limit is active
- Browser Use cannot inspect, screenshot, or click visible cross-origin iframe content in Codex app
- Feature request: allow Browser use to use an external/system browser profile
- Codex Desktop WSL mode starts Windows app-server and leaves thread in PowerShell
- Deprecation notice links to malformed hooks docs URL (`/codex/hooks.` returns 404)
- False-positive cybersecurity risk verification triggered in Codex with GPT-5.5
- Show MCP server progress reporting
- Thread metadata can store full first user message as title, causing huge active titles
- Improve Codex App image viewer with arrow-key navigation and reliable Copy Image
- Make body area responsive and extendable
- Add a node-based workflow surface for Imagen in Codex App
- Issue forms reference missing labels, so CLI/docs reports lose intended auto-labeling
- fast mode auto turn off
- Hooks stop firing after rate-limit stops or live hooks.json edits
- Adding credits still show "You're out of codex messages" popup above the chat
- UI bug user cannot click the send button
- Multiline input no longer works in Codex CLI inside WebStorm Terminal.
- Support for different file encodings and windows style line endings in apply_patch internal function and codex.exe command line apply patch
- Codex new chat starts in latest project directory instead of chats
- Feature request: official Telegram integration/plugin for Codex CLI
- Codex Desktop reconnect loop on new/restarted conversations due to turn/started for unknown conversation
- ``/side`` while ``working`` and then ``esc``aping back to the main thread breaks the ``working``-timer
- Sidebar issue
- Sidebar transparency gone
- /goal does not actually complete the goal when doing review loops
- Codex Desktop on Windows refreshes app-server-updated threads only after window focus returns
- Codex Web: "Failed to create task" when starting a new cloud task
- Support Node 24 (LTS)
- Codex app: support local repo-scoped AGENTS instructions for app-created worktrees
- `Tool call was cancelled because of safety risks`: safety layer hallucinates reasons why a tool call is unsafe and blocks it without manual approval
- Phone verification OTP not received (Pakistan) – unable to log in
- Codex Desktop shows both custom and native browser tooltips on some browser navigation buttons
- Linux sandbox (bubblewrap) uses non-unique temp registry path, breaking multi-user /tmp
- Codex Desktop pet/avatar floating overlay is clipped to the top-left quarter
- Multiple start-as user support for windows
- Data loss: resumed-thread errors due missing rollout JSONL files (state still has threads, files gone)
- Allow renaming Codex sessions in VSCode Extension
- attempting to run a compact task while running a goal and not having enough 5hr usage left loses the "Working" indicator after 5hr reset & sucessful compact
- macOS 15.6 arm64: codex CLI installs via npm but native binary fails to execute (`spawn Unknown system error -88`)
- Computer Use: SkyComputerUseClient SIGKILL'd (Code Signature Invalid) when codex CLI is launched outside Codex.app process tree (e.g. via ACP adapter)
- Scope CLI prompt recall history to Codex conversation/session
- 404 Error
- While developing an IM bot using GPT-5.5 Codex, I encountered a false positive GPT cyber policy violation.
- windows sandbox: spawn setup refresh, fails several times on a new session or after /clear, and then it works
- Multiple sub-agents + typing randomly breaks TUI
- add GPT-5.4 nano to Codex
- Thread navigation/loading slows from unbounded metadata and eager large-history hydration
- See agent terminal
- shift+enter no longer inserting new line into prompt on 0.128.0
- False positive cybersecurity risk when fuzz testing my own library
- Weekly usage % jumps 18pp when plan_type flips pro -> prolite despite only 26M tokens
- VS Code Codex extension DNS failures: Could not resolve any host name
- /review invokes GitHub MCP tools despite explicit local-only restriction
- Weekly Limit Increased to 100% Without Any Usage
- Codex Cloud failing to create PR across multiple repos (patch works locally)
- Codex Desktop on macOS cannot trigger Calendar/Reminders TCC prompts for EventKit CLIs
- Keep GPT-5.4-class long-context Codex models available for operational/GitOps workflows
- Codex pet overlay is cropped inside its own floating container
- Codex App freezes / becomes Not Responding when opening image-heavy projects with many generated images
- Codex CLI/native runtime grows to unbounded size and is killed by Linux cgroup OOM even during short implementation sessions
- add keyboard shortcut to open the default third party editor
- Usage popup even after adding credits
- codex-cli stucks on every prompt
- VS Code plugin no longer shows diff per file module
- VS Code Codex history intermittently hides existing local chats
- Interrupted video transcription leaves generated transcript file locked by Python on Windows
- In-app browser inspection is blocked when node_repl requires Node >= 22.22.0 but desktop environment resolves Node 18
- Codex dependencies show as not installed and reinstall fails from Settings on Windows
- Getting flagged as cybersecurity threat erroneously
- Adding CLI Option to hide tool activity
- /copy only copies the latest assistant step instead of the full multi-step response
- Add Talk Mode / Discussion Mode to Codex
- user input when using /goal should be printed even if there's error
- "This chat was flagged for possible cybersecurity risk"
- can't run on ARM64
- Compacted replacement_history retains active startup/context packets, duplicating AGENTS/developer/memory/skills context
- CLI issue form has duplicate terminal description key
Resolved issues (37)
- false positives blocking work with 5.5 model
- Codex CLI - Shift + Enter Not Working
- /goal auto-runs after `codex resume` without user confirmation
- New CLI bwrap sandbox fails before shell: RTM_NEWADDR loopback Operation not permitted
- Linux sandbox fails on Ubuntu with AppArmor userns restrictions: bwrap loopback RTM_NEWADDR EPERM
- Codex Mac App: /goal shows “No commands” and is not usable from slash command autocomplete
- 'Full Access' permissions broken -- network calls are still sandboxed
- /approvals - Full Access does not work
- Codex not responding and cannot force quit
- 我被这个UI问题困扰一个月了，谁能帮我解决它，我被搜索框挡住了，什么插件也看不到。我是Intel芯片的MacOS
- False-positive cybersecurity risk verification triggered in Codex with GPT-5.5
- Deprecation notice links to malformed hooks docs URL (`/codex/hooks.` returns 404)
- Adding credits still show "You're out of codex messages" popup above the chat
- ``/side`` while ``working`` and then ``esc``aping back to the main thread breaks the ``working``-timer
- Codex Desktop pet/avatar floating overlay is clipped to the top-left quarter
- Initial new-chat conversation ignores selected model and falls back to GPT-5.5
- mcp-search fails after clean reinstall on Windows: ChatGPT backend plugin/connectors requests return Cloudflare 403, Settings UI also breaks
- Blank GUI window after update on macOS Tahoe (Apple Silicon) while CLI works normally
- /copy does not work inside tmux
- shift+enter no longer inserting new line into prompt on 0.128.0
- Multiline input no longer works in Codex CLI inside WebStorm Terminal.
- While developing an IM bot using GPT-5.5 Codex, I encountered a false positive GPT cyber policy violation.
- False positive cybersecurity risk when fuzz testing my own library
- windows sandbox: spawn setup refresh, fails several times on a new session or after /clear, and then it works
- TUI large paste placeholder number increments after Ctrl+C clears draft
- codex fork --last ignores default cwd filtering and can fork a session from another project
- codex cli startup hangs 20-30s on Linux systems where bwrap bind-mounting / is slow (NFS, autofs)
- See agent terminal
- Weekly Limit Increased to 100% Without Any Usage
- Codex CLI/native runtime grows to unbounded size and is killed by Linux cgroup OOM even during short implementation sessions
- Linux sandbox panics when project `.codex` is a symlink into writable workspace.
- Linux sandbox (bubblewrap) uses non-unique temp registry path, breaking multi-user /tmp
- Interrupted video transcription leaves generated transcript file locked by Python on Windows
- Getting flagged as cybersecurity threat erroneously
- Thread metadata can store full first user message as title, causing huge active titles
- /copy only copies the latest assistant step instead of the full multi-step response
- user input when using /goal should be printed even if there's error