Digest / May 8, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 8, 2026
146 new issues filed ·
40 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (146)
- Browser Use unavailable: node_repl / JavaScript execution tool not exposed despite Browser plugin installed
- codex resume --all omits resumable sessions when first user_message is beyond scan limit
- workspace-write cannot write inside repo subdirectory agents/
- Pet display abnormally
- the new progress panel is only visible with horizontal scrollbar in vscode ext
- Codex Desktop dark mode makes local HTML previews unreadable
- Files does not opening in the codex
- Windows Codex App automations create run/thread but never submit the prompt turn
- this is administrative. real issue beyond requires discussion
- TUI resume main view shows partial transcript when `terminal_resize_reflow_max_rows` is capped
- Codex Desktop search overlay is poorly positioned and cannot be moved
- Codex desktop terminal keyboard paste inserts text twice on Windows
- Hooks no longer run after Codex Desktop update
- codex cli image_gen tool is not available
- Settings entry missing/unresponsive after update on macOS (API key auth); Cmd+, still works
- Compaction/reconnect can drop live orchestration state after stream disconnect
- Show project-level task status when a workspace folder is collapsed
- Codex Desktop: add a read-aloud / replay audio button for assistant responses
- Detect Warp CLI agent sessions as Warp Terminal
- Support FIXME comments in the Codex IDE CodeLens
- Codex Desktop for Windows: workspace dependencies Diagnose/Reinstall buttons are disabled
- Support multi-line status line
- Codex App shows MCP servers enabled, but current session only receives a subset of MCP tools
- Expose custom interaction hooks and APIs for Codex desktop pets
- Windows Codex Desktop: taskkill stdout is parsed as AppServerConnection JSON-RPC/MCP message
- Codex Desktop on Windows cannot resume local chats until app restart
- rollout: session JSONL files are created world-readable (mode 0644) on Unix
- Codex App on macOS crashes with SIGABRT after sending a message; earlier missing rollout path
- Codex desktop: background agent status icons do not refresh until opening the agent
- Show active permissions in the TUI status line
- Bug: Codex TUI overrides terminal cursor style in Neovim :terminal
- Windows PowerShell: Codex should quote paths containing parentheses like Next.js app/(main)
- Privacy/security risk: Codex Computer Use captures wrong macOS Space/window instead of target app
- Windows Codex Desktop: Chrome plugin and Browser Use setup hang; plugin uninstall fails with os error 5
- 0.129.0: /compact fails with unknown service_tier parameter
- Chrome plugin setup can hang when unrelated browser-use sockets exist
- Add compact handoff command with copyable context
- Windows: Chrome plugin shows "Install failed" in Codex UI even though Chrome extension is installed and enabled
- Codex Rules: per-session cache for additionalContext (Claude Code InstructionsLoaded parity)
- upgrade and refund policy
- Recent projects sidebar order does not update when switching active workspace
- Chrome plugin discovery still times out after socket cleanup; extension-host socket does not respond to getInfo
- Improve Codex CLI release management: changelogs, prerelease notes, docs sync, and migration examples
- [Bug] Codex macOS app has broken UI rendering on Intel Macs
- Browser Use setup hangs on Windows when Chrome and IAB pipes are both present
- Windows Codex settings shows Computer Use page, but plugin is unavailable and not bundled
- Codex Desktop Windows WSL mode shows reconnecting despite app-server connected
- Changing edited lines with a slot machine effect
- Allow hook additionalContext to be model-visible but hidden from TUI
- Chrome plugin installed and enabled, but automation calls time out on Windows
- Shift+Enter is not recognized inside tmux because Codex does not enable modifyOtherKeys / Ext 2
- Computer Use Chrome extension is unavailable in Chrome Web Store; is there an offline installer?
- Codex Desktop (MacOS) disconnects during closed-lid mobile hotspot use despite “Prevent sleep while running”
- Chrome/browser-use setupAtlasRuntime can hang when ambient /backend-api/me probe does not complete
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin times out during extension handshake despite extension and native host checks passing
- Improve Codex CLI release transparency for breaking changes, prereleases, docs, and migration guidance
- Codex Desktop Markdown file preview fails to render local images when paths contain spaces
- Usage Limits Decreasing with No Active Tasks
- Chrome Browser Use remote navigation depends on ChatGPT auth and breaks in API-key/custom-provider mode
- Codex Desktop browser-use IAB backend sockets close without getInfo response on macOS
- TUI status line current-dir shows workspace root, not effective command cwd
- Codex Desktop Node REPL does not inherit proxy environment, causing nodeRepl.fetch and Chrome backend setup to hang on macOS
- Automation-specific memory.md appears reset after Codex Desktop update
- Windows bash commands fail with CreateMapping fatal error when sandbox-mode is workspace-write
- Security concern: Codex VS Code extension stores chat history and auth data on shared Remote-SSH Linux account
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin native host connects to different socket than Codex browser-use pipe and times out
- Expose a supported way to disable browser-use ambient network initialization
- Running hooks (Start, Stop, any other) hooks do not show up nor run in actual since today (8th May)
- Win Cannot find Chrome in the Plugins menu
- Dictation in Automation prompt
- New Codex version makes task execution completely opaque
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin tab.goto fails on Windows: failed to start codex app-server (os error 2)
- Windows Codex App integrated terminal duplicates pasted text across PowerShell, pwsh, and Command Prompt
- Messages get stuck in input buffer when "Create a plan?" prompt appears
- Windows Codex App project action leaves PowerShell at continuation prompt after command completes
- TUI shortcut to jump between user prompts in the transcript
- Document results duplicated with missing backslashes
- All historical conversations missing from sidebar after auto-update; local data is intact
- [Bug] VS Code Codex extension cannot run tasks reliably: connector logo overload, plugin manifest warnings, and repeated Cloudflare/telemetry 403 for non-browser clients
- Codex appears to run for tens of minutes, producing nothing while consuming tokens
- Chrome extension stays Disconnected on Windows pt-BR while Codex settings show Connected
- Codex Desktop open thread view does not refresh after another app-server client appends a turn
- False positive safety/cybersecurity framing
- Token usage through the roof because of extra LLM calls
- Enable Codex to promote recurring fixes into reusable approved local playbooks
- state runtime: corrupt `state_5.sqlite` (SQLite "file is not a database") wedges startup with no auto-recovery
- What happened with current context status
- Codex.app using 100%!! of gpu on an mbp m5 merely to render the app
- Full Claude Code Hook Parity (29+)
- Capture Git and PR Metadata in Session Files
- Conversation cache unexpectedly drops to nearly zero during short continuous sessions
- Installed custom skill (aihot) does not appear in available skills in fresh non-project sessions
- Codex Desktop on Windows repeatedly restarts while resuming an old thread and enumerating MCP tools
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin hangs during extension backend bootstrap/openTabs on Windows
- Native RTL support for Arabic in the Windows Codex app (mirrored layout + right‑aligned Arabic messages).
- Project-local model_provider and model_providers ignored after Windows 26.506.x update
- GPT-5.5 model context length is unstable
- Codex Web loses track of commits, state desyncs, stops suggesting to update PR or create new, does not show changes, not able to push
- Codex CLI local Responses provider disconnects when base_url uses localhost; works with 127.0.0.1
- Windows desktop app silently closed/restarted after 26.506 update; no crash artifact recorded
- auto compaction - expose compaction to agent
- Codex Desktop: stable deep link or app-server API to open a local conversation by ID
- UI rendering corruption at certain responsive widths on macOS
- [Windows] Browser plugin fails with "browser-client is not trusted" despite advertised chrome and iab backends
- Desktop app fails to launch when VS Code extension app-server is running — file lock conflict
- codex-linux-sandbox binary absent from @openai/codex npm package; permissions.network_access unusable without danger-full-access
- /goal + superpowers:brainstorming: assistant self-loops, generating ~150 duplicate clarifying questions without user input
- Codex Chrome plugin missing on Windows
- MCP servers from config.toml do not work anymore
- Chrome plugin mention is selectable but chrome@openai-bundled is not exposed in active tools
- Managing commands via bang bang (bang) (bang) instead of just bang
- cyber security risk
- App-server sessions need stable prompt-cache key support for identical startup context
- codex hung
- Status UI mixes current context-window usage with cumulative token totals
- Codex App for linux users!
- Codex CLI appears to lose the configured `model_context_window` after auto-compaction
- Feature request: Cross-device sync for Codex Projects and Chats
- Add TUI option to preserve Vim mode after submitting prompts
- VS Code Remote-SSH: Codex panel intermittently stalls after per-user TMPDIR IPC fix; logs show unsupported workspace_dependencies, unhandled thread-stream-state-changed, and outbound queue full
- Chrome plugin domSnapshot on authenticated Blackboard page crashed Google Chrome profile
- After asking Codex to execute commands in WSL, the prompt became glitched
- Last message disappears when splitting tmux window
- Detached task-worker exits without writing failed status on broker socket disconnect
- Org API key not working
- Local browser should open in remote sessions
- Feature request: native RDP connections for Windows remote servers without SSH
- Windows sandboxed sessions cannot access valid gh keyring auth that works in full-access mode
- Chrome extension can list/claim tabs but page content APIs fail with nodeRepl.fetch request failed
- Codex VSCode extension corrupts git repositories with `fatal: unable to read sha` and `fatal: Unable to create '.../.git/worktrees/foo/index.lock': File exists.`
- Codex Desktop: Browser Use / in-app browser disappears mid-session without user reload
- Consider using lto = "thin" instead of lto = "fat" in Cargo.toml [much less RAM and time to build, ~same performance]
- Prompt injection or tool call coruption
- Repeated ESC[0 q cursor reset in Codex v0.129.0 causes constant flicker under Emacs Eat
- Consider benchmarking/enabling PGO [+BOLT?] builds.
- Add shortcut to jump to top of recalled multi-line composer history
- Slider and window repositioning not working correctly
- 5.3-codex has a profound new inclination to make 10+ searches consecutively. Fix UI/UX to accomadate this.
- Codex App is not working even though I am logged in with Enterprise account
- Make /new reset the CLI view as a fresh session
- Previously-existing sessions with full access require approvals
- Allow Appearance theme colors to apply to the left sidebar background
- Codex desktop new chat composer blur layer covers starter content
- Codex Computer Use fails on macOS 26.4.1 with code-signing invalid helper
- Cross Application Context Sharing
- Mobile-to-Desktop Codex Task Dispatch
Resolved issues (40)
- Editing tool permission can't be auto approved.
- Windows Codex App automations create run/thread but never submit the prompt turn
- Codex macOS app launches but never creates a window; process remains running-active-NotVisible
- Show project-level task status when a workspace folder is collapsed
- this is administrative. real issue beyond requires discussion
- Sorting of sessions under Threads changes to "Last Created" rather than "Last responded" when app is restarted
- Codex App 26.429.61741 causes persistent high CPU usage in renderer and severe UI lag on macOS
- upgrade and refund policy
- CLI issue form has duplicate terminal description key
- Issue forms reference missing labels, so CLI/docs reports lose intended auto-labeling
- Feature request template links to missing Contributing anchor
- Remove stale “research preview” wording from codex exec startup banner
- Improve Codex CLI release management: changelogs, prerelease notes, docs sync, and migration examples
- Grammar/spelling errors in tip
- Browser Use setup hangs on Windows when Chrome and IAB pipes are both present
- Windows Codex settings shows Computer Use page, but plugin is unavailable and not bundled
- Windows Codex App integrated terminal duplicates pasted text across PowerShell, pwsh, and Command Prompt
- Add git worktree status-line item (implementation complete on fork)
- (feat) Resume Screen Selection: Highlight selected row for better visibility
- Security concern: Codex VS Code extension stores chat history and auth data on shared Remote-SSH Linux account
- Show active permissions in the TUI status line
- False positive safety/cybersecurity framing
- Capture Git and PR Metadata in Session Files
- Native RTL support for Arabic in the Windows Codex app (mirrored layout + right‑aligned Arabic messages).
- What happened with current context status
- GPT-5.5 model context length is unstable
- UI rendering corruption at certain responsive widths on macOS
- /goal + superpowers:brainstorming: assistant self-loops, generating ~150 duplicate clarifying questions without user input
- cyber security risk
- Windows Browser Use fails before opening: Node Access Denied / os error 5
- Codex App for linux users!
- Codex CLI appears to lose the configured `model_context_window` after auto-compaction
- macOS app + CLI: `js_repl = true` in config, but no `js_repl` tool in session
- Feature request: native RDP connections for Windows remote servers without SSH
- Prompt injection or tool call coruption
- Consider benchmarking/enabling PGO [+BOLT?] builds.
- Codex auto-compact loses critical task details and causes wrong execution, even on small fixes
- Codex Desktop thread summary panel auto-opens on right-edge hover with no opt-out
- 5.3-codex has a profound new inclination to make 10+ searches consecutively. Fix UI/UX to accomadate this.
- Make /new reset the CLI view as a fresh session