Digest / May 9, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 9, 2026
101 new issues filed ·
24 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (101)
- TUI Vim mode: allow starting in Insert mode by default
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin connection times out despite extension and native host checks passing
- Windows Codex App: Chrome computer control intermittently times out after creating Chrome task group
- Codex Outputs jumbled output, and that contagiously errors ChatGPT (web)
- Feature request: mission-entropy detection and bounded sub-agent delegation
- UI rendering bug where a large dark translucent overlay/shadow is blocking the Codex plugins page
- Chrome plugin missing from Codex Plugin Directory
- VS Code Codex: central editor panel opens blank on Windows because custom URI route uses fsPath
- Add an official setting to resize the Codex desktop pet/avatar overlay
- Codex Desktop plugin marketplace layout is horizontally clipped on Intel Mac unless --force-device-scale-factor=1 is used
- Codex Desktop: @Chrome extension is Connected but browser tasks fall back to chrome-devtools isolated profile on Windows
- workspace-write + network_access=true lets git push update remote before failing local tracking-ref update
- Python SDK ServiceTier enum missing "priority" — deserialization fails with Codex CLI 0.129.0
- Windows self-update reports success but npm cleanup fails with EPERM unlinking codex.exe
- Explicit @chrome mention routes to IAB instead of Chrome extension backend
- Setting unable to show
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin times out at setupAtlasRuntime on Windows despite extension/native host checks passing
- Chrome plugin hangs during backend setup despite extension and native host running
- Windows desktop app: every new thread shows "Reconnecting... timeout waiting for child process to exit" during startup websocket prewarm
- Codex Desktop starts configured MCP server successfully, but does not expose its tools to the model
- Codex Desktop App project display name can diverge from filesystem path, causing unrecoverable “Current working directory missing”
- PR Feedback findings not being displayed
- Windows Desktop: memory_stage1 jobs time out, leaving global memory empty
- CODEX conflates and regresses Quantum innovations like GlyphOS (suspect must be a key word pattern look-up used by openai to target innovative products from becoming relased)
- Attach existing remote Codex CLI sessions to Codex App projects
- Got the classic “model behavior → not our CLI bug” brush-off from OpenAI when replying to Fix the dumbing down issues - water down bleeding-edge/novel work (quantum OS concepts) !!!
- Proposal: add explicit `thread/unload` app-server RPC
- Chrome plugin connection times out despite extension showing Connected
- Codex Desktop dictation uses ASCII commas instead of Chinese full-width punctuation for Chinese speech
- TUI: resolve_elicitation routed to wrong thread_id on multi-session race condition
- Codex updater should handle root-owned npm global installs and multiple install targets more explicitly
- app-server thread/resume rejects equivalent symlinked rollout paths as stale
- Codex Windows App/CLI receives Cloudflare challenge HTML from discovery endpoints; disabling apps/plugins/tool_suggest fixes it
- Chrome plugin trusted bridge unavailable after macOS sleep/wake and Codex restart
- [[hooks.state]] is breaking config.toml
- Codex Desktop pets do not animate when macOS ReduceMotionEnabled is set
- MCP Streamable HTTP handshake fails with n8n MCP server after initialize
- An error occurred while launching Codex app on Windows.
- Support project-level skills discovery from repository workspace
- Chrome plugin backend times out even though extension native host reports connected
- **Feature negotiation mismatch in 26.506.31421 — JS bundle requests features Rust app-server doesn't support, triggers extension host termination
- Windows: `browser-use@openai-bundled` times out and never starts the in-app browser (`iab`), while `@chrome` can connect
- The user dialog for permission lists a long path to PowerShell on Windows first, hiding away the actual command
- [Windows/WSL] Reconnecting loop: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- VS Code extension sandbox cannot find system bwrap even though /usr/bin/bwrap is on PATH
- Windows: Codex Chrome plugin shows "connected" in the UI, but browser automation cannot actually connect
- Windows VPS: workspace dependencies remain “Not installed”; .sandbox-bin stays empty after reinstall
- Iranian phone numbers are not supported for Codex login
- Progress / Artifacts panel is awkwardly positioned in VS Code chat UI
- Train model to refactor in better order
- Windows: DEP0190 deprecation warning in stderr causes Stop hook to block every turn (codex@1.0.4)
- Branch changes sidebar reports line diff now agains origin/remote, no longer against current worktree
- # Bug Report: Skills Page Layout Breaks When Zoomed In
- Add Translate action for selected text in Codex Desktop
- Codex Desktop delays returning completed parallel shell_command results when mixed with an escalated gh call on Windows
- Codex Desktop dictation fails with "No active organization found"
- Automatic approval review fails on Microsoft Foundry/Azure OpenAI because codex-auto-review is not deployable
- I don't have the chrome plugin in my Codex on Windows
- PageUp/PageDown in focused composer horizontally shifts and breaks VS Code chat webview layout
- Codex Desktop App hangs indefinitely on “Automatically compacting context” even for no-op prompt
- Allow /init to update existing AGENTS.md
- Chronicle background summary process deletes ~/.codex/skills/.system
- Problems reading and interpreting Electronics Datasheets
- Chrome plugin missing from Codex Plugin Directory on macOS due to stale bundled marketplace cache
- CLI worker silent death after parallel-command burst (announce → mkdir → probe → exit) on Linux/WSL2 — `Turn completed` event never fires
- CJK/Korean text appears too heavy in Codex desktop app dark theme
- Minor: The weekly rate limit in the Codex App (macOS) should show the reset time too along with the date
- Feature Request: Execution Replay / Debug Replay Mode
- browser-use in-app browser hangs during initialization: setupAtlasRuntime({ globals: globalThis }) consistently times out in node_repl
- GPT-5.5 / Codex quality degraded in the last 2 days, affecting paid renewal decision
- Regression: newline still broken in Zed on Windows in 0.130.0
- Improve transcript overlay rebuild performance to scale better with session length
- The desktop pet/avatar body displays correctly after toggling macOS display scaling, but the speech bubble / dialog overlay is still positioned incorrectly or clipped.
- Large active session causes global freezes with no UI attribution
- Codex in Xcode doesn't allow model selection
- Desktop: local repo auto compaction at 0% usage hard-stops and leaves local repo/worktree unstable
- `app-server` ignores `[features].image_generation = false` and `--disable image_generation` (only `exec` honors them)
- 019e0dae-c055-7fc0-a254-c4dcded31252
- Codex Desktop Windows: Chrome plugin connects but navigation blocked because thread networkAccess persists as false
- Windows: codex app-server leaks taskkill stdout into its own stdout (corrupts JSONL on non-English locales)
- Codex CLI should set a persistent distinctive terminal title marker
- Codex Windows app plugins/marketplace UI inconsistency
- Codex Desktop recents timestamp appears to use thread creation time instead of last active time
- Add automatic workflow injection layer
- Windows: Codex 5.3 path appears to disrupt Windows Terminal settings and active sessions
- False positive cyber security flag
- False "Out of Codex messages" rate limit banner when using API credits on macOS
- Codex Desktop open → 5-hour usage decreases after reset despite no active task, no CLI, and no credit-history event.
- Change CLI update message presentation to reduce confusion
- Make gpt5.5 Instant available on codex
- App-level Codex Assistant for Help, Worktree State, and Operational Explanation - AKA the Shoemakers Children Shoes Never get done
- Chrome plugin Node REPL bootstrap fails from WSL due to Windows path/trust mismatch
- Charged for credits never received
- Codex app should live-refresh CLI-created local sessions
- Auto-review approvals should support optional human fallback on deny/abort
- Codex Automations Cannot Resolve DNS / Access Network While Interactive Sessions Work
- OpenBSD Sandbox Support
- Codex CLI still renders at stale terminal size after resize
- Cant use local openweights model through ollama + litellm in codex-cli
- WSL remote regression: newer versions hang remote extension host, older versions break Codex send with TypeError: n is not iterable
- Codex sandbox_permissions approval doesn't get surfaced through app-server
Resolved issues (24)
- Cross Application Context Sharing
- Codex Outputs jumbled output, and that contagiously errors ChatGPT (web)
- 0.129.0: /compact fails with unknown service_tier parameter
- All historical conversations missing from sidebar after auto-update; local data is intact
- Let Agents Multitask
- 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
- TUI status line current-dir shows workspace root, not effective command cwd
- Codex Desktop starts configured MCP server successfully, but does not expose its tools to the model
- CODEX conflates and regresses Quantum innovations like GlyphOS (suspect must be a key word pattern look-up used by openai to target innovative products from becoming relased)
- Got the classic “model behavior → not our CLI bug” brush-off from OpenAI when replying to Fix the dumbing down issues - water down bleeding-edge/novel work (quantum OS concepts) !!!
- Codex Desktop: Browser Use / in-app browser disappears mid-session without user reload
- Running hooks (Start, Stop, any other) hooks do not show up nor run in actual since today (8th May)
- [[hooks.state]] is breaking config.toml
- Unable to click the scroll bar. Forced to use the mouse wheel instead.
- Feature Request: Execution Replay / Debug Replay Mode
- GPT-5.5 / Codex quality degraded in the last 2 days, affecting paid renewal decision
- Codex in Xcode doesn't allow model selection
- 019e0dae-c055-7fc0-a254-c4dcded31252
- Add automatic workflow injection layer
- False positive cyber security flag
- False "Out of Codex messages" rate limit banner when using API credits on macOS
- Output width remains truncated after resizing Codex CLI window back to full size
- Change CLI update message presentation to reduce confusion
- TUI freeze during agent fan-out