Digest / May 18, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 18, 2026
106 new issues filed ·
36 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (106)
- Start new chat button doesn't switch folder
- Add copy button in About Codex (it's not even selectable text)
- Codex App in WSL reports incorrect diff summary in side panel
- Allow agent to clear context between tasks and continue with previous session ID
- Codex Desktop: shutdown/nonexistent subagents appear to count toward spawn_agent thread limit
- Critical: persistent false-positive cyber-safety flags block normal GSM/DevOps workflows; Trusted Access and support cannot unblock
- Codex responses are fully nested within collapsed <Worked for {N}s> sections
- In-app browser commands stopped working
- AGENTS.md is silently ignored when invalid utf8 characters are present
- No way to minimize "Your Out of Codex Messages" Pop-Up.
- Codex Browser Use hangs during setupAtlasRuntime when nodeRepl.fetch to /backend-api/me stalls
- Allow interactive editing of sandbox permission requests
- Bug: App fails to detect when OpenAI free quota is exhausted
- Windows app freezes around message send and run completion, possibly worse after heavy image generation
- Codex Desktop PDF preview drops Chinese labels for PDFs using unembedded KaiTi/SimHei fonts
- Codex Desktop opening old conversations is blocked by slow resume hydration despite fast thread read
- Request for Rich Interactive Plugin Support and Custom UI Components in Codex
- Codex Desktop on Windows repeatedly launches IntelliJ IDEA from project path click and triggers JetBrains DirectoryLock error
- Codex Cloud Web UI shows an error page when attaching an image file
- Codex Desktop MCP OAuth DCR registers fewer scopes than it later requests
- Clarify gpt-5.3-codex-spark context window metadata
- Expose explicit rollback boundaries or cursors for app-server rewind
- Codex Desktop conversation output vertically jitters while reading results
- Codex Desktop: archived automation threads remain visible in sidebar
- Codex mobile shows macOS host offline/stuck when state_5.sqlite threads table is malformed
- IME composition Enter is not guarded on macOS desktop app
- Couldn't set up admin sandbox
- Codex mobile expands reasoning traces by default; should match desktop collapsed behavior
- WSL CLI cannot share Windows Codex App CODEX_HOME: migration 1 was previously applied but has been modified
- Content failed to load
- Support account-level memory sync across devices
- Desktop compaction repeatedly embeds full image base64 in compacted checkpoints
- Codex stuck at "You're out of Codex messages"
- Make non-managed hook trust reusable across linked worktrees
- CLI: subagents memory leak
- No chrome plugin despite docs content - MacOS
- Codex App compact fails on PDF-heavy thread
- macOS Codex Desktop Settings show "Unable to save" for sandbox/approval config writes due to configVersionConflict
- [Bug] VS Code Codex extension host stays above 300% CPU on macOS
- Codex App main process SIGSEGV after Browser Use IAB sidebar teardown
- "Fork into New Worktree" groups the new thread under the wrong project in the sidebar for remote workspaces
- cdex stopped issuing tokens after upgrade
- Superspowers doest work in big promt
- Android root module development made Codex flagged as cybersecurity
- Codex Desktop pet active animations play once, then fall back to idle
- Codex entered a documentation loop and became my project manager
- Codex Desktop Windows + WSL: apps/plugins path bridge causes 20s first-token delay and image path failures
- Add a cli command like `codex models` to print available models
- Codex TUI should allow scrolling long assistant responses
- Codex Desktop pet becomes oversized and clips the running status bubble
- Security Heuristics Regression: Excessive False Positives in version 5.5 xhigh
- Windows Codex Chrome plugin reinstall does not create native messaging host
- Supports auto-review for CLI exec subcommand
- Our current Codex task appears to have been incorrectly classified as destructive network-attack behavio
- Allow project-level skills to be edited in workspace-write without approval
- Manually selected and copied text contains styling / background color
- Pairing stuck on "Waiting for desktop" after QR scan — all client-side resets exhausted
- Codex Mobile restores stale revoked Mac connection and fails with 403
- Codex Desktop main thread can stay stuck thinking when a sub-agent remains active
- "Keep this Mac awake" doesn't prevent Mac connected to power from sleeping
- MultiAgentV2 subagents can acknowledge, time out, or shut down without executing the spawn task
- ridiculous cost of a simple request re: codex cli options
- Pinned summary does not show when right panel is showing
- Mobile-started remote Codex thread cannot use Chrome plugin: browser-client is not trusted
- Codex Desktop remote control shows duplicate MacBook; mobile can list chats but opening a chat returns 403
- getting `exceeded retry limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests` over and over again, no recent changes to any configs
- Separate command auto-approval from model-visible tool-use guidance
- macOS XProtect false positive: Sparkle Updater.app flagged as malware
- Heartbeat automations ignore custom provider/base_url and call api.openai.com
- Codex Desktop Windows - resume fails because same session path is compared in two Windows path formats.
- Codex App Remote SSH times out on codex --version probe after successful SSH path probe
- Allow stored Codex threads to be associated with a project cwd after planning
- Codex App in-app browser should support multiple visible tabs
- Shell snapshot validation fails on env vars containing single-quoted empty strings (`''`) — broken escape sequence
- Mobile device list exposes Desktop-managed SSH remotes as Codex Desktop devices and can break mobile remote connections
- Codex App fails with invalid schema for function '_search_content'
- Codex Desktop: completed Stop hook details open empty instead of showing hook result
- Windows: codex update leaves npm cleanup warning because codex.exe is locked
- Codex mobile stale Remote Control host cannot be removed after Mac hostname change / codex feedback : no-active-thread-019e3bc9-0329-7672-9add-4731a5fccc86
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin unavailable even though extension and native host are installed
- Allow sub-agent escalation requests to inherit parent auto-approval policy
- Localized desktop UI requires translated slash commands (e.g. /compact fails while /压缩 works)
- Undo failed in latest extension (26.513)
- Status line can show a session ID that does not match the active chat/session
- Title: Codex executed commands and edited files in the wrong pinned workspace/repo
- Codex Desktop on Windows can route Codex-bound text into an unrelated external browser input
- Codex Desktop hangs after sidebar project menu move/unpin action on macOS
- Codex Desktop crashes when switching Markdown file viewer to rich rendered view
- Codex mobile remote access can reuse revoked enrollment and connect to the wrong Mac
- /goal long-running loop produces 480 KB single log lines via chain-nested turn{} tracing spans (34 GB log in one day)
- After enabling Plan Mode, clicking “Implement Plan” does not execute the plan and remains stuck in Plan Mode
- Agent sometimes incorporates private chat context into standalone outputs
- Codex App fails to render sessions containing structured output
- Plugin + Skills page has a rendering issue
- Add manual bookmarks for important sections within a thread
- Remote mobile-started and CLI-started threads are not listed in the mobile app for resume
- Goals not available in v0.131.0
- VS Code - cannot open thread
- Granular approval policy prompts model to use sandbox_permissions that runtime rejects unless OnRequest
- Codex mobile remote host remains stuck offline after removing connection, no way to remove or re-pair stale device
- Request review path for AI goal replacement guidance
- CLI binary releases not notarized — blocks Homebrew Cask distribution
- v0.131 regression: codex starts in the wrong folder
- Codex App heartbeat RRULE with multiple BYHOUR/BYMINUTE occurrences only runs first daily occurrence, then advances next_run_at to next day
- v0.131 regression: weird text.
- Codex session abruptly closed with context window ran out of room error
Resolved issues (36)
- Use git worktrees to achieve parallel agents
- No file links on Unstaged screen
- Codex MCP apps (e.g., Sharepoint) do not autocomplete in the Codex App when typing, but are available
- Sign in with ChatGPT doesn't stick
- Previous response visually overwritten by next turn
- Skills take forever to load
- Performance improvements in 26.506.20924 have not helped much with WSL mode
- Codex App fails to register that it's loading with the Windows system
- Codex Desktop: shutdown/nonexistent subagents appear to count toward spawn_agent thread limit
- Critical: persistent false-positive cyber-safety flags block normal GSM/DevOps workflows; Trusted Access and support cannot unblock
- Pet stops displaying current messages when started new session
- /goal does not actually complete the goal when doing review loops
- Figma Make resource links returned by get_design_context cannot be read in Codex App
- Couldn't set up admin sandbox
- cdex stopped issuing tokens after upgrade
- Android root module development made Codex flagged as cybersecurity
- Windows: Chrome plugin can open Chrome/page but fails to establish usable browser-control session
- Mobile re-authorization prompt not showing after revoking device access
- Show remaining usage limit in Codex app chat
- Our current Codex task appears to have been incorrectly classified as destructive network-attack behavio
- Fast mode activates on its own
- codex exec resume should support --output-schema
- CLI TUI remains visually corrupted after stream disconnect, while resumed session renders normally
- CLI: /status shows ChatGPT usage link for non-OpenAI providers (e.g. Bedrock)
- Localized desktop UI requires translated slash commands (e.g. /compact fails while /压缩 works)
- Chrome extension can list/claim tabs but page content APIs fail with nodeRepl.fetch request failed
- `apply_patch` fails on Windows after first write in sandbox-owned directory in VS Code Extension
- Support dynamic apiKeyHelper field for dynamic API key support
- Title: Codex executed commands and edited files in the wrong pinned workspace/repo
- TUI: resolve_elicitation routed to wrong thread_id on multi-session race condition
- TUI: status-blind `McpToolCall` arm in `handle_thread_item` routes `InProgress` items to the "completed" handler, surfacing spurious "MCP tool call completed without a result"
- Agent sometimes incorporates private chat context into standalone outputs
- Goals not available in v0.131.0
- Codex Desktop: Branch Details Blocking Stop & Send Buttons
- Codex mobile remote host remains stuck offline after removing connection, no way to remove or re-pair stale device
- Request review path for AI goal replacement guidance