Digest / May 22, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 22, 2026
140 new issues filed ·
35 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (140)
- cybersecurity risk
- Codex Desktop: context usage indicator disappeared from chat window
- CLI feedback thread upload: 019e419e-8f64-7bd0-a026-cad7c2438682
- Windows Codex App: in-app browser visibility.set(true) succeeds but visibility.get() remains false
- 0.133.0 Windows sandbox regression: read-only mode rejects basic git/PowerShell inspection that 0.130.0 allowed
- Chat Tree lost all my chats
- Codex prompt submission can trigger local network latency spikes and packet loss on macOS
- Git branch names fail to display in the statusline with these settings.
- [Codex App] Context usage is hidden behind slash commands instead of visible in the chat toolbar
- [Codex App] Fast Push is harder to use after moving into the floating Environment control
- Codex app: subagent close request triggers "agent loop died unexpectedly" and repeated message submit failures
- Codex application has broken dll loading somewhere (regression)
- Desktop app `functions.exec_command` honors custom file permissions but not `allow_local_binding`
- Codex App: slash command and skill picker selections in side chat do not apply until side chat is closed
- Remote control stays offline after switching Business accounts; enrollment fails with MFA required
- Codex App 26.519: /goal slash command is missing even though Goal mode is GA
- Codex Desktop 26.519.22136: local project conversation history missing after update, threads still exist in state_5.sqlite
- Codex App for Windows Keeps Freezing and says Not Responding Whenver I perform an action after another action
- Meta: /goal failures hide DB/schema/process mismatch after goal storage changes
- How did the context display end up in the / popup?
- openai codex issues language Chinese
- Skill disable UI is path-scoped but appears name-scoped; duplicate global/project skills remain active
- Google Plugins not working
- cybersecurity risk
- Codex Desktop delete leaves local session index, logs, and desktop-state residues
- Appshot fails after ScreenCapture permission: SkyComputerUseService crashes with EXC_BAD_ACCESS on macOS 15.0
- Tighten `hookSpecificOutput.hookEventName` schemas to the matching hook event
- Codex App shows usage limit reached despite remaining 5-hour and weekly quota
- Support true read-only mode for Gmail and Calendar connectors
- Project hooks in linked worktrees appear to be loaded from the primary checkout but executed from the linked worktree cwd
- Codex App: support keyboard accelerators for session action menus
- Codex app is much slower after latest update: Fast mode feels like Standard, with slow thinking/searching/compaction
- Codex Desktop sidebar chat history disappears and latest update does not restore hidden chats
- Codex Desktop: cannot enable Computer Use or Mobile Remote on macOS
- remote-control should recover from a corrupt logs_2.sqlite instead of failing readiness
- Regression: long resumed conversations fail remote compact with context_length_exceeded on 0.132.0+
- No completion notification for remote SSH Projects in Codex Desktop
- Codex Desktop App slash command popup renders incorrectly when typing "/"
- on mac after codex update： Codex cannot access its local database.
- Codex Desktop automations overwrite custom provider model IDs after view/edit
- Codex Desktop runtime agent panel is mispositioned on external monitor
- Appshots hotkey registers but never fires on macOS 26.5
- Codex crashes on launch with HEAP_CORRUPTION when Windows Store update is detected but cannot be downloaded
- Change model before implementing a plan
- Locked Computer Use authorization plug-in is registered but rejected by macOS SecurityAgentHelper Library Validation
- Codex app automatic context compaction fails with context_length_exceeded
- Regression: context usage percentage is missing from Codex input composer
- codex exec resume should support promptless follow mode for active goals
- Codex Desktop Browser Use ignores persisted origin/upload approvals when nodeRepl.config is unavailable
- Do OpenAI engineers use browsers with the tab close buttons on the left?
- "Run now" does not work with automation
- [iOS] Plan CTA overlays on top other CTAs and does nothing
- can't open codex cli!
- Missing create branch option in iOS Codex UI
- Codex app UI issue: options below the input box are obscured
- Remote control can get stuck after idle or network changes with 409 Conflict until re-enrollment
- VS Code integrated terminal over SSH leaks kitty keyboard protocol sequences after exiting Codex (e.g. 9;1:3u)
- Codex desktop app renders white blocks / clipped UI on Intel MacBook Pro 2019 Retina display
- Codex App no longer shows context window percentage near send button
- Codex App no longer shows context window percentage near send button
- Codex App fails to launch after update on macOS: state runtime sqlite (state_5.sqlite) "database disk image is malformed"
- Codex on GPT-5.5 when will it support 1M?
- model and model_reasoning_effort are not set by global policy
- [Bug] Codex Desktop UI rendering issue: Plugins page and input area are clipped / blank on macOS Intel
- codex remote-control starts stale standalone app-server 0.132.0 while active CLI is npm-managed 0.133.0
- codex update uses standalone install.sh path instead of detecting npm-managed install
- Codex Desktop resets global permission mode from Auto-review to Default after restart
- TUI composer cursor should visibly blink while editing
- Support MCP OAuth callbacks in WebIDE/code-server
- After update app on MacOS, it always got the same error when I ask everything
- Codex Desktop Chrome plugin: Native Messaging Host registry key missing on Windows
- Codex App slash menu shows prompts/skills but hides built-in commands like /status and /review
- Codex Desktop in-app Browser Use runtime reports virtual clipboard missing until bootstrapped from Chrome runtime
- Context usage doesn't show up
- Recoverable reconnect loop before HTTP fallback when entering new or resumed thread
- Surface remote-control MFA enrollment errors in `codex remote-control start`
- Windows Desktop update installs but Codex does not relaunch afterward
- Codex app-server repeatedly killed by SIGKILL after memory grows to ~27GB when handling large tool/log output
- Require Ctrl + Enter to send long prompts ignored on Windows
- Windows sandbox setup helper triggers UAC installer detection (os error 740)
- Low-quality thinking and nonsense action decisions were made with xhigh
- Codex Desktop x64 build missing computer-use appshot service, causing "Unable to attach appshot"
- Codex desktop Review feature not working except for the Last Turn setting
- Codex App Appshots fail: Failed to spawn managed Computer Use service
- Authenticating with oauth protected MCP servers fails in WebIDEs
- Chat titles should be auto-updated as the conversation steers along
- Prompt briefly shows macOS MallocStackL process text before typing
- Codex-latest-x64.dmg ships with invalid code signatures on Intel macOS
- Codex Desktop Settings cannot save approval/sandbox config after plugin marketplace refresh updates config.toml
- Context window usage bar is not displayed after recent upgrades
- Sandbox docs: Suggestion to install apparmor can break samba
- Regression: Codex CLI 0.133.0 breaks native subagent spawning for local Ollama provider; 0.132.0 works
- Add option to suppress non-fatal startup warnings
- Codex App: context/compaction progress indicator disappeared from composer UI
- macOS: Codex.app launches but LaunchServices marks it stopped and shows “not open anymore”
- Allow /copy to target a specific assistant response by id
- Codex in-app Browser blocks http://127.0.0.1:3000 despite local server reachable
- Codex App session list can hide sessions whose first user message is an empty diff-comment wrapper
- Error running remote compact task: Context Length Exceeded
- Feature request: allow Codex mobile to pair with a separate Codex/API organization than the active ChatGPT account
- Expose rate-limit reset times, balance, plan as status_line tokens
- Codex Desktop sidebar sort by recent: show project and execution-context metadata in the global recent chat list
- Cloud Codex web container creation and removal
- Codex Desktop UI is oversized and clipped on Intel Mac (macOS 15.7.7, x86_64)
- Locked Computer Use fails with cgWindowNotFound on Mac mini M4 + Studio Display
- Chrome browser-use hangs on JavaScript confirm() dialogs; handle confirm like alert/beforeunload or expose dialog handling
- Codex Desktop voice dictation silently no-ops when microphone permission is missing
- Old Desktop rollouts resume into impossible context usage and remote compact fails with context_length_exceeded
- Codex app SSH connection to native Windows host fails: app-server unix:// creates regular file and websocket closes code=1006
- Context Window Not Large Enough (dead chat)
- `--dangerously-bypass-hook-trust` is ignored in TUI mode (codex 0.131.0–0.133.0): "Hooks need review" prompt still blocks startup
- v0.133.0: /goal sets active goal but get_goal/update_goal are not exposed to the model
- Windows: memory usage spikes and Codex freezes after repeated context compactions
- Codex Desktop cron automations create session_meta-only rollout sessions; prompt never executes
- Intel chip codex UI bug white box covering content
- Windows elevated sandbox fails with “spawn setup refresh” after Codex CLI update; unelevated sandbox works
- Codex Desktop: proactive handoff and rescue workflow for unrecoverable remote compaction failures
- Windows Desktop WSL workspace: node_repl/Browser/Chrome fail during sandbox ACL setup on \\wsl.localhost UNC path
- Official Meta Ads MCP fails OAuth login with invalid_client_metadata
- Programmatic chat creation API for Codex Desktop: spawn a sidebar-visible chat with initial prompt from an external orchestrator
- /review doesn't complete. It returns with "continue?" instead of a review.
- Managed requirements deny_read changes Git permission path; git prompt rule cannot restore normal workspace Git writes
- Codex flagging requests as security related erroniously.
- Make /review a callable skill instead of a built-in workflow
- iOS Codex follow-up default ignores desktop “Steer” setting and stays queued
- Mobile Codex gets stuck thinking when Plan mode is awaiting user input
- Sandbox broken in 0.133.0
- The models are braindead
- codex exec: no way to allow MCP tool calls non-interactively without --dangerously-bypass-approvals-and-sandbox
- Feature request: searchable local transcript history across sessions
- Codex repeatedly generates nonexistent file paths in final summaries/reports.
- Withdrawn
- Codex Desktop Windows: Goal feature fails with "Failed to set goal" and "Failed to clear goal"
- Dollar sign menu bloated with entirely irrelevant plugins I've never seen before or configured
- /goal slash command shows "Not sent" and does not create a goal
- fork_context:true subagents continue parent-thread work instead of following delegated prompt
- Failed to read thread goal: thread/goal/get failed in TUI
- apply_patch intermittently hangs/stalls without returning success or error
- Codex Desktop controls become unclickable when hidden/stale turn state exists
- Codex Desktop transcript shows internal XML-like context/control blocks
Resolved issues (35)
- Codex Desktop: context usage indicator disappeared from chat window
- CLI feedback thread upload: 019e419e-8f64-7bd0-a026-cad7c2438682
- Codex mobile Remote Control shows only one macOS host and overwrites it with the last active desktop host
- [Codex App] Context usage is hidden behind slash commands instead of visible in the chat toolbar
- Error running remote compact task: We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- Mac-to-Mac remote control appears in Control other devices but cannot be used
- Codex macOS app should natively support `/goal` like Codex CLI
- Codex Desktop App slash command popup renders incorrectly when typing "/"
- Diff Not Visible for `Last Run` - Auto-Review Bug
- /goal continuations appear to keep running after subscription quota is exhausted
- Codex app UI issue: options below the input box are obscured
- Regression: context usage percentage is missing from Codex input composer
- Codex App no longer shows context window percentage near send button
- Codex Desktop crashes when switching Markdown file viewer to rich rendered view
- Codex Desktop hangs after sidebar project menu move/unpin action on macOS
- [Bug] Codex Desktop UI rendering issue: Plugins page and input area are clipped / blank on macOS Intel
- Codex App crashes after left-click, right-click, left-click on toolbar
- Remote control can get stuck after idle or network changes with 409 Conflict until re-enrollment
- Support MCP OAuth callbacks in WebIDE/code-server
- Context window usage bar is not displayed after recent upgrades
- Windows TUI render corruption in git repos triggered by core.fsmonitor=false git metadata call
- Regression: Codex CLI 0.131.0-alpha.22 prints raw ANSI escape sequences in Windows TUI startup/resume
- Bug: raw ANSI control sequences in Windows interactive CLI when cwd is a Git repo (``), but not when `.git` is removed
- Codex App no longer shows context window percentage near send button
- Codex on GPT-5.5 when will it support 1M?
- Context usage doesn't show up
- Low-quality thinking and nonsense action decisions were made with xhigh
- Codex App: context/compaction progress indicator disappeared from composer UI
- Codex Desktop voice dictation silently no-ops when microphone permission is missing
- Intel chip codex UI bug white box covering content
- Repeat `Os { code: 24, kind: Uncategorized, message: "Too many open files" }` crashes
- Codex App renderer breaks when displaying inline code containing Rust-style `::` paths
- Codex Desktop Windows: Goal feature fails with "Failed to set goal" and "Failed to clear goal"
- Codex repeatedly generates nonexistent file paths in final summaries/reports.
- Codex (MS Store app) launches as background process only; no UI. Console shows disk cache `Access is denied (0x5)`