Digest / May 31, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — May 31, 2026
103 new issues filed ·
97 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (103)
- UI Bug - Lack of Ability for User to Control Popup Menu
- VS Code Codex browser plugin installed, but no session-owned browser route is registered
- Codex Desktop: Profile and Usage become unavailable until local UI state is cleared
- Feature request: read-only repo-local project_state for cross-session continuity
- Codex Desktop: recent message overlay obscures browser/file viewer when composer is collapsed
- Windows Codex Desktop: node_repl fails with “windows sandbox failed: spawn setup refresh”, breaking Chrome plugin and in-app Browser
- no longer open codex desktop
- The Codex app doesn't support Chinese yet
- Codex CLI/Desktop:Tool using Error ,missing_required_parameter
- Codex Chrome Plugin: extension-host not running, node_repl MCP tool unavailable in session
- Windows sandbox failed spawn setup refresh OS error 740
- Improve formatting in `codex doctor` output
- Codex Desktop thread corruption after image generation/insert causes BODY_PARSE_FAILED and unreadable sessions
- Windows Computer Use / node_repl fails: spawn setup refresh uses AppData codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe and returns os error 740
- CLI 0.135.0 crashes with STATUS_ILLEGAL_INSTRUCTION on Haswell Windows CPU
- Codex Windows desktop app deep link / OAuth callback bug
- Agent cannot interrupt spawned non-PTY command
- Windows Codex Desktop + WSL2 workspace: default command/exec fails with os error 2 even though WSL, repo, and bubblewrap are healthy
- Selection actions no longer appear for text selected inside Project Preview panel
- Codex Desktop Windows: `AttachConsole failed` uncaught exception from node-pty `conpty_console_list_agent` when starting Run action
- Regression: File diff expand/collapse control is missing in chat
- Windows Desktop: focused window shows black / wallpaper-colored transparent border unless opaqueWindows is enabled
- Pinning session with `CMD+Option+P` does not remember it got pinned on a relaunch
- [Windows] Codex Desktop crashes on launch in chrome.dll with 0xC0000005
- Codex forces phone re-verification multiple times per active session
- My message is sent prematurely while I am still typing in Codex plan mode
- cannot use codex windows app as it keeps throwing an error regarding Your access token could not be refreshed because your refresh token was already used. Please log out and sign in again.
- {"error":{"message":"An assistant message with 'tool_calls' must be followed by tool messages
- Codex constantly freezing
- Added a query interface with 5-hour and weekly limit restrictions
- Codex Desktop: add API/CLI support for creating and registering projects
- Codex Desktop: allow configuring the default folder for new projects
- Codex Desktop: support importing ChatGPT projects and chats
- Codex Desktop leaves orphaned zsh shell-snapshot processes burning ~100% CPU
- Codex session right-side scrollbar is blocked by the upper-right output panel
- Codex Desktop becomes extremely sluggish when opening very large local thread on Windows
- Windows Computer Use plugin fails to bootstrap: native pipe path is unavailable
- Codex app shows stale merged/closed PR for main branch
- Automations sidebar count badge no longer appears when active automations exist
- `codex resume` context compression drops recent conversation context, making continuation impossible
- Auto-review escalation fails: codex-auto-review model name not recognized
- Android Codex Mobile shows "Directory Unavailable" after Desktop conversation updates
- Conversations disappear from history after restarting Codex App
- Codex app not display sub-agent status any more
- apply_patch Add File silently overwrites existing files
- Codex Desktop in-app browser connector fails to attach on Windows sandbox startup
- Codex CLI /ide in VS Code integrated terminal includes open tabs but misses current selection
- Add handler-level quiet mode for command hooks
- False positive "Could not find bubblewrap on PATH" warning on Ubuntu 22.04 when bwrap is present and successfully executed
- "Could not load archived chats."
- Codex App keeps resetting compound-engineering plugin to a stale version
- Codex App 0.135.0 goal migration drops state_5.thread_goals but runtime still queries it
- Codex app shows launch errors and semi-transparent sidebar
- Codex Desktop: Cmd+Cmd app snapshot attaches to both main and side chat composers
- Codex App right-sidebar Outputs panel duplicates and reindexes images when toggling Show/Collapse
- Windows 10 Computer Use screenshot fails: SetIsBorderRequired failed (0x80004002)
- Codex CLI in an Eclipse IDE Terminal window doesn't allow backward scrolling (also with --no-alt-screen option)
- codex:// protocol handler fails on Windows - # fragment treated as file path
- codex computer use
- Windows: closing a Claude Code session triggers uncaught "AttachConsole failed" error in Codex App
- permissions.<id>.network.unix_sockets config not propagated to macOS Seatbelt policy
- [Windows] 0.135.0-alpha.1: maximized window renders sidebar/topbar backgrounds as transparent, localeOverride fails on first install
- Codex App settings show "unknown variant vertical" in Browser and Computer use pages
- Windows Desktop node_repl fails with sandbox setup refresh / os error 740
- Codex is using daily usage even when it is not doing anything
- Microsoft Store Fails to Install App
- Windows elevated sandbox fails on Cryptomator-mounted workspace (UNC/network drive)
- allow optional -w diff when presenting changes
- Codex mobile pairing stuck on Waiting for desktop: remote-control stays connecting and backend environments returns empty
- Windows desktop app: Norton can block PowerShell after Codex activity
- close_agent can hang forever after marking a subagent closed if the child thread never terminates
- Error: account/read failed during TUI bootstrap: account/read failed
- in Macos do not work keys: "OPT+," and "OPT+." (quick reasoning regulation keys).
- codex resume interactive picker hangs/freezes when session files are large; codex resume <id> works fine
- Expose settings for spellchecking in app settings (Windows Desktop)
- Codex Windows Desktop sidebar and menus become transparent after web UI loads
- Bug that breaks a chat thread which breaks codex completly
- Windows: local runner cannot start, CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5
- Duplicate Hooks
- Wrap TUI status footer across narrow terminals
- Codex Desktop @chrome bridge fails on Windows: windows sandbox failed: spawn setup refresh
- Config migration needed: legacy profile config and model pinning broke after update
- Expose server-level MCP approval defaults in codex mcp add
- Codex Desktop gets stuck with refresh-token-revoked auth error during active session
- Invalid image in your last message. Please remove it and try again.
- Declarative Dynamic Workflows foundation for Codex
- this is very bad its not producing plan design perfectly i need my money wasted on 12 hours sprint not producing consistent result
- Codex Desktop: add project icons and show them next to pinned thread names
- Logging out of the Codex app also logs me out of ChatGPT
- Streamable HTTP MCP client fails to parse Penpot MCP responses
- Add first-class project command environments for agent shell execution
- Windows Codex Desktop spawns powershell.exe every second for full process polling, causing high CPU usage
- Add subproject/workspace organization under a single SSH host project
- Goal mode fails ambiguously in Windows-to-SSH sessions with local attachments
- Codex Desktop sidebar title cache does not update after durable thread title repair
- MultiAgentV2 spawn_agent with fork_turns none delivers task as assistant/commentary mailbox envelope
- Please add LSP Client on Codex CLI
- Codex Windows app browser connection fails before reaching Chrome.
- Sidebar transparent after startup - stops after couple seconds
- Codex Desktop project threads disappear from project views/search while session JSONL remains readable
- Codex Desktop projects/threads not visible on second Windows device with same ChatGPT Pro account
- tui: env-gated external clipboard reader for headless environments
- Feature: in-session scheduling tools (Cron + ScheduleWakeup) and a /loop command
Resolved issues (97)
- Add HVTracker badge to README?
- macOS CLI: bundled Computer Use helper requests microphone permission without audio-input entitlement, then fails with "Apple event error -10000: Sender process is not authenticated"
- Simple cross-thread messaging by thread ID
- Typo in Codex Documentation
- Clear redundant approvals in same turn if one of them is approved for session
- Improve context usage visibility and limits information
- Thread Flagging System (Color-Coded Status Indicators)
- Feature request: block-level thread navigation in Codex Desktop (jump to start of latest assistant response)
- Feature request: make feedback submission more visible and trackable in ChatGPT/Codex
- exec: surface existing MCP server startup notifications in the JSONL event stream
- Browser Auto Reload
- [devcontainer] "secure" customer profile for devcontainer should be installable from Codex
- Can we make the CLI a little more obvious?
- Increase Codex’s usefulness as a real-world workbench by defaulting to separate shell commands
- Recent Threads Keyboard shortcut.
- Feature request: per-mode customization for Plan-mode question clarity (without forking)
- Feature request: surface Git and GitHub lifecycle events as structured chat messages
- Let user change reasoning level/model when accepting a plan
- Feature request: runtime activation gating for VPN-backed MCP servers
- Add Orchestrator/delegate mode such that the main agent is strictly read-only
- allow users to hide, pin, or reorder models in the Codex model selector
- Multi-project Automation
- Add an in-thread conversation outline (auto subheadings + quick jump) for each single thread
- Retain status line when in plan mode
- Support file mentions in `/review` custom review instructions like normal chat.
- Improve resume hint rendering
- Feature request: make request compression explicit instead of conditional behind enable_request_compression
- Codex App: make the file tree/sidebar resizable or show full filenames
- Feature request: batch-spawn forked subagents from a shared preloaded context
- I suggest OpenAI fully acquire Godot and Blender and launch AI collaboration skills.
- feature: SIGUSR2 handler for live config and rules reload
- Terminal combined view
- Feedback icons (thumbs up/down) do not show a clear selected state in Codex App
- Add support for Rider is in "Open In" menu on Windows
- Capability-Scoped Script Access for Codex
- Expose cumulative session cost in TokenCountEvent / event stream
- Show Q&A in session history on resume
- app-server supports set model_provider on `turn/start`
- Codex Skills menu not found
- Add detection for CLion
- Allow a Codex thread to identify its own codex:// deeplink URL/UDID identifier
- preserve shell session state across commands for env-sensitive workflows
- Add `stdin` field to `exec_command` for reliable multiline script execution
- Support reference images for imagegen
- Allow queued prompts after queued /new
- Allow per-file review & manual approval of code changes (like Claude Code)
- CLI/TUI: add a keyboard shortcut to cycle permission presets in-session
- Support for running multiple simultaneous profiles in the app
- Codex sync
- Support .env proxy conf
- Support per-skill disable for plugin-contributed skills
- Chronicle: allow selecting captured displays and add a global pause/resume shortcut
- Hide the Local/Cloud switch in VSCode sidebar extension (UI)
- Codex App: allow custom per-project icons in the sidebar and active project header
- Filter changes against currently selected Project instead of showing all changes in Codex app
- add option in the cli to add the current project to odex app and continue in the app
- chrome-devtools in Codex only exposes press_key, so typing text sucks
- Microsoft 365 connectors need explicit account and tenant selection
- Add Inline search bar option, native titlebar option, and movable floating search bar
- Improve Plan mode decision prompts with richer context and a standard more-context path
- [Codex Desktop] Add .lua syntax highlighting to .luau code blocks
- Allow remote connection providers to create/select hosts in Add remote project
- Show time stamp of last interaction / message on mouse-over in side panel
- Alias to `/` to `$` when an existing command does not resolve
- Support user override translation files for incomplete UI localization
- JetBrains / IntelliJ terminal renders Codex CLI user-vs-assistant distinction too weak compared to Ghostty/iTerm
- VS Code extension session sidebar should match Codex CLI resume picker semantics
- Lane/Orchestration Mode - Auto handoff and agent multithreading
- feature request: codex login status expose plan tier and add --json output
- Make /diff an interactive TUI explorer
- [FEATURE] Include pid/pgid in terminal_info ACP metadata for orphan process detection
- Organizations for Automations
- Conditional relaxation needed for legitimate biology literature reading and translation workflows
- add a desktop appearance setting for alternate pane layout
- Codex Desktop v26.527 no longer opens workspace from `open -a Codex <path>` on macOS
- Feature Request: Add `/archive` command to Codex CLI
- Expose a custom statusline widget API for the CLI airline
- Delete conversations from the left sidebar
- Codex constantly freezing
- Codex app on Windows fails SDK/workload resolution for some .NET projects while the same solution builds successfully in Visual Studio
- Added a query interface with 5-hour and weekly limit restrictions
- Codex Desktop: allow configuring the default folder for new projects
- Codex Desktop in-app browser connector fails to attach on Windows sandbox startup
- Codex app shows launch errors and semi-transparent sidebar
- codex:// protocol handler fails on Windows - # fragment treated as file path
- Windows 10 Computer Use screenshot fails: SetIsBorderRequired failed (0x80004002)
- Context compression killed Codex
- The issue with Codex not being able to compact the context has been going on for ten days now.
- at-mentions of files is unreliable when using remote connection
- Codex App 0.135.0 goal migration drops state_5.thread_goals but runtime still queries it
- Wrap TUI status footer across narrow terminals
- Codex Desktop @chrome bridge fails on Windows: windows sandbox failed: spawn setup refresh
- Keymaps with F13
- Invalid image in your last message. Please remove it and try again.
- this is very bad its not producing plan design perfectly i need my money wasted on 12 hours sprint not producing consistent result
- Preserve viewport/context when exiting transcript overlay
- Please add LSP Client on Codex CLI