Digest / June 19, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — June 19, 2026
104 new issues filed ·
19 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (104)
- Unbounded duplicated thread metadata can crash Desktop startup reconciliation via better-sqlite3 .all()
- Codex Desktop for macOS: native notification when waiting for permission approval
- Please restore 5.3-codex as a selectable model
- Native Windows Remote SSH without WSL needs an app-server lifecycle adapter
- DELETED DATABASE YET AGAIN
- CLI is not picking up environment variable
- Fix bug where the top App Bar and left Side Menu Bar flicker through the screen
- Add /merge to import useful context from another Codex session
- High: Codex failed contract-first release discipline in long-running coding session
- Codex Memories enabled and generated locally, but never injected into new threads
- Realtime voice not on Windows App but appears in settings search
- Docs: add a first-contribution workflow for docs-only contributors
- Windows tray icon became white and is nearly invisible on the light taskbar
- Context window changes from 1M to 258K mid-thread
- can't launch codex app after latest update
- Error running remote compact task: Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.
- Asking for approval when full access is provided
- Cannot select Xcode theme in codex app
- Remote SSH bootstrap prefers stale ~/.local/bin/codex over newer /usr/bin/codex and reports version mismatch without selected path
- Potential macOS Security / File Visibility Issue after Codex Update
- SIGTRAP in v8::Isolate::New (CodeRange::InitReservation → SetPermissions) on macOS 26 Intel — regression in 0.141.0 (0.140.0 works)
- Codex Desktop hides Fast mode UI with stale model_catalog_json missing service_tiers
- Restricted filesystem profiles can block Codex's own runtime binary
- Record & Replay visible and installed, but event stream says not enabled for this user
- VSCode Codex sandbox fails with bwrap loopback error and causes repeated approval prompts
- Windows app 26.616.3767.0: elevated sandbox setup helper still fails with “The specified module could not be found”
- Full access mode still asks for approval after reconnecting to a remote environment
- Add a toggle for #28235
- Codex mobile version cannot enable remote control
- Stop/cancel becomes unresponsive when subagent MCP processes exhaust memory — Codex unrecoverable without killing processes externally
- codex resume in CLI should resume completely
- Unable to Use Computer Use
- Renderer repeatedly crashes to "Oops, an error has occurred" — unhandled CancelledError from app-server-manager-signals query invalidation
- gh-fix-ci: inspect_pr_checks.py reports failure snippet from the wrong Actions job
- Windows sandbox ACL setup sets the Archive attribute on every workspace file
- Confronting 2 files causes zsh trace trap
- Windows CLI can hang after shell output with quotes/non-ASCII corrupts function_call_output JSONL
- Codex history thread disappears when initial prompt is stored only as pasted-text attachment
- Codex App could not read terminal
- Windows Codex App: apply_patch fails because codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe cannot launch from package path
- PLEASE DONT MAKE CODEX more of an issue
- Cannot log in and log out of the codex
- Codex Desktop file preview turns blank/white for previous-day conversations while local files still open normally
- Codex Desktop on Windows leaves Node/MCP helper processes alive until memory pressure makes PC unresponsive
- VS Code Codex reports 950k context but compacts/fails around 260k-270k
- Codex run but not open window in Window 11
- Codex Desktop automation thread resume fails when state_5.sqlite has blank model_provider despite JSONL session_meta provider
- Codex Desktop (macOS): source-control watcher spawns thousands of git/sec on workspaces containing embedded git repos → syspolicyd/trustd CPU storm, fans max
- Windows PowerShell 5.1 can mojibake BOM-less UTF-8 Markdown in tool calls
- stream disconnected before completion: Transport error: network error: error decoding response body
- Regression: Up arrow pops last queued prompt instead of browsing prompt history
- Cannot find the specified module codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe
- Codex App: Terminal panel flashes briefly then disappears on macOS
- Codex Desktop triggers repeated Bitdefender PowerShell detections
- ChatGPT mobile SSH sessions do not live-sync back to Codex App and can conflict with active macOS app sessions
- Codex iOS remote live updates silently stop on Windows host; full app restart resumes already-complete thread
- MCP server instructions are not reliably exposed as server-wide agent guidance
- "Show context window usage" setting is reset after logout/login (unlike all other settings)
- Appshots fails because managed Computer Use service/plugin is missing on macOS
- Codex Chrome Extension is unavailable in Chrome Web Store
- Plugins from built-in marketplace are deleted after restart — marketplace source not persisted to config.toml
- Allow structured user questions in Default mode
- Computer Use Plugins Unavailable
- New thread from project leaves empty start page in back/forward history
- Codex Desktop: Add tooltips for Find Next/Previous shortcuts
- Windows 10 app 26.616.4196.0 repeatedly spawns Git root/metadata probes while idle
- Codex CLI v0.141.0 crashes with zsh: trace trap / SIGTRAP when attempting shell tool execution on macOS x86_64
- trace trap cdoex
- Windows/CodexSandboxUser isses
- Windows sandbox helper launch fails after update: ShellExecuteExW 1223
- Desktop Codex command runner fails for all shell commands with exit code 134, while Codex CLI works normally
- Give Full Access to codex but repeatedly ask for permission
- Codex crashed
- Presentations plugin runtime missing on Windows
- Codex App: add per-finding Fix buttons to review output
- Codex Desktop preview pane treats .sql files as unsupported audio instead of plain text
- [URGENT] Stable IDE extension ships a prerelease CLI with under-development "Code mode" silently active, breaking any long-running MCP calls and burning tokens while waiting
- Installed curated plugins are hidden from blank @ / + picker due to global result cap
- MCP stdio subprocesses strip CA cert and proxy env vars injected by network-isolating proxies
- Feature request: robust remote previews for videos and correctly rendered PDFs
- macOS app UI remains English when language is set to 中文（中国）
- Windows 10: sandbox setup helper shows "The specified module could not be found" after updating Codex App
- Codex Desktop inconsistently exposes automation_update across local threads
- Windows Codex App command runner blocks Tailnet SSH/TCP from sandbox user after update
- Codex Desktop Windows 26.616: local project threads appear, but opening one marks cwd missing and collapses project sidebar to No chats
- Unrecognized slash command prevents message from being sent
- Codex Desktop on Windows closes silently after a few minutes; sandbox profile cleanup appears unstable
- Add a config display command
- Codex panel stays loading indefinitly
- Codex CLI v0.141.0 crashes on Intel macOS x86_64 during first interactive file/shell tool action.
- Computer Use Plugins Unavailable
- Desktop Connections launches remote app-server with scrubbed env and leaves a stale backend that local CLI later reuses
- Reproducible hallucinations: a tool-surface change makes Codex GPT-5.5 xhigh fabricate tool-use attempts
- App-server crashes on any tool call ("thread_tools" unknown feature key) — sudden onset, no local trigger
- Approved require_escalated command still has no network access with custom permission profile
- macOS CLI/App: gpt-5.5 reports 950k context but fails around 260k input
- Codex mobile needs usage statistics
- Proposal: Explicit Execpolicy Amendment Persistence Choice between Project-Local or Global
- Codex CLI Ignores Available MCP Servers Until Manually Prompted
- anyio.to_thread.run_sync hangs when executed inside the Codex CLI sandbox (works in a normal shell)
- Issue with resuming codex after ^Z
- Support Closing Thread in MCP
- Codex rate limit resets disappeared
- Spell Check Vietnamese
Resolved issues (19)
- Codex Desktop macOS: account popup missing Usage Remaining and Settings missing Profile
- Public Codex reset appears to have been applied immediately instead of banked
- CLI crashing mid session
- Possible workaround for `context_compaction / invalid_enum_value` errors on Codex Desktop for Remote SSH
- Codex Stable 26.608.1337.0 crashes immediately after launch on one Windows user profile only
- macOS: Chinese IME loses composer focus after activating Codex by clicking Pet
- Codex Desktop mixes local custom provider base_url with remote auth.json API key
- Cannot select Xcode theme in codex app
- Windows app 26.616.3767.0: elevated sandbox setup helper still fails with “The specified module could not be found”
- Add a toggle for #28235
- Error running remote compact task: Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.
- (dry) test
- Skill prompt step 1 should instruct model to read SKILL.md fully before loading additional resources
- Windows Codex App 26.609.4994.0 no longer opens after update
- Codex gets stuck in a pre-write context compaction loop on large projects, repeatedly re-reading instructions and never reaching file edits
- Codex Desktop 26.609.30741 fully saturates CPU/RAM on launch after Jun 11 update; system becomes unusable and requires reboot
- Codex Desktop 26.609.71450 fails to hydrate existing local session and RAM reaches 99–100%
- Codex Desktop 26.616 on Windows: old sessions still missing and RAM grows to 99% of 32 GB after idle
- Codex Desktop Windows 26.602.71036 crashes / becomes inaccessible after update even with empty sessions