Digest / June 20, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — June 20, 2026
99 new issues filed ·
9 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (99)
- Desktop custom providers are unusable with existing chats and the model picker
- macOS Computer Use leaks SkyComputerUseClient turn-ended helpers
- Codex Desktop cannot start thread: permissionProfile/list unknown variant and PermissionProfileSelectionParams type mismatch
- Desktop app: existing conversations do not pick up updated API credentials, causing stream disconnected errors
- Improve visual distinction between Projects and Threads in Codex Desktop sidebar
- Codex Desktop projects are shared across different accounts on the same PC but do not sync across devices
- Generating Random Non-Related Image While Using Codex
- Styling the prompting area with Markdown is brilliant.
- Codex Desktop new conversations spend several minutes at Reconnecting 5/5 before starting normally
- macOS app: voice dictation and Apple Dictation fail in composer despite microphone access being allowed
- Windows app keeps showing update icon after restarting to update
- Codex apps/ChatGPT connectors do not work with non-gpt models
- Codex desktop sidebar shows the same relative timestamp for all local threads
- Pytest output perma-hangs on 0.141.0
- Codex Desktop on Windows generates excessive local SQLite I/O and causes system stalls
- Windows Codex Desktop 26.616.4196.0 regression: apply_patch / fs-helper fails when global proxy env is set
- Feature request: native cleanup tool for outdated automation runs
- Generated images are not saved to disk and no path is returned (regression in 0.140/0.141, Linux)
- Codex crashed with the following error
- macOS Apple Silicon (arm64): traffic light window controls clipped at bottom
- Add selected-thread delivery and cron-to-heartbeat conversion for automations
- Windows tray icon is nearly invisible on light backgrounds
- codex remote-control start fails on Alpine Linux 3.23.3 with pid-managed app server start-time error
- Codex Desktop thread switching is consistently slow on Windows
- Codex Desktop 26.616.41845 node_repl fails: codex/sandbox-state-meta missing sandboxPolicy
- Regression: Codex Computer Use helper is damaged after 26.616.41845 auto-update
- Cannot create threads
- The reset count has been consumed but the reset is ineffective.
- Windows Codex Desktop 26.616: node_repl/js fails with codex/sandbox-state-meta missing field `sandboxPolicy`
- [Feature Request] Add i18n support / Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) localization for Codex UI
- Codex Usage going up with no messages
- Codex Desktop pet animation falls back to idle while task is still running
- Codex WebSearch receives Cloudflare managed challenge (403) on /backend-api/codex/alpha/search
- Settings > Browser > Test Browser Tool
- The Browser plugin does not work in the Codex desktop app on Windows.
- Windows Desktop: codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe dialog appears on apply_patch after 26.616 update
- Android mobile remote connections require slow reconnects and hosts cannot be renamed
- [Feature Request] i18n support: Simplified Chinese (简体中文) UI localization
- [Feature Request] i18n support: Simplified Chinese (简体中文) UI localization
- Codex desktop browser/annotation tools fail: missing field sandboxPolicy
- Remote synced plugin should skip MCP startup when required runtime is missing
- Codex App opens hundreds of outbound TCP connections when subagents use imagegen skill
- Flagged for cyber security bug
- GPU access blocked upon starting VSCode already having "Full access" given. A toggle of the permission is needed.
- Canva MCP app succeeds but returns no HTML preview in Codex Desktop
- Node REPL broken: sandboxPolicy missing in MCP request meta (version mismatch)
- Codex Desktop 26.616.41845: `node_repl/js` fails with missing `sandboxPolicy`, breaking Chrome and Computer Use tools
- node_repl js fails with missing codex/sandbox-state-meta sandboxPolicy
- Codex Desktop @chrome fails before bootstrap: node_repl/js missing sandboxPolicy
- Browser Use fails on Windows: node_repl/js sandbox-state-meta missing sandboxPolicy
- Locked Use plugin update failed on macOS Tahoe 26.5.1
- Windows Computer Use cannot connect to native pipe on Windows 10.0.26200.8655
- CLI resume drops markdown table tail from historical assistant message
- Codex Desktop ignores node_repl args and sends malformed sandbox metadata to js tool
- Random Sign out and Chat Delete
- Codex desktop spellcheck underlines misspellings but context menu shows “No Guesses Found”
- [Feature Request] TOC of questions in thread to quickly preview and locate the questions
- Fresh local 0.142.0-alpha.1 sessions no longer receive codex_app thread-management tools
- bowser control stop working - no-active-thread-019ee563-9e8c-74a2-bd50-e8e07a57aa97
- WSL Remote extensionHost hangs when Codex rehydrates stale /mnt/* paths from ~/.codex state
- Chrome plugin does not work on Windows 11: node_repl js fails before browser connection
- Chrome plugin / node_repl broken after Codex Desktop update: missing sandboxPolicy and dependencies cannot reinstall
- Account has usage limit but prompting causes limit hit error
- [Windows Desktop] Browser Use unavailable: js_repl removed but browser_use still enabled
- Codex Desktop in-app browser closes on malformed URL
- Disable chat search feature by @ inside the prompt.
- Codex App: codex_chronicle built for macOS 15.0 crashes on macOS 14.7.2 and causes task startup Timeout
- Windows remote control only works with global proxy env vars, but then all conversations fail with 403 invalid_workspace_selected
- js_repl incorrectly marked as "removed", breaking Chrome/Browser/Computer-Use plugins
- Codex asks for permission despite full access and approval prompts disabled
- New Windows Codex app tray icon is low quality and less distinctive than the previous one; consider giving users a choice between colored and monochrome icons
- Bug: CLI crashes with SIGTRAP (trace trap) when logs_2.sqlite exceeds ~200MB
- Codex Desktop Windows: node_repl/js fails before execution with missing sandboxPolicy metadata
- Plus subscription active, but Codex still shows no credits / usage exhausted after upgrade
- Codex in-app browser control broken after update: missing sandboxPolicy
- Windows Codex Desktop 26.616.5445: Browser Use fails because node_repl/js metadata is missing sandboxPolicy
- Chrome and Computer Use fail with “missing field sandboxPolicy” on Windows 10
- Pro $100 (5x) plan is rate-limited as `plus` on Codex Desktop — access_token has plan_type=prolite but the responses API returns X-Codex-Plan-Type=plus
- I paid for pro but stuck at free and its block me for everything
- Windows: Python stdio MCP servers fail handshake — stdout response never received by rmcp client
- CTRL+Q Crashing Codex
- Codex Desktop 26.616.x: new conversation fails with "Invalid request: missing field inputSchema" while old threads and CLI work
- Computer Use / node_repl fails on Windows: missing sandboxPolicy
- Windows Remote SSH - bundled codex 0.142.0-alpha.6 fails with sandbox timeout, 0.140.0 works
- Chrome control cannot initialize because sandboxPolicy metadata is missing
- Provide a MSI or EXE to install Codex Desktop App im custom path
- Browser plugin fails because sandboxPolicy is missing from sandbox-state metadata
- core: per-turn token-count estimate serializes the full history for a trace-only log field; gate it behind trace-enabled
- approval_policy newer workspace-write boundary failure and generated URL contains two ID errors
- Remote Control from macOS desktop drops Mac mini connection when opening remote threads
- Multi agentic and tool integration
- Pre-release v26.5616.41845 does not work with VS Code Insiders
- Computer Use unavailable on Windows: sandboxPolicy missing
- Browser Use on MacOS failing with sandboxPolicy missing field
- In-app Browser fails after desktop update: missing sandboxPolicy
- CLI hook review detail screen has no reject/disable/remove action
- Show token usage breakdown at the end of codex exec
- Website
- Windows Codex node_repl/js fails: missing sandboxPolicy in codex/sandbox-state-meta
Resolved issues (9)
- /permissions needs to be able to be invoked during tasks
- Codex Desktop cannot start thread: permissionProfile/list unknown variant and PermissionProfileSelectionParams type mismatch
- Codex Computer Use still reported damaged after 26.611.61049 update and auto-restart
- Cannot create threads
- Codex Desktop pet animation falls back to idle while task is still running
- Codex desktop spellcheck underlines misspellings but context menu shows “No Guesses Found”
- WSL remote regression: newer versions hang remote extension host, older versions break Codex send with TypeError: n is not iterable
- status checking is error
- Desktop Codex command runner fails for all shell commands with exit code 134, while Codex CLI works normally