Digest / June 29, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — June 29, 2026
123 new issues filed ·
132 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (123)
- (filed in error — please disregard)
- Using the `/side` feature is very slow
- stop forcing your ai to act instead of following either directions or agents.md guardrails.
- Codex icon is invisible/blank in Windows 11 system tray
- Projectless chat can hit context-window error instead of automatic compaction
- Expose non-interrupt queued delivery for cross-thread send_message_to_thread
- Windows Desktop: elevated/admin Codex breaks normal image/file UI interactions with non-elevated apps
- GPT-5.5 Fast spends long time in Thinking/Reading after latest Codex Desktop update
- Codex Computer Use helper can keep macOS replayd/ReplayKit active and spike CPU while idle
- apply_patch: fuzzy seek_sequence matching silently corrupts context line indentation
- [Important！！！] Regarding the billing vulnerability of Plus subscription limit
- "Create your own pet" fails — "Unable to start pet creation" (hatch-pet skill missing from app.asar)
- Codex Mac app token usage is not accurate
- Windows VS Code extension repeatedly spawns git.exe in non-Git folders, causing ~10 GB paged-pool growth
- VS Code queue repeatedly executes completed task instead of advancing to the next queued item
- codex exec retries 401s instead of failing fast when no credentials are configured
- Codex App automations clutter main thread list and lose recurring task intent
- Current CLI startup can stall before the TUI prompt when logs_2.sqlite/WAL is large or busy
- Codex Desktop fails to open an already-running IntelliJ IDEA instance on Windows
- Unauthenticated TUI reports failed embedded app server instead of login guidance
- Remote SSH conversation history disappears from sidebar after Codex Desktop update/restart
- Codex quota consumed abnormally fast and remaining quota reset to zero after update
- Resizable Chat Pane Width for Better Large-Screen Productivity
- Codex Desktop custom provider app/dynamic tools end turns without function_call after automation_update-related prompts
- Codex Desktop intermittently corrupts structured tool-call arguments, with related Computer Use app-signature failure
- Bug: Unexpected high quota consumption by Desktop App while idle
- app-server turn hangs indefinitely after a tool result — model stream stalls, no terminal turn event, thread unrecoverable (gpt-5.5 / xhigh)
- Windows 10: Codex app triggers Microsoft Defender Behavior Monitoring / high CPU after recent update
- Codex Desktop macOS: Browser node_repl/js fails with sandboxCwd must be an absolute file URI
- Pasted clipboard screenshots are not available to the agent when using WSL
- Copy icon floats over comment input box and blocks editing area
- Codex app keeps crashing, Windows 11 Pro, 25H2, 26200.8737
- Codex App composer cannot be focused after opening from Codex Pet notification bubble on macOS
- Project chats only drag into folders after pinning, and new project chats can escape project folders
- parse_git_apply_output mis-attributes paths via BTreeSet::next_back()
- Browswer/Chrome Plugin is not working with VSCode Ext
- Responses WebSocket 101 response does not include x-codex-turn-state despite client replay support
- Codex Desktop: Sources panel stays empty despite working plugins, agents, memories, MCP and GitHub
- Windows Codex elevated sandbox repeatedly fails when Codex is launched with HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY to localhost proxy
- GPT-5.5 is very slow (tokens/s) on a Pro 20x sub through the Codex endpoint compared to before
- Windows sandbox fails permanently if deny_read_acl_state.json is corrupted
- Windows Codex Desktop uses bundled pnpm before user pnpm, causing packageManager mismatch and non-TTY abort
- Codex Desktop freezes while running new-worktree environment setup command
- Codex Desktop crashes on startup after interrupted/unstable automatic update; manual latest install fixes it
- Codex Desktop branch selector changes Git checkout but UI label remains stale
- Chrome backend unavailable in terminal/API session: untrusted-code-signing-identity while Codex App @Chrome works
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Duplicate of #29809: Codex Desktop remote SSH app-server accumulation
- Chinese localization missing for “Choose project” in Codex app
- Codex Desktop fails creating worktree for branch
- Zellij rich history replay can hide the conversation tail after long URL-only lines
- Codex Desktop exits when inherited OTEL metrics exporter config is invalid
- Codex Desktop 26.623.61825 crashes with EXC_BREAKPOINT/SIGTRAP in CrBrowserMain on macOS 27.0
- unable to use codex saying "Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion"
- can not connect codeX remote server!
- [Bug] App crashes due to infinite webview rendering loop and local directory recognition failure
- Tool 'image_generation' not supported when using non-OpenAI providers (e.g. MiMo)
- Codex App crashes/hangs when opening local HTML with the built-in browser on Windows
- Feedback ID: 019ef567-e380-77b2-9c97-49630755ce75
- MCP Apps CSP: connectDomains with ws:// / http:// scheme is forcefully rewritten to https://, blocking local WebSocket connections
- Feature request: give Codex IDE-like semantic code navigation
- Windows 26.623: Browser/Chrome plugins installed and runtime present, but node_repl js tool is not exposed
- Codex fuzzy file search no longer matches collapsed path abbreviations.
- Codex Desktop / app wrapper ignores model_reasoning_effort and plan_mode_reasoning_effort from ~/.codex/config.toml
- Windows App: WSL file links and built-in browser preview do not work for WSL projects
- Expose native /goal lifecycle over the Codex MCP server
- Codex App shows 0% context usage after reopening historical threads until a new message or fork
- Reduce frequency of rate limit reset opportunity popups
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Expose worktree-aware thread environment APIs in Codex SDK/app-server
- Windows Codex App installer/update failures need clearer recovery and diagnostics
- CODEX STALLING, REMAINING ON "Thinking..." MODE
- Support first-class Windows-to-Windows Codex App pairing and remote control
- Codex App automations should collapse duplicate scheduled tasks with identical prompts
- Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Last version doesn's work on VS code for Linux
- GPT-5.4 mini immediately reports “Model at capacity” for all new and old Codex sessions
- Persistent capability registry for skills and tools with lazy health checks
- GPT-5.5 capacity error interrupts ongoing image-based sessions on Windows app 26.623.61825
- Codex Windows tray icon is blank/white in the system tray.
- feedback ID: 019f0dd4-c258-7ef3-94e9-66a37b013b94
- Codex entered a hallucination during a Tool Call
- Arabic mixed with English/code is not rendered correctly in Codex chat الجمهور العربي يطالب بابسط الحقوق بنص عربي قابل للفهم
- Codex Desktop Windows: project rows show tiny native scrollbar buttons in sidebar
- Ultra sends reasoning.effort=max, but backend rejects max.
- Improve the display style of "Settings" shortcut key
- Computer Use and Chrome plugin fail to start on Windows 11 Home (windows sandbox failed: helper_unknown_error: setup_refresh had errors)
- 019eff80-d39b-7ae1-b739-58a292d7f5be
- gpt-5.5 Code Mode crashes with SIGTRAP (EXC_BREAKPOINT in v8::Isolate::New) on macOS — hardened runtime blocks V8 JIT
- Windows Codex App times out during model thinking and remote pairing/reconnect（no-active-thread-019f13dc-929c-7fd1-bebc-5c5fb5bd0185）
- Quickly draining my limits and sent feedbacks of Codex kept thinking even after completing the assigned task
- "Walk me through it" - Live screen-sharing + voice guidance to help navigating complex workflows
- Errors
- Codex Crash
- macOS: Same ChatGPT account works on Windows but fails with X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite on Codex CLI
- Remote compact consistently fails for a long GPT-5.5 session and blocks thread continuation
- execpolicy prompt rules should support forcing user approval when auto-review is enabled
- Incorrect "usage limit" error despite having 90% quota remaining
- Codex VS Code extension crashes immediately with "Custom tool call output is missing" (SIGTRAP)
- Codex Desktop on macOS becomes completely unable to accept input (total lock-out); only Force Quit restores it
- UX footgun: `/feedback <text>` can be routed like a normal prompt instead of opening or pre-filling the feedback flow
- In-app browser screenshot capture times out when Codex app is minimized
- Windows Desktop ambient suggestions over SSH remote can drive remote app-server SQLite CPU/IO churn
- [macOS] Codex Computer Use damaged and verification hangs after 26.623.70822 update
- Keep on output stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url
- a big bug to report
- Severe: Codex Desktop can hammer disks in game/media/ML repos with many binary assets, risking SSD wear
- I am on an unlimited enterprise account but I hit usage limits.
- 019f14d0-a29a-7991-8a9d-8eb7ca8ec496
- Memory Phase 2 ignores sandbox_mode=danger-full-access and starts nested macOS sandbox-exec
- SSH remote project automations should run on the remote host while the local Codex app is offline
- [Bug] Desktop multi-session send never completes (outgoing_message.rs:563 missing turn/completed event)
- Hitbox (click area) of the window control macos buttons are too small
- fix(marketplace): prune stale upgrade staging directories
- Custom mascot
- Remote Control-created target thread hits Chrome Browser Use enterprise-policy block while target-local thread passes
- Codex Desktop freezes when using Browser plug-in / in-app browser; repeated app-server handshake timeout loops
- no-active-thread-019f1565-7b14-7a30-bb46-a99eed037fd7
- Codex Desktop create_thread from an SSH-host executor can spawn children on local host and lose completion handoffs
- Allow interactive prompts to wait indefinitely instead of auto-selecting a recommended answer
- Goal pause state exists, but agent tool contract can make agents report pause is unavailable
- Tokens used excessively quickly. New 5 hour reset used in 41 minutes!
Resolved issues (132)
- Codex is not responding... CONSTANTLY.
- Codex Desktop Windows: Workspace Dependencies remain "Not installed" and Diagnose fails even under minimal config
- Windows sandbox can leave workspace owned by CodexSandboxOnline, then setup refresh fails with SetNamedSecurityInfoW 5
- (filed in error — please disregard)
- Codex icon is invisible/blank in Windows 11 system tray
- Blank screen when scrolling long conversations after latest update
- [Windows] codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe fails with "The specified module could not be found"
- app-server turn hangs indefinitely after a tool result — model stream stalls, no terminal turn event, thread unrecoverable (gpt-5.5 / xhigh)
- Codex Desktop macOS: Browser node_repl/js fails with sandboxCwd must be an absolute file URI
- Windows Codex Desktop uses bundled pnpm before user pnpm, causing packageManager mismatch and non-TTY abort
- Duplicate of #29809: Codex Desktop remote SSH app-server accumulation
- feedback ID: 019f0dd4-c258-7ef3-94e9-66a37b013b94
- Arabic mixed with English/code is not rendered correctly in Codex chat الجمهور العربي يطالب بابسط الحقوق بنص عربي قابل للفهم
- gpt-5.5 Code Mode crashes with SIGTRAP (EXC_BREAKPOINT in v8::Isolate::New) on macOS — hardened runtime blocks V8 JIT
- Error running remote compact task: {"detail":"Bad Request"}
- Repeated "Error running remote compact task: unexpected status 403 Forbidden: "
- automatic triggered "remote compact task" never works (Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion)
- Error running remote compact task
- Error running remote compact task: Context Length Exceeded
- Codex Desktop remote compaction repeatedly fails on long sessions
- ERROR codex_core::compact_remote: remote compaction failed
- Keep running into "Error running remote compact task"
- Error running remote compact task
- TOO MUCH Error running remote compact task
- Error running remote compact task
- Error running remote compact task while using 5.3codex-spark
- Error running remote compaction task
- Error running remote compact task: Fatal error: remote compaction v2 expected exactly one compaction output item, got 0 from 0 output items
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Regression: long resumed conversations fail remote compact with context_length_exceeded on 0.132.0+
- Codex Desktop GPT-5.5 remote compaction fails and leaves thread unusable
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Azure /responses/compact 5xx should fall back to local auto compaction
- Remote compact task timeout -> session becomes unrecoverable (resume also hangs)
- Error running remote compact task: We're currently experiencing high demand, which may cause temporary errors.
- Codex gets stuck after "Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion"
- Windows Codex Desktop: gpt-5.5 xhigh remote compaction repeatedly disconnects near context limit
- Codex remote compaction deadlocks when input_image payloads remain in compacted replacement history
- Error running remote compact task: Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.
- Codex Web remote compaction fails with context_length_exceeded from mobile session
- CLI remote compaction repeatedly fails and leaves resumed threads without task continuity
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion BUG
- Remote compact task fails with unknown variant auto, expected high or original
- Remote compact can create huge compacted records and make session unrecoverable
- Desktop Computer Use thread becomes unrecoverable after appshot/image history poisons remote compaction
- Remote compaction intermittently fails with stream disconnected before completion
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion
- Codex Desktop: context compaction fails with remote compact stream disconnected
- Remote compact consistently fails for a long GPT-5.5 session and blocks thread continuation
- Windows Codex app /compact fails with remote compaction v2 expected exactly one output item
- unable to use codex saying "Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion"
- gpt-5.5 compact_remote: high demand reliably fails on Azure OpenAI / Foundry - A/B confirms it is not endpoint-specific
- compact bug
- Remote compaction preserves assistant messages and leaves next turn at ~234k input tokens
- The context window is too small --- Auto Compact on Terminal is completely broken
- Repeated 'Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit'
- Remote CLI auto-compact times out on gpt-5.5 long sessions
- Codex app /compact fails with context_length_exceeded after UI says “Context compacted”
- CLI: remote compact task fails with retry exhaustion and 429 Too Many Requests
- Increase TCP user timeout for default client to avoid compaction hangs
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Feedback ID: 019ef567-e380-77b2-9c97-49630755ce75
- Errors
- Remote compact task consistently times out on CLI (author login), while API-compatible provider path works
- Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Linux remote compact can time out at ~31s despite 20m request timeout due to reqwest TCP_USER_TIMEOUT
- Codex Desktop Context Compact Error
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- The context cannot be automatically compressed and an error is prompted: Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Old Desktop rollouts resume into impossible context usage and remote compact fails with context_length_exceeded
- Diagnostic for remote compaction stream disconnects: test long-idle HTTPS path with slee.pt >90s
- long session cannot continue
- CLI remote compaction loops with 400 invalid_enum for `context_compaction`, consuming quota across sessions
- Error When auto compose and dead circle
- 401 on remote compaction (/responses/compact) in Codex App does not recover gracefully
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url
- compact error
- Codex server-side compaction fails
- CODEX stops working for "■ Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)"
- `compact_remote.rs` filter violates Responses item-pairing invariant for `store=true` requests
- Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.
- Automatic context compaction in Codex Desktop is extremely slow, sometimes taking around a full minute
- Codex doesnt auto compact its context with gpt 5.5 xhigh
- Codex Compact Error
- After update app on MacOS, it always got the same error when I ask everything
- GPT-5.5 Codex session hits unrecoverable compaction failure around ~220k tokens despite advertised 400k context
- Threads freeze and errors for 2 days already Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- Repeated Compact-related ERROR & Stuck in Working
- High API error rate during remote compaction; now ALL Codex CLI API calls fail with “high demand” error last ~2hrs
- failing to compress
- Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.
- Context compaction failed
- context_length_exceeded
- Automatic Compact Recurring Error
- Compaction error
- Compaction/Autocompaction fails
- Context Compaction Hanging
- Repeated 413 errors on compaction
- Compaction/reconnect can drop live orchestration state after stream disconnect
- Unable to compact the context in a VERY long running session
- compact execution failed
- Context compaction not working
- Compaction Errors in Codex app and CLI
- Compaction failure
- Error running remote compact task: stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses/compact)
- Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new conversation or clear earlier history before retrying.
- Compaction state is not synchronized between Codex App and CLI, and /compact cannot recover a resumed long thread
- Suddenly fails to compact by itself and it shows 0 token usage.
- "Goal blocked" after auto compact fail for ~1 hour run goal session.
- ■ codex-cli 0.115.0-alpha.24: Error running remote compact task: timeout waiting for child process to exit
- [Bug] Recursive Context Poisoning (Cloudflare/WAF) triggering persistent History Loss and False Rate Limits
- Windows Codex app hangs indefinitely during context compaction after `responses/compact` on bundled agent `0.122.0-alpha.1`
- app-server: compaction completes server-side but `turn/completed` is never delivered to the JSON-RPC client — thread stays "Compacting…" yet remains healthy/resumable
- CLI can get stuck in repeated pre-sampling compact failure loop with large tool-output history
- bug: Compaction can overwrite concurrent history writes and loop indefinitely
- Context compaction on remote connection failing due to invalid value: `context_compaction`
- Context percentage shows zero after compaction
- Compaction hit usage limit but /status showing available
- \compact does not work
- Context compact error
- Desktop app: context overflow can terminate a turn before any compaction runs, then reset status to '100% left (0 used / 760K)' and finish with no agent message
- Computer Use fails to initialize on Windows: `@oai/sky` package exports missing `computer_use_client_base.js`
- Compact fails in CLI and Codex VS Code Extension
- re-authing in pane1 causes infinite loop when pane2 tries to remotely compact
- Codex Spark unable to compact conversations
- Compacted replacement_history retains active startup/context packets, duplicating AGENTS/developer/memory/skills context
- Compact fails using azure openai if not using v1 endpoint
- Codex Desktop: /responses/compact can hang for 30-60 minutes or return 504 while normal responses_websocket works
- Codex ran out of room in the model's context window. Start a new thread or clear earlier history before retrying.
- A way to exclude sensitive files
- [Bug] Codex IDE extension 26.527.31454 converts pasted task cards into Pasted text.txt with no editable text option
- no-active-thread-019f1565-7b14-7a30-bb46-a99eed037fd7