Digest / July 2, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 2, 2026
66 new issues filed ·
40 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (66)
- Plug-in list
- Desktop app crashes with "Codex app-server websocket closed (code=3221225501)" while CLI works normally on Windows 11 25H2
- Ollama model Qwen 3.6:35b stuck on model selection in codex after --restore. Codex not working at all.
- Codex App crashes when Open in File Explorer targets unavailable removable drive
- Add GUI interaction support on Linux
- Codex Desktop Chrome bridge unavailable: node_repl missing and process launch fails
- Codex Desktop: long-running /goal abruptly fails with {"detail":"Bad Request"} and interrupts the task
- Codex macOS desktop renderer crash loop in 149.0.7827.197
- Codex CLI login blocked — phone verification shows unknown foreign number (not mine)
- Ability to cancel a steer before it's actually applied
- Computer Use and in-app browser plugins unavailable on Windows
- Desktop sidebar does not show local threads created through app-server
- Codex Desktop full-access and approved command prefixes still trigger approval prompts
- Windows Codex app missing Codex mobile / remote control pairing entry
- Codex Desktop lacks stable local HTML render/export path in projectless threads
- MCP unsupported call
- Closed subagents remain in sidebar until threads are archived
- Codex Desktop on Windows does not expose mcp__node_repl__js / node_repl js, so Browser Use cannot control the in-app browser
- Codex app: automation_update tool not exposed in thread despite existing local automations
- Codex crash on Windows10 Home 22H2
- Thread total count appears to double-count projectless threads
- Codex Desktop updater repeatedly fails on macOS with installer/updater error dialogs
- Codex Pro 5x quota drops 2-3% for a single normal prompt, equivalent to 10-15% of Plus 5-hour quota
- Reopen #19464 and support 1M context
- This model is not supported when using X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite.
- Feature request: Thread-level plugin/MCP profiles for scene-based workflows
- Pasting emoji crashes Codex app on macOS
- Codex reports usage limit despite Pro plan and dashboard showing remaining 5h/weekly quota
- Desktop never resumes threads that appear while the app is running (created by an external app-server client) - endless loading, resumeState=null, until app restart
- GitHub connector authorization can leak across devices in shared Codex account
- Usage limits draining abnormally fast on Plus: 70% to 100% in about 6 minutes on July 2, 2026
- Codex Desktop: add an IDE-style Git workspace with branch tree, commit graph, and changed-file explorer
- Codex Desktop ARM64 Windows idles at ~10% CPU in main process
- Custom GPT endpoint cannot use Imagen (The built-in image_gen tool described by the skill is not exposed in this session)
- MCP Tools Not Exposed to Agent in Codex Desktop, Only Resources Are Available
- Windows Desktop: failed to resolve rollout path / Error submitting message on every new conversation
- Codex desktop in-app browser crashes on browser file import; standalone Chrome works, Firefox works, Edge works.
- Codex Desktop on Windows triggers kernel Token/Toke growth via repeated git.exe process creation
- Codex CLI 0.142.5 crashes with zsh: trace trap / SIGTRAP on macOS 12.6.3 x86_64, MacBookAir9,1.
- Codex Desktop 26.623.81905 crashes with CrBrowserMain EXC_BREAKPOINT/SIGTRAP and app-server memory spike on macOS 27
- Codex Desktop reports stale or incorrect 0.132 version while running 0.142.x
- git-branch statusline does not refresh after external git checkout
- no-active-thread-019f2256-2677-79c3-ac0e-1223a7b832b9
- Codex CLI resume can SIGKILL/OOM on huge rollout dominated by repeated compacted records
- Codex CLI stream repeatedly reconnects then falls back after websocket closes before response.completed
- Cannot select managed permission profile from requirements.toml if it enables network access
- skill-creator quick_validate.py fails because PyYAML is missing
- otel: exported OTLP logs have timeUnixNano=0 (event timestamp never set), causing collectors to drop them
- Plan Mode needs defined planning semantics and lifecycle, not only plan-shaped output
- Request for improvement of chrome extension function
- Usage limits draining 5-10x too fast for 2 weeks, one message eats 46% of the 5h window
- Codex App shows phantom branch when remote default branch contains a slash
- Usage hit 0% with zero messages sent, quota draining with no activity at all
- Codex App project thread creation tools are missing
- Codex Desktop marks in-progress commentary as task_complete while plan is incomplete, silently ending long-running turn
- apply_patch: pure-addition chunk ignores its `@@` context and silently inserts at end of file, reporting Success
- Browser Use rejects all external URLs as enterprise network policy when privileged config bridge is missing
- Inconsistent keyboard shortcuts for dictation in the Codex app - Hold-to-dictate hotkey
- Unrecoverable error doing Codex session. with gpt-5.5-cyber-preview
- Device options invisible in Dimensions dropdown
- Auto-pause for goal executions when usage limit is reached
- Codex App creates detached worktree when a local branch is selected as the starting branch
- Codex App environment UI does not refresh after a detached worktree is switched onto a branch
- SQLite WAL journal mode corrupts runtime DBs (logs_2, state_5, …) when CODEX_HOME is on a network filesystem (NFS)
- stream disconnected before completion: error sending request for url (https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses)
- Codex CLI 0.142.5 completely unusable in Ghostty 1.3.1 — kitty keyboard protocol and OSC responses leak as literal text
Resolved issues (40)
- Codex app only displays (Something went wrong…)
- Codex code review reacts with 👀 but never posts a review after a repo is transferred to a GitHub org
- Any Single Engine Crash Leaves Orphaned Threads That Cause a Persistent Crash/Resume Loop
- Codex 运行时发生错误： (code=3221225477, signal=null). Most recent error: None
- High GPU usage when app is on screen Mac
- Codex use UTF-8 BOM by default and change Chinese to unreadable nonsenese
- Specific Codex conversation gets stuck in perpetual "thinking" after PC restart during an active turn
- MCP tools disappear in existing Codex sessions after reload or time, but work in new sessions
- "Open in Rider" leads to Rider-sided exception
- Windows App WSL: Opening Codex causes ubuntu to not be able to execute .exe files
- Files links aren't clickable on windows on the codex app
- Add rendered LaTeX math support to the Codex App (inline)
- Codex App: Archived threads should keep latest renamed title
- Archiving spawned sub-agent thread collapses all threads.
- Codex intermittently segfaults when starting pytest in Conda env, while same repo/tests work in user terminal and Cursor
- No Execute Permission on WSL App; Can't Get to Settings to Disable WSL
- Local paths in MCP args are not working in Codex app (but work in Codex CLI)
- Desktop-created worktree thread exists locally but never appears in Codex Desktop thread list
- Top menu bar buttons do not respond to clicks on Windows (File, Edit, View, Window, Help)
- Updated and now I cannot pull up any threads, the thread keeps spamming like its refreshing and I have a red error box at the top
- Windows desktop app: packaged app-server exits with 0xC0000135 on launch, likely missing runtime dependency
- Crash caused by missing pointer in underlying C++ code
- Codex patch french format files in UTF-1 instead of UTF-8 causing massive mojibake
- Codex Windows App Renders Local File Paths Incorrectly, Breaking File and Folder Links
- Always in a "thinking" state, unable to stop.
- Mac Desktop App Window Resize Minimum Width
- MCP tool calls fail permanently after server-side session expiry (rmcp does not re-initialize on HTTP 404)
- MacOS app. Copy/pasted text from word documents are pasted into chat as an attached image.
- Local Codex Desktop sessions disappear from sidebar after restart (Windows App)
- Cloud thread reply attaches to wrong local workspace
- App becomes unresponsive with no error UI when config.toml has duplicate [mcp_servers.*] blocks
- Codex Desktop reports stale or incorrect 0.132 version while running 0.142.x
- Cannot select managed permission profile from requirements.toml if it enables network access
- Codex App blank commit message autofill ignores configured Git commit message format (creates subject-only commit)[/-]
- Windows app shows "Create git repository" for valid WSL worktrees and does not show branch in thread
- Why does it always reconnect 5 times before I start answering?
- Windows Codex App: Frequent hanging on 'Automatically compacting context' every 1-2 minutes + indefinite freeze
- Weekly Reset Rollover Bug
- Switching one thread to Full Access appears to change all active threads across projects
- Codex Desktop App hangs on every new thread on macOS, while CLI works normally