Digest / July 3, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 3, 2026
85 new issues filed ·
13 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (85)
- Regular failures of vscode extension, usually in plan mode
- Title: localeOverride and GUI language setting have no effect — UI stays English
- Codex Windows App silently exits without user action.
- Possible SOLUTION of VSCode codex extension of openai.chatgpt-26.623.81905 with apply_patch & codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe bug (Specified module could not be found.)
- Codex Desktop SSH remote PDF preview fails for valid PDFs slightly above 1 MiB
- Fork-style subagents that inherit parent context for long-running coding sessions
- Support first-class per-thread skill/plugin selection in app-server thread/start
- Chrome plugin domSnapshot fails because bundled InjectedScript lacks incrementalAriaSnapshot
- [urgent] Codex CLI shows Pro account with 100% usage remaining, but inference is blocked as Free user
- Shell snapshots can trigger credential prompts and persist secret env vars in plaintext
- macOS malware/Gatekeeper warning appears after Codex app update; codesign verification fails
- The message "To continue this session ... run codex resume, then select ..." is incorrectly colored
- Remaining quantity
- [Codex App][Windows][Rendering] CJK mixed output leaves stale fragments and desynchronizes transcript/footer redraw
- Codex Desktop auto-declines OpenAI Developers API-key destination elicitation
- Stop hook should include recent messages to enable external memory systems
- Codex desktop app file preview renders valid JSON files as a blank page.
- Codex Desktop: add project-level topics / grouped threads in the sidebar
- Support custom OTEL resource attributes
- Codex Desktop app-server writes high-volume TRACE rows to logs_2.sqlite despite RUST_LOG=warn and analytics disabled
- Codex CLI does not recognize Shift+Enter modifyOtherKeys sequence inside GNU screen
- iOS Codex Mobile permanently renders only the streamed tail (~20-30 lines) of a long assistant message; head never hydrates, desktop hydrates fine
- Windows internal shell: repeated cmd exits increase Objects\Processes and nonpaged pool
- $skill invocation resolves stale cached plugin skill from not-installed marketplace plugin
- Connecting Ollama in Codex App writes top-level model_provider + model_catalog_json, hiding OpenAI models and causing 404s for gpt-5.5
- codex resume <session-name> can resolve same-named session from another cwd
- Codex App find-in-thread result keeps re-anchoring viewport during active conversation
- Codex Desktop 26.623.101652: stream disconnected before completion during long-running task
- VS Code extension should show/filter threads by current project instead of mixing all local threads
- Windows Codex App Workspace runtime stuck as “Not installed” although Node runtime exists and Full access/network are available
- Unable to create the first thread in a project with "Full access"
- Codex GitHub code review reports usage-limit exhausted while linked dashboard shows available quota and zero review activity
- Remaining usage display
- VS Code extension diff opening feels slower than native VS Code diff
- Desktop App on Windows 26.623.101652: Unable to send message (Loading...), previous build failed with "no rollout found for thread id"
- Composer prompt refinement with optional selectable memory/context attachments
- Computer use cannot be used with Microsoft Edge (crashes)
- Codex CLI exposes raw <proposed_plan> tags in non-plan mode instead of triggering the plan confirmation flow
- Chrome backend unavailable in VS Code/API session while Codex Desktop Chrome works
- Codex Desktop Profile token usage does not increase despite local token growth and analytics diagnostics
- Codex desktop app: Simplified Chinese mistranslates Plan mode as "套餐"
- Add named permissions/approval presets for parity with built-in presets in /permissions menu
- Suspending codex-cli 0.142.5 (with Ctrl-Z) in kitty 0.32.2 leaves the terminal completely unusable
- Support argument-hint TUI preview for skill invocation
- PostToolUse cannot safely redact tool output before transcript rendering
- Windows Codex Desktop always uses retired gpt-5.3-codex model
- Codex cannot access gh
- macOS Codex desktop app: window controls are overlapped at 100% zoom
- Codex Desktop: "Failed to attach large pasted text" / Russian UI: "Не удалось прикрепить большой фрагмент вставленного текста"
- Agent can bypass user-defined hard gates for local artifact delivery and visual QA
- This model is not supported when using X-OpenAI-Internal-Codex-Responses-Lite.
- Windows Store Codex v26.623: Computer Use plugin/cache/runtime valid after EFS workaround, but session tools are not injected and node_repl is never started
- Agent can regress under pressure and violate explicit output-modality constraints
- not planned issue, will recreate
- BioRender app connector exposes search tools but backend returns "Tool ... not found"
- /status token(5h/w) limits panel disappears after switching sessions
- Codex app keeps crashing, Windows 11 Pro, 25H2, 26200.8737
- Persistent Crashes on Windows 11 Pro — Stop asking to close unresolved issues
- Create Project popup immediately closes when opened from the collapsed app sidebar
- AGENTS.md: no build command, no commit/PR conventions, gotchas scattered — measured gaps + offer to fix
- False positive cyber-abuse classification during personal job-application workflow
- Context automatically compacted / [RUINS SESSIONS] - [ CRITICAL BUG]
- Codex Desktop 26.623 still writes high-volume TRACE records to ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite on Windows
- Windows Codex Desktop appears to reinstall/start SysmonDrv v13.22; WinDbg points to SysmonDrv.sys BSODs
- close_agent can hang indefinitely on previously interrupted subagent, blocking parent thread
- Disable letter keys in tool permission asks to prevent conflicts with message enqueue
- MCP OAuth: redirect_uri changes from 127.0.0.1 during DCR to localhost during authorization
- control other computers
- macOS: compaction checkpoints re-embed screenshots until rollout hits 3.9 GB; ingestion then uses 10–20 GB RSS, causing jetsam kills and a kernel watchdog panic on a 16 GB Mac
- Provide and update message in the cli for breaking configuration changes
- Codex Desktop: multi-turn single session returns/persists a previous-topic answer for the latest turn
- Make vim mode indicator and cursor shape configurable
- Localize Windows desktop app menu bar to Simplified Chinese
- Existing threads remain blank, new threads work, intermittent SIGKILL crashes
- In-app browser port forwarding failed for localhost dev server until Codex restart
- Codex Desktop WSL-native mode hides Chrome bridge tool and passes Windows attachment paths to Linux agent
- UI Error: Codex app indicates message limit reached, even though 5 hours of the limit remain and credits are available
- MCP connection dialog: "Do not show again" does not persist
- No tool output found for tool search call
- Codex Desktop appears to consume Exec quota while idle with no visible background activity
- ChatGPT Pro account is shown as Plus in Codex CLI/TUI
- Support sanitized replacement output for ReadTool
- Model responding regardless of depleted usage limit
- Serious Feature Request: Real-Time Synchronization between Codex App and Codex Client
- Haskell Hackage in common dependencies allowlist
Resolved issues (13)
- Fork-style subagents that inherit parent context for long-running coding sessions
- Codex App find-in-thread result keeps re-anchoring viewport during active conversation
- Side chat content disappears after clicking Expand panel
- Codex Windows App silently exits without user action.
- Windows Store Codex v26.623: Computer Use plugin/cache/runtime valid after EFS workaround, but session tools are not injected and node_repl is never started
- not planned issue, will recreate
- Codex app keeps crashing, Windows 11 Pro, 25H2, 26200.8737
- Codex app keeps crashing, Windows 11 Pro, 25H2, 26200.8737
- Windows Desktop + WSL: AbsolutePathBuf errors break new sessions/plugins and archived remote threads are hidden
- Localize Windows desktop app menu bar to Simplified Chinese
- Codex usage limits desync between web Analytics and macOS app
- install.sh reports missing assets for valid releases when GitHub API rate limit is exhausted
- Codex CLI 0.142.5 completely unusable in Ghostty 1.3.1 — kitty keyboard protocol and OSC responses leak as literal text