Digest / July 4, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 4, 2026
61 new issues filed ·
6 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (61)
- [Bug] Editor freezes when using "@" to search/mention
- Codex VSCode IDE extension crash when given prompt to test MCP tools
- Codex.app surfaces internal CodexDark asset layer as macOS app icon
- Windows native sandbox: Git HTTPS remote operations fail/crash inside Codex but work in normal PowerShell
- Thread store resolves stale session_index entries to missing rollout files (state db returned stale rollout path)
- Add browser history introspection to Codex App browser automation
- iOS Codex cannot connect to any Windows host: CodexAppServer.CodexClientError (Error 11)
- New window cannot select question options after opening a new chat window (Desktop Windows)
- Windows Desktop: Browser/Computer Use show unavailable in Settings while runtime bootstrap succeeds
- Codex Desktop keeps running Git turn-diff snapshot tasks on stale repos/worktrees and repeatedly fails, likely contributing to window instability
- Codex Desktop keeps auto-retrying an auth-failed stale SSH connection instead of backing off cleanly
- Add a universal “Send to Chat” action(shortcut & DragDrop for selected code, terminal output, files, and images
- mark threads as unread manually
- feat: re-add Chat Completions API support for non-OpenAI providers
- Add Chinese (zh-CN) UI localization support
- Codex Desktop Windows sandbox helper fails on Windows 11 Home Chinese.
- Codex surfaces should be aware of available IDE integrations
- Surface the offered tool + skill/slash-command catalog in the `--json` event stream
- Proposal: add event-driven one-shot waits for local path changes
- Codex Desktop renderer crashes after subagent wait with React #185 and unknown conversation state
- Severe performance regression on the [$imagegen] skill in Codex App, GPT5.5 need investigation & fixes
- Codex Windows desktop app freezes when Goal contains raw LaTeX backslashes
- Codex desktop repeatedly crashes in CrBrowserMain with EXC_BREAKPOINT at temporal_rs_PlainDateTime_hour on macOS 26.6
- Windows app update hides existing CLI session from sidebar while transcript remains in CODEX_HOME sessions
- Every time I press the Esc key in Codex CLI to exit the current query, the CLI automatically scrolls down from the very start of the conversation to the most recent part of the dialogue.
- [CLI] GPT-5.5 forces MultiAgentV2 despite disable and hides documented custom-agent controls
- Codex Desktop App — Frequent Crash Report
- Codex App: Windows Desktop goal compaction resumes from older manual steer before active goal checkpoint
- Codex VS Code extension drops sometimes follow-up prompt submitted while agent is still running
- CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 1920
- codex app cannot send any new messages
- Codex App diff view should keep file list collapsed by default
- Feature request: add an in-chat turn minimap with summaries and changed files
- Feature request: Find option / Ctrl+F (or alternative) for Codex Chat in VS Code
- A Major Codex Pain Point (Very Urgent!) (Before context auto-compaction is triggered, users cannot start a new conversation based on the current one)
- Codex Desktop: @ tool/plugin picker is very slow with many installed tools and plugins
- Computer Use screenshot capture fails on Windows 10 with SetIsBorderRequired failed
- Feature request: Show countdown time until rate limit reset in /status
- Remote Control fails with error " couldn't check security requirements " due to Cloudflare-HTML-challenge
- Codex desktop writes high-frequency TRACE logs to ~/.codex/logs_2.sqlite despite RUST_LOG=warn
- Codex macOS app crops image previews, showing only the top portion
- VS Code extension and CLI crash with SIGTRAP during repository review ("Custom tool call output is missing")
- Codex mobile can open the same VS Code thread as a concurrent assistant/tool lineage while a turn is active
- Windows Codex Desktop crashed during in-app Browser use; bundled Browser plugin cache refreshed and old path disappeared
- Linux Codex CLI remote-control registers successfully but ChatGPT Android fails with "Remote-control pairing session not found"
- Configurable TUI status bar fields for model, effort, context, and rate-limit usage
- Codex Desktop thread tools intermittently lose handlers and may create systemError worker threads after create_thread failure
- Add ability to Annotate Documents in Sideview
- Codex Desktop crashes/restarts when opening /abs/path/E:/... Markdown file with default Windows app
- RFC: Need a standardized way to show different AGENTS.md files and/or content to different agents
- Hitting codex quota block although quota limit is not met
- Sync terminal title with thread name, and update it immediately on rename
- Sudden 80%→0% Codex usage drop on Pro plan, unaddressed by support (recurrence of "Codex Usage Limits Depleting Faster Than Expected")
- Codex Windows Desktop shows thread messages in reversed or scrambled order after restart
- Codex App usage drops from ~90% to depleted after small task with 3 subagents
- VS Code extension queued follow-up messages sometimes disappear before transcript delivery
- Show per-subagent usage, model, and reasoning settings in Codex App
- Feature request: UI export/import for portable Codex profile across Macs
- Add per-message and per-conversation token/quota usage display in Codex Desktop app
- Log level not configurable - logs_2.sqlite grows to 1.4GB with hardcoded TRACE
- Codex insanely slow at 3 chats + sub-agents
Resolved issues (6)
- 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.)
- feat: re-add Chat Completions API support for non-OpenAI providers
- Proposal: add event-driven one-shot waits for local path changes
- Windows app update hides existing CLI session from sidebar while transcript remains in CODEX_HOME sessions
- Usage runs out much faster than normal & abnormal context window usage
- Show per-subagent usage, model, and reasoning settings in Codex App