Digest / July 7, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 7, 2026
80 new issues filed ·
8 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (80)
- Usage limits normalized this morning but regressed by evening, draining ~5x faster again
- Assistant reprocesses previous prompt.
- Codex cli model output rendered truncated
- Feature Request: Organize Scheduled Tasks with Tags or Categories
- 5h limits totally broken
- Forked thread token monitor over-accumulates usage after fork
- Codex App entered an infinite auto-compaction loop and consumed ~30% of my usage limit
- Windows Desktop crash/hang with codex.exe MoBEX and node_repl/extension-host BEX64 after recent update
- `unsupported call: mcp__<server>__<tool>` for MCP tools when used with custom Responses API provider (Apps SDK + custom model)
- Codex App: new task creation times out when configured MCP server is unreachable
- Macos 27 beta3 cannot submit task
- Codex app upgrade loses Superpowers plugin installed state
- Older Codex Desktop threads may not expose codex_app thread management tools
- ChatGPT Android Remote creates usable but hidden threads with `model_provider=openai` instead of host config provider
- Codex App crashes after typing `@` in the new-conversation composer
- Codex Desktop MCP instability across July 2026: tool exposure mismatch, reviewer interception, malformed MCP calls, and node_repl sandboxCwd failure
- Context compression disconnects ~85% of the time; loses pre-compression reasoning and diverts to unrelated plans
- **Title:** `codex exec` hangs indefinitely mid-run on a dead pooled connection (socket in CLOSE_WAIT, no read timeout fires, no retry) — Windows
- macOS XProtect false positive deletes the CLI native binary (npm @openai/codex 0.130.0, darwin-arm64)
- Agent Hangs when spawning new sub-agents after a long session
- Allow custom `http_headers` / `env_http_headers` on the built-in `amazon-bedrock` model provider
- Lab based Mz magnetometer Automation and sesnitivity calculations
- [Windows] Pet overlay ignores “Reduce motion: Off” when OS animation effects are disabled
- Plugin hooks fail with exit 1 for the remainder of a session after the startup marketplace auto-upgrade replaces the cached plugin version
- In-app Browser plugin works but tool discovery routes agents to standalone browser MCP sessions
- Codex Desktop does not detect expired OAuth login state for plugin apps
- Feature request: Auto-resume paused Goals when quota refreshes
- Windows Codex Desktop cannot enable Remote Control (Pairing with ChatGPT mobile fails)
- Codex Desktop Markdown preview does not render local images referenced by relative paths
- Windows Codex Desktop should support SSH remote projects to Windows OpenSSH hosts
- Desktop app should not litter ~/Documents/Codex automatically
- Codex CLI 0.142.5: app-server crashes with SIGABRT on Linux Mint 22.3
- The minimise button on the Codex desktop app doesn't work when you Zoom In
- Can't disable plan mode in the remote connection on my Android phone
- Codex TUI sometimes goes fully idle for 30-90+s after a turn completes (all threads parked, not network/lock related) — reproduces on 0.139.0 and 0.142.5
- Codex Draining Usage Without any use.
- Context-fragment tag literals are duplicated between injection and recognition sites, allowing silent drift
- Windows: Codex Desktop appears to cause unexplained system memory pressure and UI lag during local repo work
- Show the IDE Context payload attached to each message and make selected-text auto-context visible
- Codex Desktop leaks Model Set Context despite Memory disabled
- Remote-control Desktop projects missing from Mac sidebar, but remote threads are visible
- Remember Custom Review Instructions
- Codex CLI crashes with trace trap on Intel macOS 15 when gpt-5.5 triggers local tool execution
- Remote project picker cannot load folders on connected SSH host
- `codex exec`/app-server fails with "failed to lookup address information: Try again" behind DNS middleboxes that answer `AAAA` with `REFUSED` — same environment works for curl/glibc tools
- 401 Missing api.responses.write when ChatGPT auth is routed to a custom Responses API provider / ChatGPT 登录态被路由到自定义 Responses provider 时出现 401
- Windows: Codex-launched PowerShell process contains duplicate Path/PATH environment keys
- Codex App on Windows: sandbox setup fails when project folder owner is BUILTIN\Administrators
- My usage limit wasn't reset after upgrading my plan.
- Multiline paste in Codex CLI submits the first line immediately and leaves remaining lines in the input box
- Codex Desktop macOS: read_thread_terminal cannot see a working integrated terminal
- Fork from earlier turn into worktree stalls before creating child thread
- Windows Defender flags unsigned codex-computer-use.exe command line as Trojan:Win32/ClickFix.DE!MTB
- CLI trust prompt exits when split terminal Device Attributes tail is read as input
- [Desktop Linux] Codex Desktop leaves orphaned `zcode-cli` processes after app quit (no SIGHUP/SIGTERM reaping)
- Regression: No reliable way to review file changes after an agent task
- Windows Desktop WSL agent fails when CODEX_HOME is on /mnt/c due to SQLite/socket state initialization
- Codex for Open Source Pro subscription incorrectly downgraded to Free tier
- Codex Desktop leaves rollout files unindexed in state DB, including current Windows/WSL Desktop sessions
- apply_patch can modify files outside writable roots without an approval prompt
- Expose structured error data for turn/steer no-active-turn and turn-id mismatch failures
- Codex Desktop crashes randomly during Git operations on macOS
- Windows app local thread can hang Explorer/taskbar and Microsoft IME
- My Codex weekly reset appears not to have applied, or usage immediately returned to 100% with no active work.”
- Codex App annotation overlay hit targets are misaligned at 67% browser zoom
- Codex Desktop keeps using revoked ChatGPT OAuth token after logout/login
- TUI: support shell command autocomplete in `!` mode
- Windows sandbox: SSH-dependency filtering misses ~/.ssh symlinked into the workspace → machine-wide "Bad owner or permissions"
- Plugin hooks: support a per-hook name/description and show it in the hook-trust UI (currently opaque 'Hook 1..N')
- Codex mobile omits eligible desktop-host thread from remote thread list
- codex-cli 0.142.5 on macOS 26.5.1 Intel crashes when the server sends functions.exec. The crash occurs in V8 OS::SetPermissions with SIGTRAP. It reproduces with unified_exec, code_mode, and code_mode_only explicitly disabled.
- macOS: Cmd+H does not hide VS Code when Codex panel has focus
- High-frequency TRACE writes to logs_2.sqlite after restart
- High-frequency TRACE writes to logs_2.sqlite after restart
- Pro account never received promised free banked Codex reset
- Codex App fails to start on Windows with HW capability error
- Image generation returns unrelated English infographic outputs instead of the requested images
- Codex Desktop sidebar project disappears when clicked with iCloud local project and stale remote host state
- Curated-plugin startup sync corrupts the host repo when codex runs inside a git hook (inherited GIT_DIR) — isolation fix #29785 is in no release
- Windows Desktop app-server repeatedly spawns duplicate MCP stdio process pools (183 node.exe / 13GB private memory)
Resolved issues (8)
- Forked thread token monitor over-accumulates usage after fork
- Expose detailed rate-limit reset credits in Codex supported surfaces
- Codex App: View > Toggle File Tree is enabled but does not reliably reveal the file tree
- Codex temporary Rust build artifacts in /private/tmp consumed ~79GB and persisted
- Conversation interrupted - tell the model what to do differently. Something went wrong? Hit `/feedback` to report the issue
- [Desktop Linux] Codex Desktop leaves orphaned `zcode-cli` processes after app quit (no SIGHUP/SIGTERM reaping)
- CLI 0.139.0 (npm, x86_64): SIGTRAP in v8::base::OS::SetPermissions on first tool call — darwin-x64 binary missing allow-unsigned-executable-memory entitlement
- High-frequency TRACE writes to logs_2.sqlite after restart