Digest / July 10, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 10, 2026
279 new issues filed ·
44 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (279)
- Extremely slow download times for an update
- Codex Security “Start scan” times out and leaves an orphaned scan-start waiter
- Feature request: allow Chat to open in full window by default
- Codex desktop falsely reports “GitHub CLI not authenticated” on macOS
- Windows elevated sandbox delays every shell_command by ~88 seconds before process creation; unelevated is immediate
- [Withdrawn] Codex Desktop startup immediately triggers account-wide ChatGPT "Too many requests" restriction on Windows
- macOS: Codex → ChatGPT.app migration leaves stale notification path and silences completion sounds
- `enable_git_checkpoints = false` does not prevent Codex Desktop from creating `refs/codex/turn-diffs/*` references on the repository
- [App][i18n] zh-CN renders both xhigh and ultra reasoning efforts as “极高”
- Codex App: projects and chats no longer sort by last updated
- Expose built-in Chat / Quick Chat as a supported Codex skill or app-server capability
- Sending more details will cause the Codex software to freeze
- GPT-5.6 Luna resolves to a missing internal engine for non-Codex originators using ChatGPT OAuth
- [App] Advanced power slider skips Max and mixes model, reasoning, and Ultra
- Unsupported parameter: 'reasoning.summary' is not supported with the 'gpt-5.3-codex-spark' model.
- Codex Desktop 26.707.31428: Slack and Atlassian codex_apps MCP handshake times out after update
- VS Code reload re-adds closed subagents to the "background agents" count
- TUI Vim mode: ^ does not move to the first non-blank character
- Windows Remote Control gets permanently stuck in "Reconnecting..." with no way to recover remotely
- Codex App crashes when opening Archived Conversations with API key auth
- On-demand reusable prompt templates within existing conversations
- Failed to update Codex CLI from v0.144.0 to v0.144.1
- Terminal npm Codex cannot reach connected Chrome extension; app-bundled binary works
- VS Code Insiders terminal trash-can button becomes unresponsive while Codex CLI is processing
- Codex resumes from a stale conversational checkpoint after hard shutdown while VCS state is newer
- Idle SSH remote threads fail after restarting connection with `AbsolutePathBuf deserialized without a base path`
- fetch-codex-manual.mjs fails after codex-manual.md redirect drops x-content-sha256
- Codex App cannot paste ZIP archives from the clipboard
- Please Restore “Chat” as a Top-Level Feature in the ChatGPT Mac App
- Auto-recharge of credits keeps getting turned back on / is automatically selected and turned on every time you buy credits
- Windows Desktop: intermittent codex.exe 0xc0000409 crashes during work; Store update can also interrupt sessions
- Codex VS Code Extension Causes “Window Is Not Responding” After Reconnecting to or Rebuilding a Dev Container
- Support Desktop using the managed local App Server for direct mobile SSH/Tailscale control
- macOS ISO keyboard: Command+§ cannot register as a global dictation hotkey
- [App][macOS] Chinese IME input intermittently stops working until ⌘R reload
- [Desktop] Long conversations show only recent turns after update although full rollout history remains local
- Improve GPT-5.6 Ultra session-limit UX for long-running Goal/Codex workflows
- Codex App no longer shows intermediate progress or checkpoints during task execution
- Desktop app does not register any plugin tools after updating to ChatGPT powered by Codex & OWL
- Add "Expand all tool activities by default" setting for Codex VS Code extension
- Feature request: allow custom file jump handlers for IDEs and projects
- 0.144.x regression: auto-review denies explicitly authorized git push to private origin
- codex app remote task cannot choose 5.6 model
- VS Code extension intermittently reports “Codex process is not available” with gpt-5.6-sol and personality fallback warning
- Add shortcuts to step between sibling model tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna)
- The conversation history navigation markers — the small white rectangles on the right side of the main conversation pane — disappear when the left sidebar is resized to certain widths.
- Text flickering and overlapping when scrolling through long ChatGPT conversations in Codex Desktop
- Support parent/child task workflows with summarized handoffs
- [API] Config.toml = gpt-5.3-codex; silently routes to non-reasoning GPT-5.4 variants
- ChatGPT iOS Remote Codex permission prompt does not show the target file
- Retry automatically when the selected model is at capacity
- macOS: Opening a Deep Research conversation created on chatgpt.com gets stuck on "Thinking" (@ Start)
- macOS: Codex → ChatGPT.app migration leaves unified app missing from Launchpad
- Why I can not use 5.6 Sol
- macOS: visible Codex window drives WindowServer to 36–41% CPU on M4 MacBook Air
- Codex plugin directory does not explain current-client compatibility
- Agent write-through-symlink can corrupt live runtime Git into a recursive exec loop; two AMFI kalloc panics followed
- agents.max_depth = 1 permits child-to-grandchild spawning in 0.144.1
- Compaction fails with: Error running remote compact task: Request blocked.
- Usage Analytics oscillating between two different states
- The "Show more" button in the Codex Desktop App repeatedly toggles for long messages, causing the conversation scrollbar to continuously jump.
- [Critical UX regression] multi-agent v2 spawn_agent hides model overrides and rejects the default call shape
- Computer Use 1.0.1000366 crashes at launch on macOS 15.7.7 due to missing Swift Concurrency symbol
- codex attach the chatgpt conversations as the context to send
- My CodeX CLI does not have the GPT5.6 model.
- Codex Desktop session cannot be resumed or forked after successful task completion, with duplicate Guardian subagent threads exposed in conversation list
- ChatGPT Plus: Codex always attempts gpt-5.6-sol and fails
- Automatic updater replaces app-server while a parent response is still in progress
- forbidden error code 404
- Codex Desktop blocks projectless chat creation when default workspace path is a valid symlink
- Windows Desktop: opening in-app Browser can hang/close Codex after Browser Use PiP failure
- VS Code extension 26.5707.* opens blank webview on Linux; 26.5623 works but lacks 5.6-Sol
- The latest Codex update is very sluggish, especially after the Codex and GPT merge
- Windows app 26.707.31428 regression: active GPT-5.6 sessions fall back to "Custom", new sessions lose GPT-5.6 in the picker, and account/workspace state becomes inconsistent
- Spark completion still prompts model switch despite remaining spark quota
- Visualize skill saves files to workspace path, but renderer reads from ~/.codex
- [Bug] ChatGPT App screen flickering / flashing issue
- Toggle sidebar - Cmd+B - no longer works when prompt area is active
- Codex App zh-CN localization: duplicated reasoning label and untranslated menu items
- Marketplace upgrade/add leaks uncleaned `.staging/` and `marketplace-backup-*` dirs in `$CODEX_HOME/.tmp/marketplaces` (unbounded disk growth)
- The current session still has no terminal, file-reading, code-editing, or browser tools attached, so I cannot actually inspect or modify anything
- Windows sandbox runner fails with CreateProcessAsUserW 1312 after successful setup refresh
- Resume sessions with their previously used model and reasoning effort
- Context is blinking so fast
- When Shift+Tab is configured to toggle plan mode, it requires two presses while the composer is focused
- MacOS user input markdown code block render bug
- Codex App: add a global Pins view for messages, text selections, and generated files
- One-time local automation stayed ACTIVE but did not run at scheduled time
- [Codex app] Opening existing local conversations stalls 10–45s in thread/resume
- Feature request: hide the Pets menu item and add configurable prompt polishing
- Feature Request: Configurable Automatic Session Archiving
- 【BUG】(Mac, Windows) Remote Worktree Session Lost after Update to Chatgpt App
- Web Search fails with a response decoding error when using gpt-5.6-sol
- Work/Codex automatic title color is unreadable on some themes
- Windows: Settings search exposes macOS-only “Dock Icons” entry that cannot be opened
- Vs Code Codex extention not working
- Windows app repeatedly freezes on launch while synchronously hashing bundled executables on the main thread
- Opened in error — please delete
- Codex App links cannot open in browser or external browser on Windows
- Existing conversations cannot send messages until a new conversation sends its first message
- GPT-5.6 models missing from Codex Desktop model picker for Remote SSH projects
- Add secure 1Password support to the Codex integrated browser
- [Regression] Windows SSH worktree threads are not grouped under their saved project in the Codex App sidebar
- Add Phone page does not display Vietnam (+84) although VN exists in the response
- Bugs with new chatgpt codex version
- Computer Use 1.0.1000366 crashes on macOS 15.7.5 and appears to disable itself after enable
- Regression: Responses Lite makes deferred MultiAgentV1 tools unreachable because tool_search is hidden in AdditionalTools
- Appshots shortcut and settings are missing in the latest Codex App
- Regression: Windows Desktop sandbox cannot establish TLS (SEC_E_NO_CREDENTIALS), causing dotnet restore NU1301
- Codex Desktop crashes after a subagent approval card becomes unresponsive
- macOS upgrade removes standalone Codex app before verifying whamAccess entitlement, leaving no GUI access to Codex
- Project sidebar stuck showing unread tasks with no visible filter reset
- The Russian-language UI extends beyond the window boundaries
- Codex app crashes when embedded browser opens WebCodecs/canvas-capable pages
- False positive: GPT-5.6 Sol incorrectly flagged a normal Codex request as cybersecurity activity
- [Annoyance] Codex App and ChatGPT App use the same Icon, causing confusion
- High CPU usage on Windows desktop app compared to Claude Code
- Frequently trigger security check and block workflow
- Credits that should refresh every 5 hours do not fully refresh; the app gets stuck and wastes credits
- Orchestrated multi-agent mode PoC
- GPT-5.6 Code Mode omits tool_search from exec, degrading deferred MCP discovery
- [Windows][ChatGPT Desktop] Cloud ChatGPT projects are missing from the Projects view
- shared /tmp directory full trigger kconsole instantly exit without any signs
- Post-merge ChatGPT/Codex app regression: context usage donut missing again
- Unified ChatGPT/Codex macOS app omits generated file attachments visible on the web
- Usage resets not working
- Windows app mangles extended WSL UNC file links (`\\?\UNC\...` → `/?/UNC/...`)
- [Regression] Codex Remote SSH WebView spins Code Helper (Renderer) at 100-200%; Service Worker reset is temporary
- [Windows App][ru-RU] Usage modal and session status pill clip localized text at 100% scaling
- The credit reset failed. It showed that I had insufficient quota again immediately after the reset.
- Windows Desktop scans saved but inactive large Git repositories with ls-files --others, causing high CPU
- About effort option
- Please add remote-control feature and fix the mojibake issue
- Codex Desktop approval redesign removes decline-and-instruct option
- Codex app freezes when adding chats to a task
- [Feature Request] Add Chinese (zh-CN) language support in settings
- [App] API-key custom providers skip remote model refresh, hiding GPT-5.6 from the picker
- unable to create thread in codex desktop
- Windows Codex app: `apply_patch` can add files but fails to update/delete with `apply deny-read ACLs`
- Session/Thread Folders
- Subagent pane not showing model, reasoning level, and messages from orchestrator
- Add skill organization: categories, hierarchy, enable/disable, and profiles
- Bug Report: Rollout Log Size Explosion from Unbounded Base64 Image Data
- Usage limits show inconsistent percentages across sessions (99% vs 89%)
- Feature request: unified Work/Codex entry point with full ChatGPT Project access
- “Collapse all projects” button and project sorting by recent changes.
- Regression: gpt-5.3-codex-spark falls back to image-capable unknown-model metadata after 0.144.0 catalog update
- Windows Store Codex UI becomes unusable after changing a setting in the Codex Settings panel
- apply_patch not working
- Broken translation on usage screen
- Windows Codex App: WSL Agent Environment fails when ChatGPT Desktop is installed on a non-system drive
- Remove manual approval of "Keep Waiting" (auto-accept waiting extra time)
- Windows Codex Desktop: Computer Use fails before first action because node_repl crashes
- macOS: window traffic-light controls are clipped in Codex desktop app
- CLI: add /color for per-session input-bar colors
- CLI: show the /rename thread title on the input bar
- no-active-thread-019f4bd5-4fb1-73f3-b5b8-8deec5d13bdf
- Codex Desktop disappeared after updating and was replaced by ChatGPT Desktop without the Codex workspace
- Latest CLI does not support gpt-5.6-sol
- [VS Code] Shift+Tab no longer toggles Plan Mode after the latest Codex extension update
- MCP re-init loop on Stop-hook path hangs `codex exec` until timeout when an MCP server fails to start (effort-correlated)
- Windows setup fails before the UAC prompt, and both setup options are non-functional
- Codex Desktop 26.707: opening side dialog triggers browser-sidebar rebind loop and React #185 error boundary
- macOS German QWERTZ: global dictation hotkey swaps Y and Z
- image_gen returns image data in session records but no image is shown, saved, or exposed as a path
- Windows/WSL2: Desktop retains one eager MCP stack per opened chat and replays history during navigation
- Codex app (new ChatGpt app) broken after big update
- no-active-thread-019f4c0d-c2b1-75f3-8f78-712ffeb0176c
- [Windows app] Hebrew RTL/BiDi replies are left-aligned and mixed LTR text becomes unreadable
- Didnt show percent ussage
- Add “Ask ChatGPT” action when selecting text in assistant responses on macOS
- ChatGPT Desktop Fails to Launch When Stale Codex Processes Lock the SQLite State Database
- Perceived regression in Codex quality and higher token consumption with GPT-5.6
- GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra exit OpenClaw scheduled research tasks before calling web search; GPT-5.5 completes the same workflow
- Pet re-sizer missing
- Remote Control enrollment never completes on Windows
- Cross-task delegated turns ignore visible Full Access until direct user input
- Sort by "Last updated" broken in new ChatGPT macOS App
- Windows unelevated sandbox fails because runtime adds split writable roots for workspace and special temp directories
- Explicit-only skill activation is lost after compaction in long-running tasks
- TUI /goal recognizes $skill tokens but persists them as inert objective text
- Codex ships its own RG version which triggers MacOS safety standards
- ChatGPT/Codex Desktop 26.707 regression: per-thread relative timestamps disappeared from sidebar
- Desktop: propagate account/token changes to active threads and retry stale-auth limit failures
- Exceeded Eetry Limit, last status: 429 Too Many Requests
- Computer Use helper 26.708.1000366 crashes on macOS 15.7.4 due to missing Swift runtime symbol
- Codex quota drains extremely fast after ChatGPT update when generating large PPT content
- Codex App: text-log attachment can trigger “Request blocked” and poison subsequent turns
- Massive lag and stuttering on new Windows ChatGPT app
- Windows 11 constant 1-4MB/s disk usage when any chat window is shown and IDLE, goes back to expected 0 when looking at other windows (plugins, scheduled, etc)
- Windows Codex app creates duplicate unclosable Security workspaces
- Security guard rails triggering in C code
- Recent Codex task missing from history after new ChatGPT desktop update
- Codex Desktop Windows+WSL creates in-app browser WebView despite wsl-disabled and spams git-repo-watcher EISDIR
- Windows app sandbox hangs for every child process; packaged codex.exe returns Access is denied
- ChatGPT iOS - Remote Mode renders thinking text in bold italic
- Homebrew codex-app cask is outdated after Codex.app was renamed to ChatGPT.app
- GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra is horrible
- Event-driven wakeup when background exec sessions complete
- Codex CLI rejects gpt-5.6 with ChatGPT auth despite availability in ChatGPT apps
- Title: Desktop app: pasting code breaks composer
- Surface server-declined service tiers (Fast mode silently falls back to standard in codex exec)
- ChatGPT desktop app (26.707.31428, build 5059) OOMs on every launch — reproduces with fresh install, recreated state, offline
- Windows elevated sandbox: detached ReadAclsOnly codex-windows-sandbox-setup.exe helpers never exit after completing their work — each busy-spins ~25% of a core and they accumulate per command
- Show 5-hour and weekly usage limits in the Codex App status area
- Terminal hangs every time Codex update is available
- Regression: Desktop 26.707 replays legacy thread history and emits 1,282 parse errors per page, freezing the Windows UI
- MCP server stdio command path resolution uses wrong bundle path when app is installed as ChatGPT.app
- TUI /subagents does not show picker when working on tasks (Ultra mode)
- MCP server stdio command path resolution uses wrong bundle path when app is installed as ChatGPT.app
- MultiAgentV2: followup_task to a non-child descendant reports completion to its spawn parent, leaving the requester's wait_agent blocked
- Add exact per-code-block copy actions to Codex CLI responses
- Allow users to disable dark pattern popups to "Switch to fast mode"
- Invalid Value: 'tools'. Function 'image_gen.imagegen' conflicts with a hosted tool in the same request
- [Codex Web] Cloud tasks stall at “Running setup scripts” before custom setup script begins
- [Regression] Computer Use crashes on macOS 15 due to missing Swift Concurrency symbol
- Codex App
- Allow /model command to send model name and effort
- Ctrl+T transcript diff leaves stale glyphs when source lines contain tabs
- Bug: Background and non-selected Codex sessions freeze; only the visible conversation continues running
- @b STALL
- Allow users to queue one banked usage reset for automatic redemption when a usage limit is exhausted
- ProcessHandle::terminate aborts its only child waiter
- MCP servers configuration not available in Settings UI
- Native async wake/sleep mechanism for long-running agent loops
- App-server daemon restart stalls on an unreaped zombie after update
- Codex CLI unexpectedly switches from gpt-5.6-terra/max to gpt-5.6-luna/low after “Conversation interrupted”
- Auto code reviews continue with Auto review disabled and consume main model usage
- GPT-5.6 classifiers interrupt legitimate blue-team work and Codex App becomes operationally unusable
- Persistent Dev Services Panel for Desktop Projects
- Codex CLI 0.144.1 sandboxed commands hang, but the exact bwrap probe completes in 47 ms
- ChatGPT Codex App is not Working!
- Atlas browsing functionality not in new app
- Add option to record shell commands in $HISTFILE
- Polish localization mistranslates "5-hour usage limit" as "5-week usage limit"
- Automation card says 12 AM while the stored task runs at 3 AM
- After all this time and my first bug issue on the matter, if I set to full access after the first prompt to trigger the prompt loop it sill requests permission
- Chrome plugin hardcodes standard Google Chrome and cannot use Chrome for Testing or Chromium on macOS
- After all this time and my first bug issue on the matter, if I set to full access after the first prompt to trigger the prompt loop it sill requests permissions. (fix it once and for all)
- TUI hangs forever at 'Loading MCP (x/y)' when 'resume --remote' has -c mcp_servers.* overrides the app-server doesn't have
- macOS Codex App repeatedly resets healthy Remote Control streams with "stream became unknown" and sequence gaps
- Codex Remote silently disconnects after ~2 hours with no error
- Slash Command Interface UI Bug
- All market automation is banned now?
- max_threads not working since gpt-5.6(-sol)
- sub-agent work SUPER SLOW
- cannot finish Windows setup to continue
- App-scoped composer dictation shortcut should support tap-to-toggle and hold-to-talk
- GPT-5.6 Sol Medium depletes Pro 5-hour usage allowance extremely quickly
- Regression in gpt-5.6 (Luna/Terra): models hallucinate image_gen completion
- New Codex just started acting like the old one, letting yall know when I noticed the obvious behavior change
- CRITICAL: Every single time on started codex, crash my router while codex "initialized: codex_apps"
- Make turn/steer retries idempotent by clientUserMessageId
- Codex starts and wants more permissions. It hangs and doesn't allow me to move further. Codex is a bricked.
- Codex Desktop archives and aborts a regular task while it is monitoring an open PR
- macOS app beachballs on launch, never creates a window — persists on 26.623 (latest), Apple Silicon
- Remote browser tabs should resolve localhost to the remote host or support port forwarding
- “Rename task” command is missing from the command palette
- Banked reset please for New Zealand
- Dictations silently fail if longer than 10 minutes
- Allow the models to retrieve user and assistant messages from the current thread after compaction for richer context
- codex exec: internal tool-call traces + cross-session memory-search transcripts leak into stdout (Windows)
- view_image rejection on text-only models poisons model output — all subsequent turns return last_agent_message: null
- New "ChatGPT" app: agents are very slow
- Empty HTML comments displayed in intermediate TUI updates
- Subagent inspector does not show the task delegated by the parent agent
- Codex Desktop Find in task reports No matches for visible thread text
- @remote tasks created from ChatGPT iOS do not appear in the Project task list on desktop, but are searchable
- Standalone Codex conversations disappear after upgrading to new ChatGPT desktop app, but local session database is intact
- Broken Open Graph URL/Image on X
- Limits erroneously drawn to 0% in less than a few minutes when not using codex
- Chatgpt can't be installed with MS Store
- Codex Desktop 26.707 cannot continue session: UUID input item rejected; CLI resume works
- Subagents panel no longer shows each agent’s model or reasoning effort
- macOS Computer Use returns blank wrong-sized capture on sole external display and times out for LSUIElement apps
- Scheduled Tasks created in macOS Desktop don't sync with Web/iOS
- Expected a base64-encoded data URL with an image MIME type
- Tool-backed Codex Desktop ignores prompt model steering and cannot select named custom agents
- [Windows] Global dictation overlay cannot be repositioned and covers screen content
Resolved issues (44)
- Locked Computer Use fails with cgWindowNotFound on Mac mini M4 + Studio Display
- Locked Computer Use authorization plug-in is registered but rejected by macOS SecurityAgentHelper Library Validation
- Codex App: projects and chats no longer sort by last updated
- Codex Desktop 26.707.31428: Slack and Atlassian codex_apps MCP handshake times out after update
- Terminal npm Codex cannot reach connected Chrome extension; app-bundled binary works
- Codex App cannot paste ZIP archives from the clipboard
- Please Restore “Chat” as a Top-Level Feature in the ChatGPT Mac App
- 5.6 not available on remote ssh
- [macOS 26.707.31123] Right Command global dictation no longer works after Codex → ChatGPT integration
- Plan mode regression
- Desktop app does not register any plugin tools after updating to ChatGPT powered by Codex & OWL
- Codex App remote project conversations disappear from local sidebar, but still exist on the remote server
- 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
- codex app remote task cannot choose 5.6 model
- Add shortcuts to step between sibling model tiers (Sol, Terra, Luna)
- Windows Codex app Chrome plugin fails with CreateProcessAsUserW failed: 5
- MacOS user input markdown code block render bug
- Opened in error — please delete
- Vs Code Codex extention not working
- High CPU usage on Windows desktop app compared to Claude Code
- Excessive disk writes / SSD wear concern on macOS Codex app and JetBrains ACP
- [Windows App][ru-RU] Usage modal and session status pill clip localized text at 100% scaling
- Pasting emoji crashes Codex app on macOS
- Resets status, expiration date, etc.
- 【BUG】(Mac, Windows) Remote Worktree Session Lost after Update to Chatgpt App
- no-active-thread-019f4bd5-4fb1-73f3-b5b8-8deec5d13bdf
- Latest CLI does not support gpt-5.6-sol
- MCP re-init loop on Stop-hook path hangs `codex exec` until timeout when an MCP server fails to start (effort-correlated)
- Codex app freezes when adding chats to a task
- Windows unelevated sandbox fails because runtime adds split writable roots for workspace and special temp directories
- Linux Codex CLI cannot use GPT-5.6 models while macOS works with the same Codex version (0.144.0)
- GPT-5.6 models get no tools in read-only sandbox (codex exec -s read-only says it has no shell/file tools)
- view_image fails to read local images on Windows with apply deny-read ACLs
- GPT 5.6 Sol Ultra is horrible
- MCP server stdio command path resolution uses wrong bundle path when app is installed as ChatGPT.app
- Dropdown text overflows after selecting “CMD + Enter for multiline prompts” in “Send shortcut” setting
- Web Search fails with a response decoding error when using gpt-5.6-sol
- [Regression] Computer Use crashes on macOS 15 due to missing Swift Concurrency symbol
- After all this time and my first bug issue on the matter, if I set to full access after the first prompt to trigger the prompt loop it sill requests permission
- max_threads not working since gpt-5.6(-sol)
- Regression in gpt-5.6 (Luna/Terra): models hallucinate image_gen completion
- Codex starts and wants more permissions. It hangs and doesn't allow me to move further. Codex is a bricked.
- Subagent inspector does not show the task delegated by the parent agent
- Spark model rejects reasoning.summary with unsupported_parameter