Digest / July 13, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 13, 2026
205 new issues filed ·
35 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (205)
- macOS migration to new ChatGPT desktop app leaves Codex Projects empty despite intact local threads
- Random typos with Sol 5.6 that weren't there in GPT 5.5
- MCP App webviews leak Codex Renderer processes on thread reopen (203 widgets → +209/+216 renderers)
- Browser backends are not propagated consistently across Desktop, CLI, and collaboration subagents
- [App] Allow custom presets in the model picker power slider
- Windows ChatGPT Work freezes when continuing a regular chat into Work for the first time
- figma plugin PostToolUse hook causes 'failed to write hook stdin: Broken pipe (os error 32)' on every Write/Edit
- Codex shows an empty popup and when i click it the chatgpt popup is shown on the right with a long thread.
- Codex frequently requires restoring the network connection after almost every prompt
- macOS: Microsoft Edge extension is usable, but Codex App reports Google Chrome as not connected
- Allow users to choose the default startup page (Work or Classic Chat)
- MultiAgentV2: reserved spawn_agent schema blocks per-child model and reasoning-effort overrides
- Windows desktop app: codex app-server crashes with 0xC000001D
- Codex Desktop repeatedly crashes on macOS: CrBrowserMain EXC_BREAKPOINT/SIGTRAP in V8 code cache path
- Codex Desktop: remote plugin composer icon renders as broken image while history icon works
- Migration issues
- Valid repo skills are partially omitted from fresh session catalogs, including explicit skill invocation
- /status shows 83% of weekly limit left, but every prompt is blocked with "You've hit your usage limit. Upgrade to Plus" (already on Plus)
- can't find got 5.6 in my chatgpt desktop
- Windows Store updates reset Codex taskbar-corner / tray visibility preference
- [Windows] Codex App crashes in CrBrowserMain when Browser Use opens a page (0xC0000005 at chrome.dll+0x2e08f46)
- Windows PowerShell `$home` collision let a read-only subagent recursively delete `%USERPROFILE%`
- Codex Desktop writes custom pet ID into `tui.model_availability_nux`, breaking all task creation
- Version 26.707.61608 New version IS BROKE!
- WebStorm icon is missing from the native “Open with” context menu on macOS
- App Server TUI accumulates already-processed messages under “Messages to be submitted after next tool call”
- Restore option + space ChatGPT spawning
- Windows desktop app: enabling bundled Sites plugin causes infinite cmd.exe/node.exe spawn loop
- iTerm2 input corruption and dropped characters in Codex TUI with CSI-u/key reporting
- Codex CLI always starts with gpt-5.4 model even though different model is specified in config.toml
- Codex Desktop 26.707.51957: Markdown preview shows literal HTML breaks and omits local images
- [App/Windows] MCP/plugin subprocess groups scale linearly with active task runtimes
- [App/Windows/WSL] git-init-watcher retries permanent EISDIR on workspace root every five seconds
- Regression in Homebrew Codex CLI 0.144.1: GPT-5.6 Code Mode fails with code-mode host exited during handshake, while ChatGPT bundled CLI works
- Codex desktop task disappeared after app update even though complete local session JSONL still exists
- Windows app: pasted clipboard images spin forever in history after Temp files are deleted
- [macOS][Computer Use] launches system Chrome and leaves code_sign_clone bundles until reboot
- Sidebar webview fails to render (gray/spinner): all vscode-resource asset requests fail with net::ERR_FAILED, no service worker registered
- Allow updating Codex CLI on SSH hosts from Settings > Connections
- spawn_agent cannot bind to custom [agents.*] profiles in Codex App config.toml
- Codex Desktop: Active plan “Step X / Y” badge disappears after goal continuation or context compaction
- MultiAgentV2 is fundamentally broken as a forced runtime and should not be imposed by model metadata
- Windows/Edge: Chrome plugin update leaves locked host, partial cache, stale app-server manifest, and an uninstallable plugin
- Pro account: 5-hour usage bucket disappeared from Codex App and account/rateLimits/read
- App title-generation helper threads lack an originating-thread relationship in native OTel logs and traces
- Add a persistent “Steer by default” toggle for mid-run messages
- ClickUp connector exposes clickup_create_task_comment but backend returns "Tool ... not found"
- Codex Desktop: Window Restoration Animation Bug on macOS Sequoia
- Codex Desktop crashes in DeviceCheck/XPC when running under two macOS users with Fast User Switching
- [Windows][Codex Desktop] In-app browser repeatedly creates duplicate localhost tabs and recreates them after manual close
- [Windows Desktop][GPT-5.6 Sol] Turn stays running indefinitely after a successful tool result with no post-tool continuation
- Codex Desktop silently loses queued follow-up messages after restart
- ID 019f5a29-b15c-7fe1-b6ca-6cfe96438b40
- Allow jumping to a specific page number in the built-in PDF preview
- Existing cloud Projects and chats do not sync in ChatGPT macOS app version 26.707.61608
- [Windows] Markdown and DOCX previews fail while Review diff still works
- [Windows] In-app browser tab is detected, but browser-control tools are not exposed after app/plugin consolidation
- File-change indicator overlaps task-progress badge in Codex App
- [Windows Desktop 26.707.8479.0] New windows still fan out full conversation snapshots for every streaming thread
- Restore worktree & environment selection for Scheduled Tasks
- Make reasoning-effort levels stable and transparent for subscription users
- [CLI] gpt-5.6-sol intermittently omits terminal `]` in JSON final messages
- Show the exact expiration time and timezone on reset cards
- Windows ChatGPT Desktop fails on first launch with ENOENT (.codex-global-state.json.tmp) on Windows 11 25H2 Build 26200
- Codex Desktop: new tasks fail with "no rollout found" while existing tasks continue
- I’d like to suggest two small but useful features for Codex.
- Feature request: Support custom HTTP request headers in Codex App browser
- Unstaged code review constantly jumps about - unusable
- [Windows] Codex 26.707 cannot stage Browser runtime from EFS-protected WindowsApps files
- Codex Desktop WSL mode forwards Windows TEMP/TMP via WSLENV, breaking pytest capture on DrvFS
- macOS Desktop: shared threads can become uncontrollable, with no retry path after a network disconnect
- Windows Desktop: clicking a running task can make the entire sidebar non-interactive
- Incorrect DOM Element Highlighting After Changing Browser Zoom
- Desktop (ChatGPT.app 26.709): fanout sub-agent threads never registered in renderer — events dropped as "unknown conversation", sessions appear stuck while backend completes
- [Windows][Pet] Running activity disappears after 180s; subagent events are treated as unknown conversations
- Chrome Browser Use cannot upload local files (missing setInputFiles / fileChooser API)
- It unexpectedly went outside the specified workspace and did not follow “AGENT.md” or other fundamental constraints
- Windows desktop: shaded segment of /status rate-limit bar renders above the filled segment
- [Windows Desktop] Terminating a shell command does not kill its descendant process tree
- Chat is missing from the left sidebar
- vim mode: support for c* (change) operations
- Feature request: User-facing workflow retrospective for past Codex sessions, similar to Claude Code /insights
- Codex Windows app repeatedly gets stuck after a completed ripgrep command
- Codex CLI displayed active Plus account as Go until re-authentication
- Multi-agent V2 regression: subagent instructions are no longer observable
- Windows Codex app exits silently after Microsoft Store update scan fails
- Add `/shell` for native terminal handoff while Codex keeps working
- MultiAgentV2: send_message at a sampling boundary can leave a live subagent running but unscheduled
- Automations use UTC instead of Europe/Warsaw for next-run time
- Crash and Tasks dissapearing in project
- GPT-5.6 Sol fails to execute shell commands: code-mode host exited during handshake
- Switching between dataanalytics report and side-task views in the right panel frequently triggers an error
- Codex Desktop 0.144.0-alpha.4: agent-created project session stalls on first turn after emitting only reasoning
- Codex Desktop silently rewrites autonomy settings, causing projectless .codex EPERM prompts
- Codex App: two HTTPS-only tasks stall together for about 15 minutes, then recover
- ACP process exited unexpectedly. Exit code: -4058.
- Resumed CLI thread stalls with no first event after Codex replays multi-megabyte base64 image tool outputs
- ChatGPT VS Code extension 26.707.41301
- ChatGPT desktop app crashes when starting a new task and remains laggy after relaunch
- The ChatGPT App’s reasoning process is frequently interrupted during long-running coding tasks
- Remote Control task loading blocks on Apps/connector initialization
- Windows app package displays ChatGPT name/icon instead of Codex after update
- [Windows] Clicking a local HTML file link opens an IAB file:// webview and silently restarts the entire Codex Desktop app
- Codex App task remains in Thinking with no first response and cannot be steered
- Desktop: projectless tasks cannot be moved or recreated on an always-on remote host for scheduled automations
- Add toggle behavior for desktop pet click to show/hide ChatGPT window
- Pop-out chat content disappears while resizing the window
- Windows Codex causes system-wide memory growth through unaccounted shared/GPU memory
- Add a Toggle Rich Preview command and configurable shortcut
- GPT-5.6 Sol root exposes spawn_agent without agent_type, blocking custom agent routing
- [Windows] Computer Use turn-ended helper leaves persistent blank white desktop surface
- Personal workspace missing in macOS app
- Standalone updater can overwrite managed Codex with a self-referential symlink when CODEX_INSTALL_DIR points to standalone/current/bin
- Pop-out chat window does not display a vertical scrollbar
- [macOS] Nested rectangular rendering artifacts when restoring the ChatGPT/Codex window using the Genie effect
- Mermaid edge labels render as black rectangles in expanded preview (light theme)
- [Windows Desktop 26.707.8479.0] Concurrent subagent streams flood both renderers, then silently terminate the AppX container
- apply_patch approval review takes 68–121 seconds on windows, 16–17 ms with full access
- Five-hour Codex usage limit disappeared from Plus account; only weekly limit is shown
- [macOS] Popped-out ChatGPT window ignores zoom and window controls do not respond
- Active goals can auto-continue concurrently across app-server processes
- [Codex app] Settings > Worktrees ignores custom git-worktree-root
- Codex Remote Control on iOS shows every plugin skill twice; macOS shows one
- Suggestion — Move the "thinking intensity" control next to the model selector in the chat input area
- [Windows 26.707] Codex Desktop retains five MCP/Node process batches (147 node.exe, 13.9 GiB)
- [Windows] Codex Desktop silently exits when the in-app browser reaches DOM-ready on an external site after update to 26.707.8479.0
- [Windows 26.707.31428 trace] MCP OAuth secrets-store lock blocks thread/start for 60s
- Latest desktop version for MacOS, 26.707.62119 removes project and chat history
- Windows Codex Chrome plugin installed/enabled but native host manifest and registry key are never created
- Effective context window shrank down to 250k in win app
- Playwright Browser Discovery Fails: “No Browser Is Available”
- Projects are not loading on the new Mac interface.
- 🚨 [SEVERE REGRESSION] GPT-5.6 Sol context cut again: 353K → 258K despite advertised 1.05M
- Unable to install the sandbox
- Windows Desktop: "Finish Windows setup" never completes, preventing sandboxed edits
- Codex eats up my limit by getting stuck in compaction loops
- Shared Projects missing from ChatGPT macOS app after update
- [Codex app] Settings > Worktrees ignores custom git-worktree-root
- Persist and restore the complete workspace layout in the ChatGPT desktop app
- Chrome browser provider unavailable in Codex CLI while working in ChatGPT UI
- The ChatGPT client is incompatible with Microsoft's OpenAI API key GPT-5.6
- Allow default selection for when a ModelSafetyBufferingUpdatedNotification is received
- Codex can get stuck retrying wait after a cell ID is reported as not found
- Add an option to hide or collapse code snippets in Codex CLI progress output
- Codex CLI stalls out for no apparent reason
- Codex Desktop for Windows — patch service hangs and performs no writes in a valid multi-repo workspace
- Curated marketplace review request: Skill2
- Codex is not working
- Missing `reasoning.mode` (for `pro` mode) setting for GPT 5.6 models
- Existent annotations are lost after sending (queueing) -> editing -> adding a new note
- Proposal: include a pairing code when starting remote control
- Codex Desktop misattributes GPT-5.6 usage to GPT-5.4 and updates weekly quota with large delays
- TUI fails rendering for latex code
- Support plain HTTPS marketplace.json endpoints as plugin marketplace sources
- Codex uses 130gb of app memory
- Custom agent roles discard explicit spawn model/reasoning when the role leaves them unset
- New user prompt disappears after opening a subagent from message history in Ultra multi-agent mode
- Feature request: durable terminal-turn events for app-server clients
- Update gone bad
- Codex manual fetch fails after redirect because checksum header is only on the 308 response
- Windows Desktop: view_image cannot read an authorized workspace image when split writable roots trigger unelevated sandbox refusal
- [Rate limits] 5-hour usage window missing from /status on ChatGPT Plus
- # Windows Codex Desktop 26.707.62119 repeatedly bugchecks host (0x13A / 0xC2) when starting tasks, then loses project/sidebar mappings
- Sol Ultra spawning Codex CLI tasks (`codex exec`) because “the normal delegation UI does not provide those guarantees as precisely”
- css make text invisible
- Mac app 26.707.62119 does not sync chats, Projects or Memory while browser works normally
- Add a Chat to Task Stall
- Updated ChatGPT App doesn't display existing project containers
- Code Mode nested exec_command ignores allow rules and require_escalated on macOS
- [App 26.707.62119] Running picker exposes unsupported gpt-5.2 and hides Spark while fresh model/list shows the opposite
- Resume after rollback of compacted turn replays discarded assistant output
- Windows Desktop: browser verification requires missing `agent-browser`, while bundled Playwright is incomplete
- [macOS][Codex App][File Provider] Restored OneDrive workspaces get System Policy EPERM after cold relaunch despite valid grants
- Codex exits while processing a prompt taking credits away without doing the work
- Windows elevated sandbox fails with "helper_unknown_error", while unelevated works
- Codex stuck, no response for minutes after prompt
- Very laggy interface of new ChatGPT app instead of Codex, I'm almost stuck
- Selecting a chat reorders or disappears other chats in the folder
- Unable to use Codex in new ChatGPT app, always get Error creating task Timeout
- Codex Desktop: existing task repeatedly reverts to on-request approvals despite full-access/no-approval settings
- Codex Desktop: stale conversation state repeatedly resurfaces after correction in long-running multi-task workflow
- Codex CLI TUI erases MCP OAuth device code before opening GitHub device-login page
- WebSocket disconnects before response.completed after viewing multiple images in a long Codex CLI turn
- Show loading placeholder task and loading indicators instantly when clicking "Continue in new task"
- Codex hard to understand - bad UI
- Custom provider HTTP 500 errors are mislabeled as OpenAI high demand
- Codex Desktop’s Windows `workspace-write` sandbox creates an empty `<workspace>\.git` directory in a workspace that is not a Git repository
- Codex Desktop automation_update schema disagrees with backend (cwds vs projectId)
- [CLI] Shift+Down no longer cycles reasoning effort to Ultra
- Codex extension connected to Chrome, but control fails with Windows Sandbox error
- Flicker in the gui
- Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown doesn't reliably cycle the visible tasks
- Switching agent from WSL to Windows fails
- [Windows Desktop regression] Git writes stopped after 26.707.3748 → 26.707.6957 update; workspace-write DENY ACL blocks linked worktrees
- [macOS app] Desktop-to-desktop Remote pairing fails with “Failed to update connection” / host ID not found
- Please put decent effort into performance on the Windows App.
- [Windows 26.707.8479.0] Opening a blank in-app Browser tab immediately terminates Codex Desktop
- Windows Desktop 26.707 app-server private memory grows to 23 GB shortly after restart
- Auto-compaction uses stale token usage after tool output, causing unrecoverable context overflow
- Empty-body HTTP 400 is surfaced as codexErrorInfo: other with no status or diagnostic
- Multiple usability regressions in macOS ChatGPT desktop app
- Creating a fork is slow and then the system yanks you back to the fork when it finally appears
- "Upgraded" desktop app and lost projects
- Tasks not displayed in desktop codex/chatgpt
- Codex native install on Windows does not respond to mouse scroll or select
Resolved issues (35)
- Codex CLI hangs during MCP OAuth login when credential store is auto/keyring on Linux
- can't find got 5.6 in my chatgpt desktop
- Text flickering and overlapping when scrolling through long ChatGPT conversations in Codex Desktop
- [Codex app] Opening existing local conversations stalls 10–45s in thread/resume
- "Install Computer Use" simply does not work
- Codex app won't start
- macOS ChatGPT Desktop 26.707.51957: new task creation silently fails and leaves an orphaned sidebar entry (no rollout found), while existing tasks and CLI work
- spawn_agent cannot bind to custom [agents.*] profiles in Codex App config.toml
- Add a persistent “Steer by default” toggle for mid-run messages
- The "Show more" button in the Codex Desktop App repeatedly toggles for long messages, causing the conversation scrollbar to continuously jump.
- 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.
- Codex App on Windows WSL responding very slow compared to CLI
- [Windows] In-app browser tab is detected, but browser-control tools are not exposed after app/plugin consolidation
- Appshots shortcut and settings are missing in the latest Codex App
- Session/Thread Folders
- Codex Windows app repeatedly gets stuck after a completed ripgrep command
- Automations use UTC instead of Europe/Warsaw for next-run time
- Codex CLI 0.143.0 removes namespace separator from tool names, causing all tool calls to fail
- Restore option + space ChatGPT spawning
- [Windows] Markdown and DOCX previews fail while Review diff still works
- [Codex app] Settings > Worktrees ignores custom git-worktree-root
- 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
- Persist and restore the complete workspace layout in the ChatGPT desktop app
- Unable to Verify Phone Number for Codex Login (WhatsApp Required, SMS Not Received)
- Valid repo skills are partially omitted from fresh session catalogs, including explicit skill invocation
- macOS: Self-update removed Codex.app, official Codex download installs ChatGPT instead
- Heartbeat automations and goal resumes can downgrade thread permissions after incomplete permission snapshots
- Codex App: Queue applies follow-ups after an intermediate turn instead of waiting for task completion
- 🚨 [SEVERE REGRESSION] GPT-5.6 Sol context cut again: 353K → 258K despite advertised 1.05M
- Codex CLI 0.143.0: shell_command fails with “unsupported call: shell_commandshell_command”
- [Windows 26.707.8479.0] Opening a blank in-app Browser tab immediately terminates Codex Desktop
- Thread closes when PowerShell integrated terminal exits (Windows native agent)
- No max reasoning on Codex Windows
- Reasoning summary events can contain and render literal `<!-- -->` placeholders
- Codex Desktop Markdown preview does not render local images referenced by relative paths