Digest / July 14, 2026
Codex Issues Digest — July 14, 2026
246 new issues filed ·
33 resolved in openai/codex (UTC day).
New issues (246)
- Windows App: WSL switch fails during provisioning, then hides history returned by thread/list
- Codex desktop crashes when opening a thread with a 203 MB patch_apply_end deletion event
- Codex Desktop treats review-only feedback as authorization to edit workspace files
- Codex Desktop removes the feedback affordance when a user stops an unsafe tool turn
- Codex Remote Control push notifications not delivered on iOS
- Command /subagents does not show the interactive sub-agent thread picker
- Model exposes system prompt instruction 'Inform the user' in output after update
- Support for RTL (Right-to-Left) layout and Persian language
- Locked use fails for manual Computer Use turn started from trusted phone/SSH connection
- Launching another VS Code Codex window terminates Full access in the existing window (error 1312)
- Windows legacy sandbox can delete files outside writable roots through parent FILE_DELETE_CHILD
- Automatically trigger renaming after forking a session with a custom name
- Windows desktop renderer reloads and resets active ChatGPT/Codex conversation after latest update
- Codex App: rank @ file and folder suggestions by reference frequency
- Sandbox-denied operation can run through an MCP tool's remote executor without a new approval
- Request to investigate and restore Codex usage consumed by repeated instruction-following failures
- Goal context is discarded during compaction, breaking objective continuation
- Codex Desktop: assign stable live sequence numbers and deep links to activity items
- Codex Desktop 26.707.71524: Browser and Chrome plugins fail with `Cannot redefine property: process`
- [Windows] Codex launches ChatGPT.exe processes but the desktop UI does not appear after Windows updates
- [Bug][macOS 26.707] Worktree mode selector missing from new-task composer; task starts in local checkout
- [Codex App] Unarchive button overlaps long Chinese message content
- Codex Cli and Desktop do not follow Programming Skills Created - Does not make make new code data, paths, names, artifacts db-owned as required
- optional continue-working mode after user steering
- Request to investigate and restore Codex usage consumed by repeated instruction-following failures
- macOS: local network access stays blocked after denying the first prompt, even with the permission enabled in System Settings
- macOS: bundled Chrome plugin fails with `Cannot redefine property: process` in browser-client.mjs
- Built-in Browser plugin fails to initialize with “Cannot redefine property: process”
- Chrome/Browser plugin 26.707.71524 fails to import in node_repl: Cannot redefine property: process
- Image generation ("Codex Image 2") fails with generic "network request failed" — root cause is sandbox setup failing to create/init dedicated Windows accounts (CodexSandboxOnline/Offline)
- Codex Desktop 26.707.71524: Browser and Chrome plugins fail with "Cannot redefine property: process"
- Release builds emit an unused_mut warning in app-server
- Remote Control: archived tasks on a connected host are not visible in Codex Desktop
- macOS ChatGPT app Browser control fails: Cannot redefine property: process
- [macOS App] Restored tasks fan out plugin MCP servers (~30x) and crash/reload the renderer
- Codex CLI fails to paste valid CF_DIB/CF_DIBV5 images from the Windows clipboard
- Codex Desktop loses initial prompt when primary-runtime sync restarts app-server during turn startup
- Codex app Chrome browser-client fails during ESM evaluation: Cannot redefine property: process
- Trusted Access approval not recognized: account newly flagged and authorized security responses blocked after approval
- Desktop app hides task interruption/stall, making an inactive Codex run appear to still be working
- Windows Codex: new active threads disappear in a project with ~120+ threads; archiving old threads fixes it
- [macOS] Chrome plugin bootstrap fails with "Cannot redefine property: process" in node_repl
- Windows updater ignores GITHUB_TOKEN and fails when unauthenticated GitHub API quota is exhausted
- [macOS] Chrome and Browser plugins fail during bootstrap: Cannot redefine property: process
- Strengthen password reset security by requiring additional account ownership verification
- Browser: Bootstrap fails due to Node REPL process shim conflict
- Remote control: certain sessions do not appear in the remote control app
- Skill Creator scripts fail to read UTF-8 SKILL.md files on Windows non-UTF-8 locales
- Add manual .plugin file installation to the Codex desktop GUI
- Bundled spreadsheets plugin emits invalid icon path warnings on every startup
- Feature request: allow skills or user commands to declare the model used for their invocation
- Codex CLI：gpt-5.6-sol ultra fast Freeze
- [App] Allow agent thread search to include archived tasks
- Linux/macOS installer ignores GH_TOKEN/GITHUB_TOKEN for release metadata
- Remote/mobile thread routing breaks with two macOS users on one Mac using Fast User Switching
- Unable to Start Creating a Pet
- Add a supported host-font configuration for bundled LibreOffice and Poppler runtimes
- Projects in previous version is not appearing under projects in the new version
- Unable to connect to the Chrome browser after updating Codex
- VS Code IDE extension repeatedly disconnects and retries streaming requests after GPT-5.6 rollout
- Banked reset announced for all accounts is missing from my account
- Active goal auto-resume after an unclean restart leaves interrupted lifecycle state and diverges from persisted goal status after context-full retries (autogen selfreport from codex)
- [Windows][CLI 0.144.3] Codex silently exits while waiting on a tool after successful auto-compaction / PostToolUse activity
- [Windows][Codex App 26.707.9564.0] app-server restarts and cancels MCP tasks during multi-server cold start without a crash diagnostic
- [Windows][Mobile] Turns completed from Codex mobile are missing from the Desktop transcript
- Codex VS Code extension loses chats after updates and freezes over Remote SSH
- No Codex reset available and subscription update fails on Pro 5x during Build Week
- ChatGPT Desktop sends unsupported reasoning.summary parameter to GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
- Codex Desktop fork aborts duplicated active turn while parent rollout completes, hiding the reply
- Codex App: 'Approve for me' no longer displays Auto-review rationale
- Windows composer enables before turn completion; immediate follow-up is dropped
- App update leaves the previous app-server daemon running
- Feature request: expose willRetry in codex exec --json error events
- macOS desktop polls Git for historical workspaces while idle (~3.6 git processes/sec, 6–8% CPU)
- ChatGPT Codex HTTP/SSE can emit zero events for 600s; identical retry completes in seconds (gpt-5.6-sol)
- [Release blocker] Backport #32749: stable Codex breaks model-routed subagent plugins
- Responses are slow and often get stuck
- Codex Desktop 26.707: Browser and Chrome bootstrap fail with 'Cannot redefine property: process'
- IDE extension should log an actionable error when the webview fails with ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES
- Codex CLI: add persistent self-healing monitor workflows for long-running jobs
- Automatically track the highest-priority active task with desktop pets
- Windows setup cannot complete (UAC never appears)
- [Windows desktop] "Add to task" reference leaves task stuck while VS Code completes
- Codex desktop app task appears running but is actually stuck; duplicate MCP/app child processes accumulate
- App crash due to huge python operation run by codex consuming large amount of memory and CPU
- CLI doesn't monitor launched subagents, but doies not know if cannot do so / lies about it
- Prevent Codex from invalidating active user auth while running production QA
- Browser and Chrome plugins fail at bootstrap: TypeError Cannot redefine property: process
- Multi-agent V2 regression: resumed root sessions cannot resume existing subagents
- Codex Desktop 26.707.71524 loses all Workspace Tasks after upgrade while local sessions remain intact
- Chrome plugin crashes before browser discovery with “Cannot redefine property: process”
- Allow users to disable inline ghost suggestions in Codex CLI
- Issue
- Let Codex on macOS send a notification to ChatGPT on iPhone when explicitly asked
- Referenced chats (@-mention) injects entire prior conversation as a single message — permanent renderer freeze on every launch + unrecoverable compact deadlock
- Codex App: add a slash-menu filter to show only user-installed Skills
- Shell commands hang for several minutes or abort in Codex session while same commands run instantly locally
- Getting 400 error in one of my session ["invalid_request_error"]
- [macOS] Ambient Suggestions silently controls Chrome and leaves debugger attached after completion
- [Bug]: Codex CLI no longer reads custom providers after recent upgrade
- [App][macOS] “Files and folders” picker cannot select folders
- Windows Desktop freezes on large chats and restored threads disappear from sidebar
- I spent my usage waiting for Tibo’s 7M reset, but the reset never came
- Codex Desktop on macOS: image-input turns take 130s cold / 45s warm before a trivial response
- Proposal: Add PermissionDecision hook observability
- Codex project threads hang after image2 writes huge C2PA/image payloads into turn events
- skill-creator quick_validate.py still fails without undeclared PyYAML dependency
- Unable to See or Select gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna in Windows App
- Large-context Codex Desktop tasks can remain silent for 9–32 minutes at model response boundaries
- Windows ChatGPT desktop app is a major usability regression for professional users
- [Google Drive plugin] Local image sidecar fails in batch_update_document with "Expected list but got dict"
- Chrome plugin fails to initialize with `Cannot redefine property: process` on Windows desktop app
- Codex Desktop should not block custom-provider sessions on chatgpt.com metadata timeouts
- Panel stuck on the logo after an in-place extension update: stale VS Code webview service-worker cache (root cause + workaround; likely explains #15975 / #28280 / #32388)
- Codex App can render reasoning snippets after the final assistant response
- Codex VS Code: all remote plugin thumbnails are missing in chat sessions on Windows
- Codex Desktop: exec cell hangs for 3,806s after nested shell completed in 0.2s; timeout/yield did not return control
- CLI freezes on FocusGained in Zellij while requerying terminal palette
- n way to set new quick chat deafult model and reasoning.
- agents.max_threads=6 but Codex Desktop runtime is capped at 4
- How is this even possible?
- VS Code extension 26.707: streaming warning loop repeatedly crashes renderer with SIGILL on Linux
- macOS: Window restore animation stutters when reopening a minimized Codex window with Camera Effects enabled
- Item {id} of type 'message' was provided without its required 'reasoning' item
- Windows ChatGPT/Codex 26.707: ~3.4s orchestration overhead per local tool call after desktop app migration
- ChatGPT Desktop: Every new Codex task fails with "no rollout found for thread id"
- Codex VS Code extension hangs in WSL while stuck on “Installing”
- Codex code review silently fails on initial trigger (no 👀) but succeeds on retry minutes later
- Windows app: terminal commands hang indefinitely after severe workspace performance degradation
- Codex Desktop built-in image_gen: byte-identical prompt can succeed in 26–87 seconds or fail after 265 seconds with a generations network error
- CLI can wait 300s before detecting a silent Responses stream, causing repeated 5-10 minute stalls
- macOS: Cmd+Q no longer shows a confirmation dialog before quitting
- GPT 5.6 kept looping web agent non-stop
- Codex Remote mobile-created tasks ignore the host model provider and offer no provider selection
- Projectless scheduled tasks ignore network-enabled sandbox settings
- [RELEASE] The pipeline that releases to WinGet seems broken
- Codex projects disappeared after updating ChatGPT Desktop to 26.707.72221 on Windows
- Codex desktop crashes with SIGTRAP after accumulating NetworkConfigWatcher threads
- Codex panel stays loading indefinitely, again
- Fedora44 - codex exension hangs at startup in VSCode sometimes
- Codex Desktop emits a second user-visible response after a late subagent completion
- Add a search field for chats in the New ChatGPT (Work & Codex)
- Plugin MCP server keys with hyphens are listed but not exposed as callable tools
- Unable to send message
- bwrap: Can't mount devpts on /newroot/dev/pts: Permission denied
- Dock the iOS Simulator preview in a Codex App side panel
- [Windows][CLI 0.144.3/0.144.4] Long-running concurrent sessions stall after tool calls; rollback to 0.144.1 restores normal operation
- [Bug] Chat title overlaps with underlying chat text when sidebar is collapsed
- Pro Lite account receives 272K context profile for gpt-5.6-sol instead of bundled 372K
- "Reasoning" has absolutely tanked since July 13th updates: chatGPT, Codex, app & Web - across the board.
- Codex App: make Pull Requests navigation provider-agnostic and configurable
- Cannot revert to original plan after one-month hackathon Pro 5x benefit expires
- [Windows] Elevated sandbox fails with `CreateProcessWithLogonW failed: 1168` when the Codex sandbox profile has a broken `ProfileList` / `.bak` state
- Windows Codex app causes mouse stutter during startup and task switching without CPU/Disk saturation
- Codex desktop app on Windows is causing high CPU and severe device heating after launch.
- [app] Project sorting controls do not change the sidebar project order
- Opening a generated file resets the conversation to the original attachment instead of preserving the current reading position
- Persistently display whether each conversation uses ChatGPT Work or Codex
- Conversation history was lost between the ChatGPT Web and Desktop applications
- Azure OpenAI: `/model` selector does not preserve Azure deployment names
- Generated spreadsheet attachments cannot be downloaded from the ChatGPT/Codex desktop application
- Codex Windows app: "New task" outside a project crashes the UI
- VS Code custom permission profile overrides on-request/auto_review with never/user
- auto_review fails: "supported models are deepseek-v4-pro/flash, but codex-auto-review passed"
- [app] Computer Use Picture in Picture cannot open the active browser session and double-click wakes the pet
- Feature Request: Separate Chat History Between ChatGPT and Codex
- App Crashes When Opening Settings
- Windows Desktop freezes when resuming a task that is waiting for approval while Android Remote Control can continue normally
- Windows: Codex can remain active with no progress after tool or stream boundaries
- Perpetual "You're out of Codex messages" banner for months
- Allow spawn_agent to explicitly select a configured custom agent
- Codex Desktop repeatedly disconnects when analyzing images; still reproducible after #32394
- Windows desktop: local shell and filesystem bridge hangs indefinitely while non-local tools still work
- [Feature Request] Add a word-wrap toggle to the Codex desktop document viewer
- [Hooks] SubagentStart and SubagentStop are not dispatched for project-defined custom subagents on Windows
- Codex desktop: non-default model effort resets before the first message
- CMD+shift+brackets state reset when clicking
- Add silent mode for recurring automation completion badges
- Older ChatGPT conversations are searchable but do not appear in the new ChatGPT/Codex app sidebar
- Unexpected “Request Blocked” error during authorized regression-fixing task
- ⚠ MCP client for `sites-design-picker` failed to start: MCP startup failed: program not found
- request full-size chat window
- Codex hangs when VS Code is launched from the desktop launcher (/usr/share/code/code) but works when started with code (/usr/bin/code) on Linux Mint
- GitHub plugin skills require gh for capabilities now exposed by the App connector
- App Keeps Crashing With No Error Message
- Add first-class Chat and Study modes with separate runtime contexts
- Upgrading /Permissions to Full Access does not take effect during an active task
- Codex crash issue
- Chats/projects missing in desktop app after update
- Codex Computer Use Refuses to Continue Without Confirmation
- Banked reset disappeared while not resetting usage.
- Windows Codex Desktop 26.707.9981.0 exits during startup without reporting a crash
- Desktop app: delegated/worktree tasks fail to archive with "no rollout found"
- problem bad bad request
- Add an unread-only sidebar filter with a keyboard shortcut
- Codex Desktop crashes when opening a conversation
- Adding credits in Codex macOS 26.707.72221 automatically enables auto refill
- Subagents being launched as same model as parent agent with no change option
- Lost Projects
- Remote control for Codex Desktop is broken - Mac - iOS
- no-active-thread-019f6128-8d16-7a01-b7ac-369c7bae8053
- This content can't be shown - Security message trigger being initiated without any actions that would merit it
- Support pluggable external backends for native subagent tools
- [App][macOS] Selected project folder is ignored when creating a new task
- Codex Desktop: in-app browser tabs are repeatedly disposed/closed and lose Browser Use session ownership
- Desktop delegation report delivered three times after one source emission
- Codex Cloud Code Reviews Cancelling without Completing
- Codex App repeatedly crashes on Windows with error code 3221225786
- Slack plugin OAuth fails with invalid_scope_requested in Codex Desktop
- Codex Desktop: send_message_to_thread requires opening the target task on the local desktop first
- Codex App crashes when submitting a prompt
- Cannot select model and effort on a new chat
- Potential bug: Codex cannot initialize in Dev Containers
- Add supported list/upsert/remove/refresh APIs for remote projects
- app-server thread/start can hang in mcp_manager_init after shell snapshot and poison later starts
- Named subagents intermittently ignore the requested worktree
- codex doctor falsely reports healthy state database corruption inside managed workspace sandbox
- Codex CLI /model picker hides GPT-5.6 when models_cache.json is stale
- ChatGPT - MacOS App - Lost Connection to Projects
- VS Code extension: MCP OAuth completes in browser but connector callback returns 403
- Codex Desktop: runtime refresh restarts app-server after turn/start and leaves turn permanently stuck
- Codex desktop composer intermittently freezes and requires app restart
- Chat list disappeared on the desktop app
- Native Windows sandbox setup scales poorly with writable-root size, making apply_patch take 45–55 seconds
- Markdown preview tab becomes unresponsive after Codex edits the file
- Codex Desktop: Mac local tasks are searchable on Windows but missing from project sidebar
- Windows app: in-app browser crashes and repeated “Reconnecting …/5” delays task execution
- CLI reuses dead Responses WebSocket after network loss during idle, breaking the next turn
- Visualize skill over-triggers on standalone HTML requests and leaks inline layout constraints
- VS Code extension repeatedly spawns git rev-parse --show-toplevel in multi-repository workspace when Codex panel is active
- 26.707.72221 - App freezes immediate when accessing current threads.
- Codex Desktop: remote-compaction capacity error terminalizes one persistent goal while other tasks remain healthy
- VS Code: new empty window cannot send Codex message and shows stale “ChatGPT” project prompt
- Regression disrupting professional organization and workflow
- Expected an ID that begins with 'msg'.
- Filesystem sandbox preparation scales quadratically with permission entries
- Desktop remote control intermittently unavailable after network changes or sleep
- Codex 0.144.1 --strict-config rejects app-managed projects.<path>.sandbox_mode
- App Quits in Windows while codex tries to use inapp headless browser via its cmd
- Add a bounded `/orchestrator <task>` command using native multi-agent tools
- Usage resets were applied to current allowance instead of accumulating
- Add new event to log per LLM request token usage
- Codex Desktop: functions.exec fails with `code-mode host has too many active cells`
- Codex app sidebar navigation can strand the current task without warning
- [Windows 10] DWM Composition handles accumulate after Codex tasks with tool calls
- Chrome plugin discovers open tabs, but `claimTab` rejects every normal site as blocked by "enterprise network policy"
Resolved issues (33)
- Codex CLI TUI repeatedly beeps / misbehaves inside GNU Screen
- Browser Use actions fail with "Codex auth token is unavailable" in API-key mode
- Codex desktop crashes when opening a thread with a 203 MB patch_apply_end deletion event
- VS Code extension: GitHub MCP hits 120s timeouts while direct server probes succeed, then degrades to transport closed/stdin destroyed
- The ChatGPT client is incompatible with Microsoft's OpenAI API key GPT-5.6
- macOS: bundled Chrome plugin fails with `Cannot redefine property: process` in browser-client.mjs
- Codex app Chrome browser-client fails during ESM evaluation: Cannot redefine property: process
- Browser: Bootstrap fails due to Node REPL process shim conflict
- Sidebar webview fails to render (gray/spinner): all vscode-resource asset requests fail with net::ERR_FAILED, no service worker registered
- Trusted Access approval not recognized: account newly flagged and authorized security responses blocked after approval
- IDE extension should log an actionable error when the webview fails with ERR_INSUFFICIENT_RESOURCES
- Codex iOS app slow scrolling often blocking for seconds
- Windows Desktop: brief mouse/input freezes after opening Codex with large sessions directory
- Chrome plugin fails to initialize with `Cannot redefine property: process` on Windows desktop app
- Windows ChatGPT desktop app is a major usability regression for professional users
- Unable to See or Select gpt-5.6-sol, gpt-5.6-terra and gpt-5.6-luna in Windows App
- Codex shows an empty popup and when i click it the chatgpt popup is shown on the right with a long thread.
- Codex Desktop: exec cell hangs for 3,806s after nested shell completed in 0.2s; timeout/yield did not return control
- macOS: Window restore animation stutters when reopening a minimized Codex window with Camera Effects enabled
- Windows ChatGPT/Codex 26.707: ~3.4s orchestration overhead per local tool call after desktop app migration
- Codex in-app browser and Chrome extension wait ~30s on `ab.chatgpt.com` timeouts before normal navigation succeeds
- Windows Desktop: "Finish Windows setup" never completes, preventing sandboxed edits
- Codex Desktop creates .git directories in non-repository workspace folders, breaking Windows Git overlay icons
- CLI resume drops markdown table tail from historical assistant message
- Codex Desktop 26.707.71524: Browser and Chrome plugins fail with `Cannot redefine property: process`
- Codex VS Code extension hangs on loading screen in Remote-SSH, while Codex CLI works
- Either add an opt-in to allow mutations with plan mode enabled, or allow the question tool to be used without plan mode enabled
- Windows desktop: local shell and filesystem bridge hangs indefinitely while non-local tools still work
- Lost Projects
- Codex Desktop 26.707: opening side dialog triggers browser-sidebar rebind loop and React #185 error boundary
- Remote control for Codex Desktop is broken - Mac - iOS
- Expected an ID that begins with 'msg'.
- App Quits in Windows while codex tries to use inapp headless browser via its cmd